The start-up sequence of "git" needs to figure out some configured
settings before it finds and set itself up in the location of the
repository and was quite messy due to its "chicken-and-egg" nature.
The code has been restructured.
* js/early-config:
setup.c: mention unresolved problems
t1309: document cases where we would want early config not to die()
setup_git_directory_gently_1(): avoid die()ing
t1309: test read_early_config()
read_early_config(): really discover .git/
read_early_config(): avoid .git/config hack when unneeded
setup: make read_early_config() reusable
setup: introduce the discover_git_directory() function
setup_git_directory_1(): avoid changing global state
setup: prepare setup_discovered_git_dir() for the root directory
setup_git_directory(): use is_dir_sep() helper
t7006: replace dubious test
Our source code has used the SHA1_HEADER cpp macro after "#include"
in the C code to switch among the SHA-1 implementations. Instead,
list the exact header file names and switch among implementations
using "#ifdef BLK_SHA1/#include "block-sha1/sha1.h"/.../#endif";
this helps some IDE tools.
* bc/sha1-header-selection-with-cpp-macros:
hash.h: move SHA-1 implementation selection into a header file
"git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a
few strings were left as translatable by mistake.
* mg/status-porcelain-no-i18n:
git-status: make porcelain more robust
"git add -p <pathspec>" unnecessarily expanded the pathspec to a
list of individual files that matches the pathspec by running "git
ls-files <pathspec>", before feeding it to "git diff-index" to see
which paths have changes, because historically the pathspec
language supported by "diff-index" was weaker. These days they are
equivalent and there is no reason to internally expand it. This
helps both performance and avoids command line argument limit on
some platforms.
* jk/add-i-use-pathspecs:
add--interactive: do not expand pathspecs with ls-files
"Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates
response, which has been fixed.
* jk/http-walker-buffer-underflow-fix:
http-walker: fix buffer underflow processing remote alternates
The pathspec mechanism learned to further limit the paths that
match the pattern to those that have specified attributes attached
via the gitattributes mechanism.
* bw/attr-pathspec:
pathspec: allow escaped query values
pathspec: allow querying for attributes
"git tag --contains" used to (ab)use the object bits to keep track
of the state of object reachability without clearing them after
use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab
facility.
* jk/ref-filter-flags-cleanup:
ref-filter: use separate cache for contains_tag_algo
ref-filter: die on parse_commit errors
ref-filter: use contains_result enum consistently
ref-filter: move ref_cbdata definition into ref-filter.c
From a working tree of a repository, a new option of "rev-parse"
lets you ask if the repository is used as a submodule of another
project, and where the root level of the working tree of that
project (i.e. your superproject) is.
* sb/rev-parse-show-superproject-root:
rev-parse: add --show-superproject-working-tree
Picking two versions of Git and running tests to make sure the
older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become
possible.
* jk/interop-test:
t/interop: add test of old clients against modern git-daemon
t: add an interoperability test harness
The experimental "split index" feature has gained a few
configuration variables to make it easier to use.
* cc/split-index-config: (22 commits)
Documentation/git-update-index: explain splitIndex.*
Documentation/config: add splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire
read-cache: use freshen_shared_index() in read_index_from()
read-cache: refactor read_index_from()
t1700: test shared index file expiration
read-cache: unlink old sharedindex files
config: add git_config_get_expiry() from gc.c
read-cache: touch shared index files when used
sha1_file: make check_and_freshen_file() non static
Documentation/config: add splitIndex.maxPercentChange
t1700: add tests for splitIndex.maxPercentChange
read-cache: regenerate shared index if necessary
config: add git_config_get_max_percent_split_change()
Documentation/git-update-index: talk about core.splitIndex config var
Documentation/config: add information for core.splitIndex
t1700: add tests for core.splitIndex
update-index: warn in case of split-index incoherency
read-cache: add and then use tweak_split_index()
split-index: add {add,remove}_split_index() functions
config: add git_config_get_split_index()
...
Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various
operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when
seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault.
... and then to down to 'maint'.
* js/realpath-pathdup-fix:
real_pathdup(): fix callsites that wanted it to die on error
t1501: demonstrate NULL pointer access with invalid GIT_WORK_TREE
Code clean-up and a string truncation fix.
* mm/two-more-xstrfmt:
bisect_next_all: convert xsnprintf to xstrfmt
stop_progress_msg: convert xsnprintf to xstrfmt
The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data
structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems.
