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brian m. carlson
acad70d106 builtin: convert textconv_object to use struct object_id
Since all of its callers have been updated, make textconv_object take a
struct object_id.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07 12:59:42 -07:00
brian m. carlson
63ecb99e0d builtin/cat-file: convert some static functions to struct object_id
Convert all of the static functions that are not callbacks to use struct
object_id.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07 12:59:42 -07:00
brian m. carlson
cd4f77beb7 builtin/cat-file: convert struct expand_data to use struct object_id
Convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id by applying the
following semantic patch and the object_id transforms from contrib,
plus the actual change to the struct:

@@
struct expand_data E1;
@@
- E1.sha1
+ E1.oid.hash

@@
struct expand_data *E1;
@@
- E1->sha1
+ E1->oid.hash

@@
struct expand_data E1;
@@
- E1.delta_base_sha1
+ E1.delta_base_oid.hash

@@
struct expand_data *E1;
@@
- E1->delta_base_sha1
+ E1->delta_base_oid.hash

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07 12:59:42 -07:00
brian m. carlson
d801627b0c builtin/log: convert some static functions to use struct object_id
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07 12:59:42 -07:00
brian m. carlson
a7bcfa126b builtin/blame: convert struct origin to use struct object_id
Convert struct origin to use struct object_id by applying the
following semantic patch and the object_id transforms from contrib,
plus the actual change to the struct:

@@
struct origin E1;
@@
- E1.blob_sha1
+ E1.blob_oid.hash

@@
struct origin *E1;
@@
- E1->blob_sha1
+ E1->blob_oid.hash

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07 12:59:42 -07:00
brian m. carlson
eb1c9c7328 builtin/apply: convert static functions to struct object_id
There were several static functions using unsigned char arrays for SHA-1
values.  Convert them to use struct object_id.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07 12:59:42 -07:00
brian m. carlson
99d1a9861a cache: convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id
Convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id by applying the
following semantic patch and the object_id transforms from contrib, plus
the actual change to the struct:

@@
struct cache_entry E1;
@@
- E1.sha1
+ E1.oid.hash

@@
struct cache_entry *E1;
@@
- E1->sha1
+ E1->oid.hash

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07 12:59:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4762bf36d9 Merge branch 'mh/blame-worktree'
* mh/blame-worktree:
  blame: fix segfault on untracked files
2016-08-31 10:03:50 -07:00
Thomas Gummerer
bc6b13a7d2 blame: fix segfault on untracked files
Since 3b75ee9 ("blame: allow to blame paths freshly added to the index",
2016-07-16) git blame also looks at the index to determine if there is a
file that was freshly added to the index.

cache_name_pos returns -pos - 1 in case there is no match is found, or
if the name matches, but the entry has a stage other than 0.  As git
blame should work for unmerged files, it uses strcmp to determine
whether the name of the returned position matches, in which case the
file exists, but is merely unmerged, or if the file actually doesn't
exist in the index.

If the repository is empty, or if the file would lexicographically be
sorted as the last file in the repository, -cache_name_pos - 1 is
outside of the length of the active_cache array, causing git blame to
segfault.  Guard against that, and die() normally to restore the old
behaviour.

Reported-by: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-29 11:57:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
13e11ff707 Merge branch 'js/no-html-bypass-on-windows'
On Windows, help.browser configuration variable used to be ignored,
which has been corrected.

* js/no-html-bypass-on-windows:
  Revert "display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API"
2016-08-25 13:55:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e6dab9f62f Merge branch 'sb/checkout-explit-detach-no-advice'
"git checkout --detach <branch>" used to give the same advice
message as that is issued when "git checkout <tag>" (or anything
that is not a branch name) is given, but asking with "--detach" is
an explicit enough sign that the user knows what is going on.  The
advice message has been squelched in this case.

* sb/checkout-explit-detach-no-advice:
  checkout: do not mention detach advice for explicit --detach option
2016-08-19 15:34:15 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
6db5967d4e Revert "display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API"
Since 4804aab (help (Windows): Display HTML in default browser using
Windows' shell API, 2008-07-13), Git for Windows used to call
`ShellExecute()` to launch the default Windows handler for `.html`
files.

The idea was to avoid going through a shell script, for performance
reasons.

However, this change ignores the `help.browser` config setting. Together
with browsing help not being a performance-critical operation, let's
just revert that patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-19 13:47:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2f664566c5 Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc'
Small code and comment clean-up.

