"git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not introduce
any change in the original history.
By Neil Horman
* nh/empty-rebase:
git-rebase: add keep_empty flag
git-cherry-pick: Add test to validate new options
git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits option
git-cherry-pick: add allow-empty option
Avoid writing out unreachable objects as loose objects when repacking,
if such loose objects will immediately pruned due to its age anyway.
By Jeff King
* jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack:
gc: use argv-array for sub-commands
argv-array: add a new "pushl" method
argv-array: refactor empty_argv initialization
gc: do not explode objects which will be immediately pruned
Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
final commit correctly.
By Junio C Hamano (4) and Michał Kiedrowicz (1)
* jc/merge-reduce-parents-early:
fmt-merge-msg: discard needless merge parents
builtin/merge.c: reduce parents early
builtin/merge.c: collect other parents early
builtin/merge.c: remove "remoteheads" global variable
merge tests: octopus with redundant parents
The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name can be
both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can never be a path
in the context of the command.
The issue the patch addresses is real, but the way it is implemented felt
unnecessarily invasive a bit. It may be cleaner for this caller to add
the "--" to the end of the argv_array it passes to setup_revisions().
By Clemens Buchacher
* cb/cherry-pick-rev-path-confusion:
cherry-pick: do not expect file arguments
The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch
ref.
By Marc Branchaud
* mb/fetch-call-a-non-branch-a-ref:
fetch: describe new refs based on where it came from
fetch: Give remote_ref to update_local_ref() as well
The git-cherry-pick --allow-empty command by default only preserves empty
commits that were originally empty, i.e only those commits for which
<commit>^{tree} and <commit>^^{tree} are equal. By default commits which are
non-empty, but were made empty by the inclusion of a prior commit on the current
history are filtered out. This option allows us to override that behavior and
include redundant commits as empty commits in the change history.
Note that this patch changes the default behavior of git cherry-pick slightly.
Prior to this patch all commits in a cherry-pick sequence were applied and git
commit was run. The implication here was that, if a commit was redundant, and
the commit did not trigger the fast forward logic, the git commit operation, and
therefore the git cherry-pick operation would fail, displaying the cherry pick
advice (i.e. run git commit --allow-empty). With this patch however, such
redundant commits are automatically skipped without stopping, unless
--keep-redundant-commits is specified, in which case, they are automatically
applied as empty commits.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references, the
command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper e.g. remote-curl,
may fail to hold all of them. Now such an internal invocation can feed
the references through the standard input of "fetch-pack".
By Ivan Todoroski
* it/fetch-pack-many-refs:
remote-curl: main test case for the OS command line overflow
fetch-pack: test cases for the new --stdin option
remote-curl: send the refs to fetch-pack on stdin
fetch-pack: new --stdin option to read refs from stdin
"git push --recurse-submodules" learns to optionally look into the
histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them out.
By Heiko Voigt
* hv/submodule-recurse-push:
push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand option
Refactor submodule push check to use string list instead of integer
Teach revision walking machinery to walk multiple times sequencially
"git fetch" that recurses into submodules on demand did not check if
it needs to go into submodules when non branches (most notably, tags)
are fetched.
By Jens Lehmann
* jl/maint-submodule-recurse-fetch:
submodules: recursive fetch also checks new tags for submodule commits
"git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin since we
stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2 era.
* jc/maint-blame-minimal:
blame: accept --need-minimal
Valgrind reports quite a lot of discarded memory inside apply.
Fix them, audit and document the buffer ownership rules.
By Junio C Hamano (8) and Jared Hance (1)
* jh/apply-free-patch:
apply: document buffer ownership rules across functions
apply: tighten constness of line buffer
apply: drop unused macro
apply: free unused fragments for submodule patch
apply: free patch->result
apply: release memory for fn_table
apply: free patch->{def,old,new}_name fields
apply: rename free_patch() to free_patch_list()
apply: do not leak patches and fragments
"git rev-parse --show-prefix" emitted nothing when run at the
top-level of the working tree, while "git rev-parse --show-cdup" gave
an empty line. Make them consistent.
By Ross Lagerwall
* rl/show-empty-prefix:
rev-parse --show-prefix: add in trailing newline
Adds some subcommands that were not listed in "git remote --help"
usage strings.
As an independent follow-up, we may want to rethink how the overall
usage string and subcommand usage strings are maintained.