* vn/line-log-memcpy-size-fix:
line-log: use COPY_ARRAY to fix mis-sized memcpy
The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there
are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer
has been fixed.
* ax/line-log-range-merge-fix:
line-log.c: prevent crash during union of too many ranges
The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths
selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p"
directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and
"add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been
fixed.
* jk/add-i-patch-do-prompt:
add--interactive: fix missing file prompt for patch mode with "-i"
When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.
* jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect:
http: attempt updating base URL only if no error
Reduce authentication round-trip over HTTP when the server supports
just a single authentication method.
* jk/http-auth:
http: add an "auto" mode for http.emptyauth
http: restrict auth methods to what the server advertises
Many developers use functionality in their editors that allows for quick
syntax checks, including warning about questionable constructs. This
functionality allows rapid development with fewer errors. However, such
functionality generally does not allow the specification of
project-specific defines or command-line options.
Since the SHA1_HEADER include is not defined in such a case,
developers see spurious errors when using these tools. Furthermore,
there are known implementations of "cc" whose '#include' is unhappy
with this construct.
Instead of using SHA1_HEADER, create a hash.h header and use #if
and #elif to select the desired header. Have the Makefile pass an
appropriate option to help the header select the right implementation to
use.
[jc: make BLK_SHA1 the fallback default as discussed on list,
e.g. <20170314201424.vccij5z2ortq4a4o@sigill.intra.peff.net>; also
remove SHA1_HEADER and SHA1_HEADER_SQ that are no longer used].
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch --list" takes the "--abbrev" and "--no-abbrev" options
to control the output of the object name in its "-v"(erbose)
output, but a recent update started ignoring them; this fixes it
before the breakage reaches to any released version.
* kn/ref-filter-branch-list:
branch: honor --abbrev/--no-abbrev in --list mode
"git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock
when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed.
* jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix:
send-pack: report signal death of pack-objects
send-pack: read "unpack" status even on pack-objects failure
send-pack: improve unpack-status error messages
send-pack: use skip_prefix for parsing unpack status
send-pack: extract parsing of "unpack" response
receive-pack: fix deadlock when we cannot create tmpdir
Recent versions of Git treats http alternates (used in dumb http
transport) just like HTTP redirects and requires the client to
enable following it, due to security concerns. But we forgot to
give a warning when we decide not to honor the alternates.
* ew/http-alternates-as-redirects-warning:
http: release strbuf on disabled alternates
http: inform about alternates-as-redirects behavior
"git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that
becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty.
* dp/filter-branch-prune-empty:
p7000: add test for filter-branch with --prune-empty
filter-branch: fix --prune-empty on parentless commits
t7003: ensure --prune-empty removes entire branch when applicable
t7003: ensure --prune-empty can prune root commit
The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so
old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not
so ancient.
* jt/perf-updates:
t/perf: add fallback for pre-bin-wrappers versions of git
t/perf: use $MODERN_GIT for all repo-copying steps
t/perf: export variable used in other blocks
"git fetch" that requests a commit by object name, when the other
side does not allow such an request, failed without much
explanation.
* mm/fetch-show-error-message-on-unadvertised-object:
fetch-pack: add specific error for fetching an unadvertised object
fetch_refs_via_pack: call report_unmatched_refs
fetch-pack: move code to report unmatched refs to a function
"git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the
code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in
disambiguating.
* jk/interpret-branch-name:
checkout: restrict @-expansions when finding branch
strbuf_check_ref_format(): expand only local branches
branch: restrict @-expansions when deleting
t3204: test git-branch @-expansion corner cases
interpret_branch_name: allow callers to restrict expansions
strbuf_branchname: add docstring
strbuf_branchname: drop return value
interpret_branch_name: move docstring to header file
interpret_branch_name(): handle auto-namelen for @{-1}
A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where
they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account).
* ab/cond-skip-tests:
gitweb tests: skip tests when we don't have Time::HiRes
gitweb tests: change confusing "skip_all" phrasing
cvs tests: skip tests that call "cvs commit" when running as root
During the review of the `early-config` patch series, two issues
have been identified that have been with us forever. Mark the
identified problems for later so that we do not forget them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King came up with a couple examples that demonstrate how the new
read_early_config() that looks harder for the current .git/ directory
could die() in an undesirable way.
Let's add those cases to the test script, to document what we would like
to happen when early config encounters problems.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function now has a new caller in addition to setup_git_directory():
the newly introduced discover_git_directory(). That function wants to
discover the current .git/ directory, and in case of a corrupted one
simply pretend that there is none to be found.
