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Torsten Bögershausen
4bf256d67a blame: CRLF in the working tree and LF in the repo
A typical setup under Windows is to set core.eol to CRLF, and text
files are marked as "text" in .gitattributes, or core.autocrlf is
set to true.

After 4d4813a5 "git blame" no longer works as expected for such a
set-up.  Every line is annotated as "Not Committed Yet", even though
the working directory is clean.  This is because the commit removed
the conversion in blame.c for all files, with or without CRLF in the
repo.

Having files with CRLF in the repo and core.autocrlf=input is a
temporary situation, and the files, if committed as is, will be
normalized in the repo, which _will_ be a notable change.  Blaming
them with "Not Committed Yet" is the right result.  Revert commit
4d4813a5 which was a misguided attempt to "solve" a non-problem.

Add two test cases in t8003 to verify the correct CRLF conversion.

Suggested-By: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-03 11:00:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3d4a3ffe64 Git 2.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-30 11:25:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d45366e8aa merge: deprecate 'git merge <message> HEAD <commit>' syntax
We had this in "git merge" manual for eternity:

    'git merge' <msg> HEAD <commit>...

    [This] syntax (<msg> `HEAD` <commit>...) is supported for
    historical reasons.  Do not use it from the command line or in
    new scripts.  It is the same as `git merge -m <msg> <commit>...`.

With the update to "git merge" to make it understand what is
recorded in FETCH_HEAD directly, including Octopus merge cases, we
now can rewrite the use of this syntax in "git pull" with a simple
"git merge FETCH_HEAD".

Also there are quite a few fallouts in the test scripts, and it
turns out that "git cvsimport" also uses this old syntax to record
a merge.

Judging from this result, I would not be surprised if dropping the
support of the old syntax broke scripts people have written and been
relying on for the past ten years.  But at least we can start the
deprecation process by throwing a warning message when the syntax is
used.

With luck, we might be able to drop the support in a few years.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:28:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
74e8bc59cb merge: handle FETCH_HEAD internally
The collect_parents() function now is responsible for

 1. parsing the commits given on the command line into a list of
    commits to be merged;

 2. filtering these parents into independent ones; and

 3. optionally calling fmt_merge_msg() via prepare_merge_message()
    to prepare an auto-generated merge log message, using fake
    contents that FETCH_HEAD would have had if these commits were
    fetched from the current repository with "git pull . $args..."

Make "git merge FETCH_HEAD" to be the same as the traditional

    git merge "$(git fmt-merge-msg <.git/FETCH_HEAD)" $commits

invocation of the command in "git pull", where $commits are the ones
that appear in FETCH_HEAD that are not marked as not-for-merge, by
making it do a bit more, specifically:

 - noticing "FETCH_HEAD" is the only "commit" on the command line
   and picking the commits that are not marked as not-for-merge as
   the list of commits to be merged (substitute for step #1 above);

 - letting the resulting list fed to step #2 above;

 - doing the step #3 above, using the contents of the FETCH_HEAD
   instead of fake contents crafted from the list of commits parsed
   in the step #1 above.

Note that this changes the semantics.  "git merge FETCH_HEAD" has
always behaved as if the first commit in the FETCH_HEAD file were
directly specified on the command line, creating a two-way merge
whose auto-generated merge log said "merge commit xyz".  With this
change, if the previous fetch was to grab multiple branches (e.g.
"git fetch $there topic-a topic-b"), the new world order is to
create an octopus, behaving as if "git pull $there topic-a topic-b"
were run.  This is a deliberate change to make that happen, and
can be seen in the changes to t3033 tests.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:27:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
770380156d merge: decide if we auto-generate the message early in collect_parents()
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:26:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1cf32f4d54 merge: make collect_parents() auto-generate the merge message
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:24:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
52fecab20c merge: extract prepare_merge_message() logic out
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:19:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
018b3fbc7e merge: narrow scope of merge_names
In order to pass the list of parents to fmt_merge_msg(), cmd_merge()
uses this strbuf to create something that look like FETCH_HEAD that
describes commits that are being merged.  This is necessary only
when we are creating the merge commit message ourselves, but was
done unconditionally.

Move the variable and the logic to populate it to confine them in a
block that needs them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:19:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
34349dbff8 merge: split reduce_parents() out of collect_parents()
The latter does two separate things:

 - Parse the list of commits on the command line, and formulate the
   list of commits to be merged (including the current HEAD);

 - Compute the list of parents to be recorded in the resulting merge
   commit.