* jk/tighten-alloc:
  receive-pack: use FLEX_ALLOC_MEM in queue_command()
  correct FLEXPTR_* example in comment
2016-08-17 14:07:46 -07:00
Stefan Beller
779b88a91f checkout: do not mention detach advice for explicit --detach option
When a user asked for a detached HEAD specifically with `--detach`,
we do not need to give advice on what a detached HEAD state entails as
we can assume they know what they're getting into as they asked for it.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-15 15:01:45 -07:00
René Scharfe
ddd0bfac7c receive-pack: use FLEX_ALLOC_MEM in queue_command()
Use the macro FLEX_ALLOC_MEM instead of open-coding it.  This shortens
and simplifies the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-13 19:49:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dd610aeda6 Merge branch 'kw/patch-ids-optim'
When "git rebase" tries to compare set of changes on the updated
upstream and our own branch, it computes patch-id for all of these
changes and attempts to find matches. This has been optimized by
lazily computing the full patch-id (which is expensive) to be
compared only for changes that touch the same set of paths.

* kw/patch-ids-optim:
  rebase: avoid computing unnecessary patch IDs
  patch-ids: add flag to create the diff patch id using header only data
  patch-ids: replace the seen indicator with a commit pointer
  patch-ids: stop using a hand-rolled hashmap implementation
2016-08-12 09:47:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2c44b7a53b Merge branch 'js/mv-dir-to-new-directory'
"git mv dir non-existing-dir/" did not work in some environments
the same way as existing mainstream platforms.  The code now moves
"dir" to "non-existing-dir", without relying on rename("A", "B/")
that strips the trailing slash of '/'.

* js/mv-dir-to-new-directory:
  git mv: do not keep slash in `git mv dir non-existing-dir/`
2016-08-12 09:47:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0a315befa7 Merge branch 'rs/use-strbuf-add-unique-abbrev'
A small code clean-up.

* rs/use-strbuf-add-unique-abbrev:
  use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes
2016-08-12 09:47:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b32d7c524b Merge branch 'rs/merge-add-strategies-simplification'
A small code clean-up.

* rs/merge-add-strategies-simplification:
  merge: use string_list_split() in add_strategies()
2016-08-12 09:47:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
18f3ce8841 Merge branch 'rs/child-process-init'
A small code clean-up.

* rs/child-process-init:
  use CHILD_PROCESS_INIT to initialize automatic variables
2016-08-12 09:47:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2f9c615efb Merge branch 'sb/submodule-clone-retry'
Fix-up to an error codepath in a topic already in 'master'.

* sb/submodule-clone-retry:
  submodule--helper: use parallel processor correctly
2016-08-12 09:47:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f4fd627661 Merge branch 'jk/reset-ident-time-per-commit' into maint
Not-so-recent rewrite of "git am" that started making internal
calls into the commit machinery had an unintended regression, in
that no matter how many seconds it took to apply many patches, the
resulting committer timestamp for the resulting commits were all
the same.

* jk/reset-ident-time-per-commit:
  am: reset cached ident date for each patch
2016-08-12 09:16:56 -07:00
Kevin Willford
b3dfeebb92 rebase: avoid computing unnecessary patch IDs
The `rebase` family of Git commands avoid applying patches that were
already integrated upstream. They do that by using the revision walking
option that computes the patch IDs of the two sides of the rebase
(local-only patches vs upstream-only ones) and skipping those local
patches whose patch ID matches one of the upstream ones.

In many cases, this causes unnecessary churn, as already the set of
paths touched by a given commit would suffice to determine that an
upstream patch has no local equivalent.

This hurts performance in particular when there are a lot of upstream
patches, and/or large ones.

Therefore, let's introduce the concept of a "diff-header-only" patch ID,
compare those first, and only evaluate the "full" patch ID lazily.

Please note that in contrast to the "full" patch IDs, those
"diff-header-only" patch IDs are prone to collide with one another, as
adjacent commits frequently touch the very same files. Hence we now
have to be careful to allow multiple hash entries with the same hash.
We accomplish that by using the hashmap_add() function that does not even
test for hash collisions.  This also allows us to evaluate the full patch ID
lazily, i.e. only when we found commits with matching diff-header-only
patch IDs.

We add a performance test that demonstrates ~1-6% improvement.  In
practice this will depend on various factors such as how many upstream
changes and how big those changes are along with whether file system
caches are cold or warm.  As Git's test suite has no way of catching
performance regressions, we also add a regression test that verifies
that the full patch ID computation is skipped when the diff-header-only
computation suffices.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <kcwillford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-11 14:39:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
11b53957ac Merge branch 'sb/submodule-update-dot-branch'
A few updates to "git submodule update".

Use of "| wc -l" break with BSD variant of 'wc'.