By Michael Schubert
* ms/remote-usage-string:
remote: update builtin usage
Break down the cases in which "git push" fails due to non-ff into
three categories, and give separate advise messages for each case.
By Christopher Tiwald (2) and Jeff King (1)
* ct/advise-push-default:
Fix httpd tests that broke when non-ff push advice changed
clean up struct ref's nonfastforward field
push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors
Fix broken 'push to upstream' implementation. "git push $there" without
refspec, when the current branch is set to push to a remote different from
$there, used to push to $there using the upstream information to a remote
unreleated to $there.
* jc/push-upstream-sanity:
push: error out when the "upstream" semantics does not make sense
The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors
involved in the side topic you are merging.
* jc/fmt-merge-msg-people:
fmt-merge-msg: show those involved in a merged series
This is used by "git pull" to construct a merge message from list of
remote refs. When pulling redundant set of refs, however, it did not
filter them even though the merge itself discards them as unnecessary.
Teach the command to do the same for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-gc executes many sub-commands. The argument list for
some of these is constant, but for others we add more
arguments at runtime. The latter is implemented by allocating
a constant extra number of NULLs, and either using a custom
append function, or just referencing unused slots by number.
As of commit 7e52f56, which added two new arguments, it is
possible to exceed the constant number of slots for "repack"
by running "git gc --aggressive", causing "git gc" to die.
This patch converts all of the static argv lists to use
argv-array. In addition to fixing the overflow caused by
7e52f56, it has a few advantages:
1. We can drop the custom append function (which,
incidentally, had an off-by-one error exacerbating the
static limit).
2. We can drop the ugly magic numbers used when adding
arguments to "prune".
3. Adding further arguments will be easier; you can just
add new "push" calls without worrying about increasing
any static limits.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of waiting until we record the parents of resulting merge, reduce
redundant parents (including our HEAD) immediately after reading them.
The change to t7602 illustrates the essence of the effect of this change.
The octopus merge strategy used to be fed with redundant commits only to
discard them as "up-to-date", but we no longer feed such redundant commits
to it and the affected test degenerates to a regular two-head merge.
And obviously the known-to-be-broken test in t6028 is now fixed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the code around to populate remoteheads list early in the process
before any decision regarding twohead vs octopus and fast-forwardness is
made.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
update_local_ref() used to say "[new branch]" when we stored a new ref
outside refs/tags/ hierarchy, but the message is more about what we
fetched, so use the refname at the origin to make that decision.
Also, only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/.
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This way, the function can look at the remote side to adjust the
informational message it gives.
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git commit --template F" errors out because the user did not touch
the message, it claimed that it aborts due to "empty message", which was
utterly wrong.
By Junio C Hamano (4) and Adam Monsen (1)
* jc/commit-unedited-template:
Documentation/git-commit: rephrase the "initial-ness" of templates
git-commit.txt: clarify -t requires editing message
commit: rephrase the error when user did not touch templated log message
commit: do not trigger bogus "has templated message edited" check
t7501: test the right kind of breakage
Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up tracking.
Also "branch" learns "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message.
By Jeff King
* jk/branch-quiet:
teach "git branch" a --quiet option
checkout: suppress tracking message with "-q"
Forbids rename detection logic from matching two empty files as renames
during merge-recursive to prevent mismerges.
By Jeff King
* jk/diff-no-rename-empty:
merge-recursive: don't detect renames of empty files
teach diffcore-rename to optionally ignore empty content
make is_empty_blob_sha1 available everywhere
drop casts from users EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN
"git commit --author=$name" did not tell the name that was being recorded
in the resulting commit to hooks, even though it does do so when the end
user overrode the authorship via the "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" environment
variable.
* jc/commit-hook-authorship:
commit: pass author/committer info to hooks
t7503: does pre-commit-hook learn authorship?
ident.c: add split_ident_line() to parse formatted ident line
Use API to read blob data in smaller chunks in more places to reduce the
memory footprint.
By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (6) and Junio C Hamano (1)
* nd/stream-more:
update-server-info: respect core.bigfilethreshold
fsck: use streaming API for writing lost-found blobs
show: use streaming API for showing blobs
parse_object: avoid putting whole blob in core
cat-file: use streaming API to print blobs
Add more large blob test cases
streaming: make streaming-write-entry to be more reusable
If a commit-ish passed to cherry-pick or revert happens to have a file
of the same name, git complains that the argument is ambiguous and
advises to use '--'. To make things worse, the '--' argument is removed
by parse_options, und so passing '--' has no effect.