Split the latter into a separate helper function, so that we can
later supply the list commits to be merged from a different source
(namely, FETCH_HEAD).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:19:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0b10b8a3d5 merge: clarify collect_parents() logic
Clarify this small function in three ways.

 - The function initially collects all commits to be merged into a
   commit_list "remoteheads"; the "remotes" pointer always points at
   the tail of this list (either the remoteheads variable itself, or
   the ->next slot of the element at the end of the list) to help
   elongate the list by repeated calls to commit_list_insert().
   Because the new element appended by commit_list_insert() will
   always have its ->next slot NULLed out, there is no need for us
   to assign NULL to *remotes to terminate the list at the end.

 - The variable "head_subsumed" always confused me every time I read
   this code.  What is happening here is that we inspect what the
   caller told us to merge (including the current HEAD) and come up
   with the list of parents to be recorded for the resulting merge
   commit, omitting commits that are ancestor of other commits.
   This filtering may remove the current HEAD from the resulting
   parent list---and we signal that fact with this variable, so that
   we can later record it as the first parent when "--no-ff" is in
   effect.

 - The "parents" list is created for this function by reduce_heads()
   and was not deallocated after its use, even though the loop
   control was written in such a way to allow us to do so by taking
   the "next" element in a separate variable so that it can be used
   in the next-step part of the loop control.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:17:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1016658de3 merge: small leakfix and code simplification
When parsing a merged object name like "foo~20" to formulate a merge
summary "Merge branch foo (early part)", a temporary strbuf is used,
but we forgot to deallocate it when we failed to find the named
branch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:17:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eaa4e59c85 merge: do not check argc to determine number of remote heads
To reject merging multiple commits into an unborn branch, we check
argc, thinking that collect_parents() that reads the remaining
command line arguments from <argc, argv> will give us the same
number of commits as its input, i.e. argc.

Because what we really care about is the number of commits, let the
function run and then make sure it returns only one commit instead.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:17:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1faac1cedc merge: clarify "pulling into void" special case
Instead of having it as one of the three if/elseif/.. case arms,
test the condition and handle this special case upfront.  This makes
it easier to follow the flow of logic.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:17:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7ad39a2784 t5520: test pulling an octopus into an unborn branch
The code comment for "git merge" in builtin/merge.c, we say

    If the merged head is a valid one there is no reason
    to forbid "git merge" into a branch yet to be born.
    We do the same for "git pull".

and t5520 does have an existing test for that behaviour.  However,
there was no test to make sure that 'git pull' to pull multiple
branches into an unborn branch must fail.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:17:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5569113329 t5520: style fixes
Fix style funnies in early part of this test script that checks "git
pull" into an unborn branch.  The primary change is that 'chdir' to
a newly created empty test repository is now protected by being done
in a subshell to make it more robust without having to chdir back to
the original place.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:17:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
00c7e7e7e8 merge: simplify code flow
One of the first things cmd_merge() does is to see if the "--abort"
option is given and run "reset --merge" and exit.  When the control
reaches this point, we know "--abort" was not given.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:17:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9e62316df7 merge: test the top-level merge driver
We seem to have tests for specific merge strategy backends
(e.g. recursive), but not much test coverage for the "git merge"
itself.  As I am planning to update the semantics of merging
"FETCH_HEAD" in such a way that these two

    git pull . topic_a topic_b...

vs.

    git fetch . topic_a topic_b...
    git merge FETCH_HEAD

are truly equivalent, let me add a few test cases to cover the
tricky ones.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 13:14:50 -07:00
Jeff King
df0620108b filter-branch: avoid passing commit message through sed
On some systems (like OS X), if sed encounters input without
a trailing newline, it will silently add it. As a result,
"git filter-branch" on such systems may silently rewrite
commit messages that omit a trailing newline. Even though
this is not something we generate ourselves with "git
commit", it's better for filter-branch to preserve the
original data as closely as possible.

We're using sed here only to strip the header fields from
the commit object. We can accomplish the same thing with a
shell loop. Since shell "read" calls are slow (usually one
syscall per byte), we use "cat" once we've skipped past the
header. Depending on the size of your commit messages, this
is probably faster (you pay the cost to fork, but then read
the data in saner-sized chunks). This idea is shamelessly
stolen from Junio.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 10:01:04 -07:00
Phil Hord
8cbc57ca11 rebase -i: redo tasks that die during cherry-pick
When rebase--interactive processes a task, it removes the item from
the todo list and appends it to another list of executed tasks. If a
pick (this includes squash and fixup) fails before the index has
recorded the changes, take the corresponding item and put it on the todo
list again. Otherwise, the changes introduced by the scheduled commit
would be lost.