* sb/submodule-update-dot-branch:
  t7406: fix breakage on OSX
  submodule update: allow '.' for branch value
  submodule--helper: add remote-branch helper
  submodule-config: keep configured branch around
  submodule--helper: fix usage string for relative-path
  submodule update: narrow scope of local variable
  submodule update: respect depth in subsequent fetches
  t7406: future proof tests with hard coded depth
2016-08-10 12:33:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1a5f1a3f25 Merge branch 'js/am-3-merge-recursive-direct'
"git am -3" calls "git merge-recursive" when it needs to fall back
to a three-way merge; this call has been turned into an internal
subroutine call instead of spawning a separate subprocess.

* js/am-3-merge-recursive-direct:
  merge-recursive: flush output buffer even when erroring out
  merge_trees(): ensure that the callers release output buffer
  merge-recursive: offer an option to retain the output in 'obuf'
  merge-recursive: write the commit title in one go
  merge-recursive: flush output buffer before printing error messages
  am -3: use merge_recursive() directly again
  merge-recursive: switch to returning errors instead of dying
  merge-recursive: handle return values indicating errors
  merge-recursive: allow write_tree_from_memory() to error out
  merge-recursive: avoid returning a wholesale struct
  merge_recursive: abort properly upon errors
  prepare the builtins for a libified merge_recursive()
  merge-recursive: clarify code in was_tracked()
  die(_("BUG")): avoid translating bug messages
  die("bug"): report bugs consistently
  t5520: verify that `pull --rebase` shows the helpful advice when failing
2016-08-10 12:33:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7a3ea66633 Merge branch 'js/commit-slab-decl-fix'
* js/commit-slab-decl-fix:
  commit-slab.h: avoid duplicated global static variables
  config.c: avoid duplicated global static variables
2016-08-10 12:33:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
db40a62239 Merge branch 'jt/format-patch-from-config'
"git format-patch" learned format.from configuration variable to
specify the default settings for its "--from" option.

* jt/format-patch-from-config:
  format-patch: format.from gives the default for --from
2016-08-10 12:33:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
24fbe00490 Merge branch 'jk/reset-ident-time-per-commit'
Not-so-recent rewrite of "git am" that started making internal
calls into the commit machinery had an unintended regression, in
that no matter how many seconds it took to apply many patches, the
resulting committer timestamp for the resulting commits were all
the same.

* jk/reset-ident-time-per-commit:
  am: reset cached ident date for each patch
2016-08-10 12:33:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
574a31b5b7 Merge branch 'rs/use-strbuf-addstr' into maint
* rs/use-strbuf-addstr:
  use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() with "%s"
  use strbuf_addstr() for adding constant strings to a strbuf
2016-08-10 11:55:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d9d7ab3b1d Merge branch 'os/no-verify-skips-commit-msg-too' into maint
"git commit --help" said "--no-verify" is only about skipping the
pre-commit hook, and failed to say that it also skipped the
commit-msg hook.

* os/no-verify-skips-commit-msg-too:
  commit: describe that --no-verify skips the commit-msg hook in the help text
2016-08-10 11:55:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b7fb136bf6 Merge branch 'rs/rm-strbuf-optim' into maint
The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
suboptimal, which has been fixed.

* rs/rm-strbuf-optim:
  rm: reuse strbuf for all remove_dir_recursively() calls
2016-08-10 11:55:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
60b84ba26c Merge branch 'jk/parse-options-concat' into maint
Users of the parse_options_concat() API function need to allocate
extra slots in advance and fill them with OPT_END() when they want
to decide the set of supported options dynamically, which makes the
code error-prone and hard to read.  This has been corrected by tweaking
the API to allocate and return a new copy of "struct option" array.

* jk/parse-options-concat:
  parse_options: allocate a new array when concatenating
2016-08-10 11:55:24 -07:00
Stefan Beller
2201ee09b5 submodule--helper: use parallel processor correctly
When developing another patch series I had a temporary state in
which git-clone would segfault, when the call was prepared in
prepare_to_clone_next_submodule. This lead to the call failing,
i.e. in `update_clone_task_finished` the task was scheduled to be
tried again.  The second call to prepare_to_clone_next_submodule
would return 0, as the segfaulted clone did create the .git file
already, such that was not considered to need to be cloned again. I
was seeing the "BUG: ce was a submodule before?\n" message, which
was the correct behavior at the time as my local code was
buggy. When trying to debug this failure, I tried to use printing
messages into the strbuf that is passed around, but these messages
were never printed as the die(..) doesn't flush the `err` strbuf.

When implementing the die() in 665b35ecc (2016-06-09, "submodule--helper:
initial clone learns retry logic"), I considered this condition to be
a severe condition, which should lead to an immediate abort as we do not
trust ourselves any more. However the queued messages in `err` are valuable
so let's not toss them out by immediately dying, but a graceful return.