Example: if a stale .git file exists in the parent directory, and the
user calls `git -p init`, we want Git to simply *not* read any
repository config for the pager (instead of aborting with a message that
the .git file is corrupt).
Let's actually pretend that there was no GIT_DIR to be found in that case
when being called from discover_git_directory(), but keep the previous
behavior (i.e. to die()) for the setup_git_directory() case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
So far, we had no explicit tests of that function.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier, we punted and simply assumed that we are in the top-level
directory of the project, and that there is no .git file but a .git/
directory so that we can read directly from .git/config.
However, that is not necessarily true. We may be in a subdirectory. Or
.git may be a gitfile. Or the environment variable GIT_DIR may be set.
To remedy this situation, we just refactored the way
setup_git_directory() discovers the .git/ directory, to make it
reusable, and more importantly, to leave all global variables and the
current working directory alone.
Let's discover the .git/ directory correctly in read_early_config() by
using that new function.
This fixes 4 known breakages in t7006.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
So far, we only look whether the startup_info claims to have seen a
git_dir.
However, do_git_config_sequence() (and consequently the
git_config_with_options() call used by read_early_config() asks the
have_git_dir() function whether we have a .git/ directory, which in turn
also looks at git_dir and at the environment variable GIT_DIR. And when
this is the case, the repository config is handled already, so we do not
have to do that again explicitly.
Let's just use the same function, have_git_dir(), to determine whether we
have to handle .git/config explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pager configuration needs to be read early, possibly before
discovering any .git/ directory.
Let's not hide this function in pager.c, but make it available to other
callers.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We modified the setup_git_directory_gently_1() function earlier to make
it possible to discover the GIT_DIR without changing global state.
However, it is still a bit cumbersome to use if you only need to figure
out the (possibly absolute) path of the .git/ directory. Let's just
provide a convenient wrapper function with an easier signature that
*just* discovers the .git/ directory.
We will use it in a subsequent patch to fix the early config.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For historical reasons, Git searches for the .git/ directory (or the
.git file) by changing the working directory successively to the parent
directory of the current directory, until either anything was found or
until a ceiling or a mount point is hit.
Further global state may be changed in case a .git/ directory was found.
We do have a use case, though, where we would like to find the .git/
directory without having any global state touched, though: when we read
the early config e.g. for the pager or for alias expansion.
Let's just move all of code that changes any global state out of the
function `setup_git_directory_gently_1()` into
`setup_git_directory_gently()`.
In subsequent patches, we will use the _1() function in a new
`discover_git_directory()` function that we will then use for the early
config code.
Note: the new loop is a *little* tricky, as we have to handle the root
directory specially: we cannot simply strip away the last component
including the slash, as the root directory only has that slash. To remedy
that, we introduce the `min_offset` variable that holds the minimal length
of an absolute path, and using that to special-case the root directory,
including an early exit before trying to find the parent of the root
directory.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, the offset parameter (indicating what part of the cwd
parameter corresponds to the current directory after discovering the
.git/ directory) is set to 0 when we are running in the root directory.
However, in the next patches we will avoid changing the current working
directory while searching for the .git/ directory, meaning that the
offset corresponding to the root directory will have to be 1 to reflect
that this directory is characterized by the path "/" (and not "").
So let's make sure that setup_discovered_git_directory() only tries to
append the trailing slash to non-root directories.
Note: the setup_bare_git_directory() does not need a corresponding
change, as it does not want to return a prefix.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we want to get the list of modified files, we first
expand any user-provided pathspecs with "ls-files", and then
feed the resulting list of paths as arguments to
"diff-index" and "diff-files". If your pathspec expands into
a large number of paths, you may run into one of two
problems:
1. The OS may complain about the size of the argument
list, and refuse to run. For example:
$ (ulimit -s 128 && git add -p drivers)
Can't exec "git": Argument list too long at .../git-add--interactive line 177.
Died at .../git-add--interactive line 177.
That's on the linux.git repository, which has about 20K
files in the "drivers" directory (none of them modified
in this case). The "ulimit -s" trick is necessary to
show the problem on Linux even for such a gigantic set
of paths. Other operating systems have much smaller
limits (e.g., a real-world case was seen with only 5K
files on OS X).
2. Even when it does work, it's really slow. The pathspec
code is not optimized for huge numbers of paths. Here's
the same case without the ulimit:
$ time git add -p drivers
No changes.
real 0m16.559s
user 0m53.140s
sys 0m0.220s
We can improve this by skipping "ls-files" completely, and
just feeding the original pathspecs to the diff commands.