That kind of decision is possible since the cherry-pick command
signals why it failed to apply the changes of the given commit. Either
the changes are recorded in the index using a conflict (return value 1)
and rebase does not continue until they are resolved or the changes
are not recorded in the index (return value neither 0 nor 1) and
rebase has to try again with the same task.

Add a test cases for regression testing to the "rebase-interactive"
test suite.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Ruch <bafain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-29 08:49:22 -07:00
Jeff King
92b269f5c5 test-lib: turn on GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT by default
Now that the feature has had time to prove itself, and any
topics in flight have had a chance to clean up any broken
&&-chains, we can flip this feature on by default. This
makes one less thing submitters need to configure or check
before sending their patches.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-28 15:55:51 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
f84df81f65 t7502-commit.sh: fix a broken and-chain
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-28 15:55:51 -07:00
brian m. carlson
baaf233755 connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives
The git_connect function has code to handle plink and tortoiseplink
specially, as they require different command line arguments from
OpenSSH (-P instead of -p for ports; tortoiseplink additionally requires
-batch).  However, the match was done by checking for "plink" anywhere
in the string, which led to a GIT_SSH value containing "uplink" being
treated as an invocation of putty's plink.

Improve the check by looking for "plink" or "tortoiseplink" (or those
names suffixed with ".exe") only in the final component of the path.
This has the downside that a program such as "plink-0.63" would no
longer be recognized, but the increased robustness is likely worth it.
Add tests to cover these cases to avoid regressions.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-28 15:23:12 -07:00
brian m. carlson
d1018c2494 t5601: fix quotation error leading to skipped tests
One of the tests in t5601 used single quotes to delimit an argument
containing spaces.  However, this caused test_expect_success to be
passed three arguments instead of two, which in turn caused the test
name to be treated as a prerequisite instead of a test name.  As there
was no prerequisite called "bracketed hostnames are still ssh", the test
was always skipped.

Because this test was always skipped, the fact that it passed the
arguments in the wrong order was obscured.  Use double quotes inside the
test and reorder the arguments so that the test runs and properly
reflects the arguments that are passed to ssh.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-28 15:23:12 -07:00
brian m. carlson
37ee646e72 connect: simplify SSH connection code path
The code path used in git_connect pushed the majority of the SSH
connection code into an else block, even though the if block returns.
Simplify the code by eliminating the else block, as it is unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-28 15:23:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d93d5d51e3 test: validate prerequistes syntax
Brian Carson noticed that a test piece in t5601 had a pair of single
quotes in the body, which made it into 4 parameter call to
test_expect_success, as if its test title were a prerequisite.

As the prerequisites have a specific syntax (i.e. comma separated
tokens spelled in capital letters, possibly prefixed with ! for
negation), validate them to catch such a mistake in the future.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-28 15:20:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0ab00b9464 Merge branch 'mh/multimail-renewal'
* mh/multimail-renewal:
  Update git-multimail to version 1.0.2
2015-04-28 13:01:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3f5872603d Merge branch 'mg/show-notes-doc'
Documentation fix.

* mg/show-notes-doc:
  rev-list-options.txt: complete sentence about notes matching
2015-04-28 13:00:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b7990520bc Merge branch 'nd/versioncmp-prereleases'
* nd/versioncmp-prereleases:
  git tag: mention versionsort.prereleaseSuffix in manpage
2015-04-28 13:00:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5b9496768f Merge branch 'mg/status-v-v'
* mg/status-v-v:
  status: document the -v/--verbose option
2015-04-28 13:00:18 -07:00
Luke Diamand
e80967b287 git-p4: add failing tests for case-folding p4d
When p4d runs on a case-folding OS, git-p4 can end up getting
very confused. This adds failing tests to demonstrate the problem.

Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-28 12:19:43 -07:00
Luke Diamand
896e700ad9 git-p4: t9814: prevent --chain-lint failure
Use test_lazy_prereq to setup prerequisites for the p4 move
test. This both makes the test simpler and clearer, and also
means it no longer fails the new --chain-lint tests.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-28 12:16:01 -07:00
Jeff King
22946a9426 rebase: silence "git checkout" for noop rebase
When the branch to be rebased is already up to date, we
"git checkout" the branch, print an "up to date" message,
and end the rebase early. However, our checkout may print
"Switched to branch 'foo'" or "Already on 'foo'", even if
the user has asked for "--quiet".