Instead, always interpret cherry-pick/revert arguments as revisions.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 88a21979c (fetch/pull: recurse into submodules when necessary) all
fetched commits are examined if they contain submodule changes (unless
configuration or command line options inhibit that). If a newly recorded
submodule commit is not present in the submodule, a fetch is run inside
it to download that commit.
Checking new refs was done in an else branch where it wasn't executed for
tags. This normally isn't a problem because tags are only fetched with
the branches they live on, then checking the new commits in the fetched
branches for submodule commits will also process all tags. But when a
specific tag is fetched (or the refspec contains refs/tags/) commits only
reachable by tags won't be searched for submodule commits, which is a bug.
Fix that by moving the code outside the if/else construct to handle new
tags just like any other ref. The performance impact of adding tags that
most of the time lie on a branch which is checked anyway for new submodule
commit should be minimal, as since 6859de4 (fetch: avoid quadratic loop
checking for updated submodules) all ref-tips are collected first and then
fed to a single rev-list.
Spotted-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In general, the private functions in this file were not very
much documented; even though what each of them do is reasonably
self explanatory, the ownership rules for various buffers and
data structures were not very obvious.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These point into a single line in the patch text we read from
the input, and they are not used to modify it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git cherry-pick fails when picking a non-ff commit that is empty. The advice
given with the failure is that a git-commit --allow-empty should be issued to
explicitly add the empty commit during the cherry pick. This option allows a
user to specify before hand that they want to keep the empty commit. This
eliminates the need to issue both a cherry pick and a commit operation.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Between v1.7.1 and v1.7.2, 582aa00bdf switched the default "diff"
invocation not to use XDF_NEED_MINIMAL, but this breaks "git blame"
rather badly.
Allow the command line option to ask for an extra careful matching.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we pack everything into one big pack with "git repack
-Ad", any unreferenced objects in to-be-deleted packs are
exploded into loose objects, with the intent that they will
be examined and possibly cleaned up by the next run of "git
prune".
Since the exploded objects will receive the mtime of the
pack from which they come, if the source pack is old, those
loose objects will end up pruned immediately. In that case,
it is much more efficient to skip the exploding step
entirely for these objects.
This patch teaches pack-objects to receive the expiration
information and avoid writing these objects out. It also
teaches "git gc" to pass the value of gc.pruneexpire to
repack (which in turn learns to pass it along to
pack-objects) so that this optimization happens
automatically during "git gc" and "git gc --auto".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Print out a trailing newline when --show-prefix is run with cwd
at the top level of the tree which results in an empty prefix.
Behavior is now like --show-cdup.
Fixes an expected failure in t1501.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add missing options "--tags|--no-tags" and "--push".
Signed-off-by: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/cache-tree:
t0090: be prepared that 'wc -l' writes leading blanks
reset: update cache-tree data when appropriate
commit: write cache-tree data when writing index anyway
Refactor cache_tree_update idiom from commit
Test the current state of the cache-tree optimization
Add test-scrap-cache-tree
The user can say "git push" without specifying any refspec. When using
the "upstream" semantics via the push.default configuration, the user
wants to update the "upstream" branch of the current branch, which is the
branch at a remote repository the current branch is set to integrate with,
with this command.
However, there are cases that such a "git push" that uses the "upstream"
semantics does not make sense:
- The current branch does not have branch.$name.remote configured. By
definition, "git push" that does not name where to push to will not
know where to push to. The user may explicitly say "git push $there",
but again, by definition, no branch at repository $there is set to
integrate with the current branch in this case and we wouldn't know
which remote branch to update.
- The current branch does have branch.$name.remote configured, but it
does not specify branch.$name.merge that names what branch at the
remote this branch integrates with. "git push" knows where to push in
this case (or the user may explicitly say "git push $remote" to tell us
where to push), but we do not know which remote branch to update.
- The current branch does have its remote and upstream branch configured,
but the user said "git push $there", where $there is not the remote
named by "branch.$name.remote". By definition, no branch at repository
$there is set to integrate with the current branch in this case, and
this push is not meant to update any branch at the remote repository
$there.