This solution was discussed in 2010:
http://public-inbox.org/git/20100105041438.GB12574@coredump.intra.peff.net/
but at the time the diff code's pathspecs were more
primitive than those used by ls-files (e.g., they did not
support globs). Making the change would have caused a
user-visible regression, so we didn't.
Since then, the pathspec code has been unified, and the diff
commands natively understand pathspecs like '*.c'.
This patch implements that solution. That skips the
argument-list limits, and the result runs much faster:
$ time git add -p drivers
No changes.
real 0m0.149s
user 0m0.116s
sys 0m0.080s
There are two new tests. The first just exercises the
globbing behavior to confirm that we are not causing a
regression there. The second checks the actual argument
behavior using GIT_TRACE. We _could_ do it with the "ulimit
-s" trick, as above. But that would mean the test could only
run where "ulimit -s" works. And tests of that sort are
expensive, because we have to come up with enough files to
actually bust the limit (we can't just shrink the "128" down
infinitely, since it is also the in-program stack size).
Finally, two caveats and possibilities for future work:
a. This fixes one argument-list expansion, but there may
be others. In fact, it's very likely that if you run
"git add -i" and select a large number of modified
files that the script would try to feed them all to a
single git command.
In practice this is probably fine. The real issue here
is that the argument list was growing with the _total_
number of files, not the number of modified or selected
files.
b. If the repository contains filenames with literal wildcard
characters (e.g., "foo*"), the original code expanded
them via "ls-files" and then fed those wildcard names
to "diff-index", which would have treated them as
wildcards. This was a bug, which is now fixed (though
unless you really go through some contortions with
":(literal)", it's likely that your original pathspec
would match whatever the accidentally-expanded wildcard
would anyway).
So this takes us one step closer to working correctly
with files whose names contain wildcard characters, but
it's likely that others remain (e.g., if "git add -i"
feeds the selected paths to "git add").
Reported-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Reported-by: Mislav Marohnić <mislav.marohnic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git status provides a porcelain mode for porcelain writers with a
supposedly stable (plumbing) interface.
7a76c28ff2 ("status: disable translation when --porcelain is used", 2014-03-20)
made sure that ahead/behind info is not translated (i.e. is stable).
Make sure that the remaining two strings (initial commit, detached head)
are stable, too.
These changes are for the v1 porcelain interface. While we do have a perfectly
stable v2 porcelain interface now, some tools (such as
powerline-gitstatus) are written against v1 and profit from fixing v1
without any changes on their side.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In our own .gitattributes file we have attributes such as:
*.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space
When querying for attributes we want to be able to ask for the exact
value, i.e.
git ls-files :(attr:whitespace=indent,trail,space)
should work, but the commas are used in the attr magic to introduce
the next attr, such that this query currently fails with
fatal: Invalid pathspec magic 'trail' in ':(attr:whitespace=indent,trail,space)'
This change allows escaping characters by a backslash, such that the query
git ls-files :(attr:whitespace=indent\,trail\,space)
will match all path that have the value "indent,trail,space" for the
whitespace attribute. To accomplish this, we need to modify two places.
First `parse_long_magic` needs to not stop early upon seeing a comma or
closing paren that is escaped. As a second step we need to remove any
escaping from the attr value.
Based on a patch by Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pathspec mechanism is extended via the new
":(attr:eol=input)pattern/to/match" syntax to filter paths so that it
requires paths to not just match the given pattern but also have the
specified attrs attached for them to be chosen.
Based on a patch by Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we parse a remote alternates (or http-alternates), we
expect relative lines like:
../../foo.git/objects
which we convert into "$URL/../foo.git/" (and then use that
as a base for fetching more objects).
But if the remote feeds us nonsense like just:
../
we will try to blindly strip the last 7 characters, assuming
they contain the string "objects". Since we don't _have_ 7
characters at all, this results in feeding a small negative
value to strbuf_add(), which converts it to a size_t,
resulting in a big positive value. This should consistently
fail (since we can't generall allocate the max size_t minus
7 bytes), so there shouldn't be any security implications.
Let's fix this by using strbuf_strip_suffix() to drop the
characters we want. If they're not present, we'll ignore the
alternate (in theory we could use it as-is, but the rest of
the http-walker code unconditionally tacks "objects/" back
on, so it is it not prepared to handle such a case).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