We should avoid printing these messages at all, "--quiet" or
no. Since the rebase is a noop, this checkout can be seen as
optimizing out these other two checkout operations (that
happen in a real rebase):

  1. Moving to the detached HEAD to start the rebase; we
     always feed "-q" to checkout there, and instead rely on
     our own custom message (which respects --quiet).

  2. Finishing a rebase, where we move to the final branch.
     Here we actually use update-ref rather than
     git-checkout, and produce no messages.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-28 11:38:40 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
36bf6d4697 Update git-multimail to version 1.0.2
The only changes are to the README files, most notably the list of
maintainers and the project URL.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-28 11:37:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fb3e7d5515 Sync with 2.3.7 2015-04-27 12:26:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
16018ae5fb Git 2.3.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-27 12:25:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ad34ad614d Merge branch 'tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix' into maint
An earlier update to the parser that disects a URL broke an
address, followed by a colon, followed by an empty string (instead
of the port number), e.g. ssh://example.com:/path/to/repo.

* tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix:
  connect.c: ignore extra colon after hostname
2015-04-27 12:23:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
89ba311df3 Merge branch 'ma/bash-completion-leaking-x' into maint
The completion script (in contrib/) contaminated global namespace
and clobbered on a shell variable $x.

* ma/bash-completion-leaking-x:
  completion: fix global bash variable leak on __gitcompappend
2015-04-27 12:23:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
631f6f1d47 Merge branch 'jc/push-cert' into maint
The "git push --signed" protocol extension did not limit what the
"nonce" that is a server-chosen string can contain or how long it
can be, which was unnecessarily lax.  Limit both the length and the
alphabet to a reasonably small space that can still have enough
entropy.

* jc/push-cert:
  push --signed: tighten what the receiving end can ask to sign
2015-04-27 12:23:50 -07:00
Fredrik Gustafsson
9a35c14d64 Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log message
The `-v` shows a unified diff in the editor to edit the commit
message to help the user to describe the change.  The diff is
stripped and will not become a part of the commit message.

Add a note about this with the `-v` description and slightly modify
the description for the default `--cleanup` mode.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-27 11:32:55 -07:00
Torsten Bögershausen
8eeab92f02 t0027: Add repoMIX and LF_nul
"new safer autocrlf handling":

  - Check if eols in a file are converted at commit, when the file has
    CR (or CRLF) in the repo (technically speaking in the index).
  - Add a test-file repoMIX with mixed line-endings.
  - When converting LF->CRLF or CRLF->LF: check the warnings

checkout_files():

  - Checking out CRLF_nul and checking for eol coversion does not
    make much sense (CRLF will stay CRLF).
  - Use the file LF_nul instead: It is handled a binary in "auto" modes,
    and when declared as text the LF may be replaced with CRLF, depending
    on the configuration.

Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-25 09:41:29 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
9c589d971e status: document the -v/--verbose option
Document `git status -v`, including its new doubled `-vv` form.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-23 18:45:33 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
6eb1401375 RelNotes: wordsmithing
Make many textual tweaks to the 2.4.0 release notes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-23 11:32:08 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
2eac0356b0 RelNotes: refer to the rebase -i "todo list", not "insn sheet"
"Todo list" is the name that is used in the user-facing documentation.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-23 11:32:05 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
37f4bed11b RelNotes: correct name of versionsort.prereleaseSuffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-23 11:29:22 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
64f7a26494 git tag: mention versionsort.prereleaseSuffix in manpage
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-23 11:28:24 -07:00
Vitor Antunes
cd88410618 git-p4: improve client path detection when branches are used
Perforce allows client side file/directory remapping through
the use of the client view definition that is part of the
user's client spec.

To support this functionality while branch detection is
enabled it is important to determine the branch location in
the workspace such that the correct files are patched before
Perforce submission. Perforce provides a command that
facilitates this process: p4 where.

This patch does two things to fix improve file location
detection when git-p4 has branch detection and use of client
spec enabled:

 1. Enable usage of "p4 where" when Perforce branches exist
    in the git repository, even when client specification is
    used. This makes use of the already existing function
    p4Where.

 2. Allow identifying partial matches of the branch's depot
    path while processing the output of "p4 where". For
    robustness, paths will only match if ending in "/...".