The first two cases were already checked correctly, but the third case was
not checked and we ended up updating the branch named branch.$name.merge
at repository $there, which was totally bogus.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a remote repo has too many tags (or branches), cloning it over the
smart HTTP transport can fail because remote-curl.c puts all the refs
from the remote repo on the fetch-pack command line. This can make the
command line longer than the global OS command line limit, causing
fetch-pack to fail.
This is especially a problem on Windows where the command line limit is
orders of magnitude shorter than Linux. There are already real repos out
there that msysGit cannot clone over smart HTTP due to this problem.
Here is an easy way to trigger this problem:
git init too-many-refs
cd too-many-refs
echo bla > bla.txt
git add .
git commit -m test
sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
tag=$(perl -e 'print "bla" x 30')
for i in `seq 50000`; do
echo $sha refs/tags/$tag-$i >> .git/packed-refs
done
Then share this repo over the smart HTTP protocol and try cloning it:
$ git clone http://localhost/.../too-many-refs/.git
Cloning into 'too-many-refs'...
fatal: cannot exec 'fetch-pack': Argument list too long
50k tags is obviously an absurd number, but it is required to
demonstrate the problem on Linux because it has a much more generous
command line limit. On Windows the clone fails with as little as 500
tags in the above loop, which is getting uncomfortably close to the
number of tags you might see in real long lived repos.
This is not just theoretical, msysGit is already failing to clone our
company repo due to this. It's a large repo converted from CVS, nearly
10 years of history.
Four possible solutions were discussed on the Git mailing list (in no
particular order):
1) Call fetch-pack multiple times with smaller batches of refs.
This was dismissed as inefficient and inelegant.
2) Add option --refs-fd=$n to pass a an fd from where to read the refs.
This was rejected because inheriting descriptors other than
stdin/stdout/stderr through exec() is apparently problematic on Windows,
plus it would require changes to the run-command API to open extra
pipes.
3) Add option --refs-from=$tmpfile to pass the refs using a temp file.
This was not favored because of the temp file requirement.
4) Add option --stdin to pass the refs on stdin, one per line.
In the end this option was chosen as the most efficient and most
desirable from scripting perspective.
There was however a small complication when using stdin to pass refs to
fetch-pack. The --stateless-rpc option to fetch-pack also uses stdin for
communication with the remote server.
If we are going to sneak refs on stdin line by line, it would have to be
done very carefully in the presence of --stateless-rpc, because when
reading refs line by line we might read ahead too much data into our
buffer and eat some of the remote protocol data which is also coming on
stdin.
One way to solve this would be to refactor get_remote_heads() in
fetch-pack.c to accept a residual buffer from our stdin line parsing
above, but this function is used in several places so other callers
would be burdened by this residual buffer interface even when most of
them don't need it.
In the end we settled on the following solution:
If --stdin is specified without --stateless-rpc, fetch-pack would read
the refs from stdin one per line, in a script friendly format.
However if --stdin is specified together with --stateless-rpc,
fetch-pack would read the refs from stdin in packetized format
(pkt-line) with a flush packet terminating the list of refs. This way we
can read the exact number of bytes that we need from stdin, and then
get_remote_heads() can continue reading from the same fd without losing
a single byte of remote protocol data.
This way the --stdin option only loses generality and scriptability when
used together with --stateless-rpc, which is not easily scriptable
anyway because it also uses pkt-line when talking to the remote server.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Todoroski <grnch@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the user exited editor without editing the commit log template given
by "git commit -t <template>", the commit was aborted (correct) with an
error message that said "due to empty commit message" (incorrect).
This was because the original template support was done by piggybacking on
the check to detect an empty log message. Split the codepaths into two
independent checks to clarify the error.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "-t template" and "-F msg" options are both given (or worse yet,
there is "commit.template" configuration but a message is given in some
other way), the documentation says that template is ignored. However,
the "has the user edited the message?" check still used the contents of
the template file as the basis of the emptyness check.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using this option git will search for all submodules that
have changed in the revisions to be send. It will then try to
push the currently checked out branch of each submodule.
This helps when a user has finished working on a change which
involves submodules and just wants to push everything in one go.
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We simply discarded the fragments that we are not going to use upon seeing
a patch to update the submodule commit bound at path that we have not
checked out.
Free these fragments, not to leak them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
v1.7.9-8-g270a344 (config: stop using config_exclusive_filename) replaced
config_exclusive_filename with given_config_file. In one case this
resulted in a self-assignment, which is reported by clang as a warning.
Remove the useless code.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