Signed-off-by: Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-23 10:17:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
099d2d86a8 ignore: info/exclude should trump core.excludesfile
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude and core.excludesfile (which falls back to
$XDG_HOME/git/ignore) are both ways to override the ignore pattern
lists given by the project in .gitignore files.  The former, which
is per-repository personal preference, should take precedence over
the latter, which is a personal preference default across different
repositories that are accessed from that machine.  The existing
documentation also agrees.

However, the precedence order was screwed up between these two from
the very beginning when 896bdfa2 (add: Support specifying an
excludes file with a configuration variable, 2007-02-27) introduced
core.excludesfile variable.

Noticed-by: Yohei Endo <yoheie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-22 14:31:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
564705c7f0 Git 2.4.0-rc3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-22 13:52:43 -07:00
Jeff King
a0b4507ef7 stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH
When the "git" wrapper is invoked, we prepend the baked-in
exec-path to our PATH, so that any sub-processes we exec
will all find the git-foo commands that match the wrapper
version.

If you invoke git with an absolute path, like:

  /usr/bin/git foo

we also prepend "/usr/bin" to the PATH. This was added long
ago by by 231af83 (Teach the "git" command to handle some
commands internally, 2006-02-26), with the intent that
things would just work if you did something like:

  cd /opt
  tar xzf premade-git-package.tar.gz
  alias git=/opt/git/bin/git

as we would then find all of the related external commands
in /opt/git/bin. I.e., it made git runtime-relocatable,
since at the time of 231af83, we installed all of the git
commands into $(bindir). But these days, that is not enough.
Since f28ac70 (Move all dashed-form commands to libexecdir,
2007-11-28), we do not put commands into $(bindir), and you
actually need to convert "/usr/bin" into "/usr/libexec". And
not just for finding binaries; we want to find $(sharedir),
etc, the same way.  The RUNTIME_PREFIX build knob does this
the right way, by assuming a sane hierarchy rooted at
"$prefix" when we run "$prefix/bin/git", and inferring
"$prefix/libexec/git-core", etc.

So this feature (prepending the argv[0] dirname to the PATH)
is broken for providing a runtime prefix, and has been for
many years. Does it do anything for other cases?

For the "git" wrapper itself, as well as any commands
shipped by "git", the answer is no. Those are already in
git's exec-path, which is consulted first. For third-party
commands which you've dropped into the same directory, it
does include them. So if you do

  cd /opt
  tar xzf git-built-specifically-for-opt-git.tar.gz
  cp third-party/git-foo /opt/git/bin/git-foo
  alias git=/opt/git/bin/git

it does mean that we will find the third-party "git-foo",
even if you do not put /opt/git/bin into your $PATH. But
the flipside of this is that we will bump the precedence of
_other_ third-party tools that happen to be in the same
directory as git. For example, consider this setup:

  1. Git is installed by the system in /usr/bin. There are
     other system utilities in /usr/bin. E.g., a system
     "vi".

  2. The user installs tools they prefer in /usr/local/bin.
     E.g., vim with a "vi" symlink. They set their PATH to
     /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin to prefer their custom tools.

  3. Running /usr/bin/git puts "/usr/bin" at the front of
     their PATH. When git invokes the editor on behalf of
     the user, they get the system vi, not their normal vim.

There are other variants of this, including overriding
system ruby and python (which is quite common using tools
like "rvm" and "virtualenv", which use relocatable
hierarchies and $PATH settings to get a consistent
environment).

Given that the main motivation for git placing the argv[0]
dirname into the PATH has been broken for years, that the
remaining cases are obscure and unlikely (and easily fixed
by the user just setting up their $PATH sanely), and that
the behavior is hurting real, reasonably common use cases,
it's not worth continuing to do so.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-22 13:41:31 -07:00
Jeff King
ed178ef13a stash: require a clean index to apply
If you have staged contents in your index and run "stash
apply", we may hit a conflict and put new entries into the
index. Recovering to your original state is difficult at
that point, because tools like "git reset --keep" will blow
away anything staged.  We can make this safer by refusing to
apply when there are staged changes.

It's possible we could provide better tooling here, as "git
stash apply" should be writing only conflicts to the index
(so we know that any stage-0 entries are potentially
precious). But it is the odd duck; most "mergy" commands
will update the index for cleanly merged entries, and it is
not worth updating our tooling to support this use case
which is unlikely to be of interest (besides which, we would
still need to block a dirty index for "stash apply --index",
since that case _would_ be ambiguous).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-22 13:38:58 -07:00