Another thing to note: The error message itself was misleading. A return
value of 0 doesn't indicate the passed in `ce` is not a submodule any more,
but just that we do not consider cloning it any more.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-09 14:54:16 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
dc29ddebb9 config.c: avoid duplicated global static variables
Repeating the definition of a static variable seems to be valid in C.
Nevertheless, it is bad style because it can cause confusion, definitely
when it becomes necessary to change the type.

d64ec16 (git config: reorganize to use parseopt, 2009-02-21) added two
static variables near the top of the file config.c without removing the
definitions of the two variables that occurs later in the file.

The two variables were needed earlier in the file in the newly
introduced parseopt structure. These references were removed later in
d0e08d6 (config: fix parsing of "git config --get-color some.key -1",
2014-11-20).

Remove the redundant, younger, definitions near the top of the file and
keep the original definitions that occur later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-09 10:19:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
19492555ca Merge branch 'jk/parseopt-string-list'
A small memory leak in the command line parsing of "git blame"
has been plugged.

* jk/parseopt-string-list:
  blame: drop strdup of string literal
2016-08-08 14:48:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
940622bc8b Merge branch 'rs/use-strbuf-addstr'
* rs/use-strbuf-addstr:
  use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() with "%s"
  use strbuf_addstr() for adding constant strings to a strbuf
2016-08-08 14:48:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
78849622ec Merge branch 'jk/pack-objects-optim'
"git pack-objects" has a few options that tell it not to pack
objects found in certain packfiles, which require it to scan .idx
files of all available packs.  The codepaths involved in these
operations have been optimized for a common case of not having any
non-local pack and/or any .kept pack.

* jk/pack-objects-optim:
  pack-objects: compute local/ignore_pack_keep early
  pack-objects: break out of want_object loop early
  find_pack_entry: replace last_found_pack with MRU cache
  add generic most-recently-used list
  sha1_file: drop free_pack_by_name
  t/perf: add tests for many-pack scenarios
2016-08-08 14:48:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
768ededa9c Merge branch 'va/i18n'
More i18n marking.

* va/i18n:
  i18n: config: unfold error messages marked for translation
  i18n: notes: mark comment for translation
2016-08-08 14:48:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0d3279962a Merge branch 'jk/reflog-date'
The reflog output format is documented better, and a new format
--date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone)
has been added.

* jk/reflog-date:
  date: clarify --date=raw description
  date: add "unix" format
  date: document and test "raw-local" mode
  doc/pretty-formats: explain shortening of %gd
  doc/pretty-formats: describe index/time formats for %gd
  doc/rev-list-options: explain "-g" output formats
  doc/rev-list-options: clarify "commit@{Nth}" for "-g" option
2016-08-08 14:48:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a220e2bbbf Merge branch 'pb/commit-editmsg-path' into maint
Code clean-up.

* pb/commit-editmsg-path:
  builtin/commit.c: memoize git-path for COMMIT_EDITMSG
2016-08-08 14:21:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aa9136a87e Merge branch 'nd/pack-ofs-4gb-limit' into maint
"git pack-objects" and "git index-pack" mostly operate with off_t
when talking about the offset of objects in a packfile, but there
were a handful of places that used "unsigned long" to hold that
value, leading to an unintended truncation.

* nd/pack-ofs-4gb-limit:
  fsck: use streaming interface for large blobs in pack
  pack-objects: do not truncate result in-pack object size on 32-bit systems
  index-pack: correct "offset" type in unpack_entry_data()
  index-pack: report correct bad object offsets even if they are large
  index-pack: correct "len" type in unpack_data()
  sha1_file.c: use type off_t* for object_info->disk_sizep
  pack-objects: pass length to check_pack_crc() without truncation
2016-08-08 14:21:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
327b3f8459 Merge branch 'mh/blame-worktree' into maint
"git blame file" allowed the lineage of lines in the uncommitted,
unadded contents of "file" to be inspected, but it refused when
"file" did not appear in the current commit.  When "file" was
created by renaming an existing file (but the change has not been
committed), this restriction was unnecessarily tight.

* mh/blame-worktree:
  t/t8003-blame-corner-cases.sh: Use here documents
  blame: allow to blame paths freshly added to the index
2016-08-08 14:21:32 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
189d035e67 git mv: do not keep slash in git mv dir non-existing-dir/
When calling `rename("dir", "non-existing-dir/")` on Linux, it silently
succeeds, stripping the trailing slash of the second argument.

This is all good and dandy but this behavior disagrees with the specs at

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/rename.html

that state clearly regarding the 2nd parameter (called `new`):

	If the `new` argument does not resolve to an existing directory
	entry for a file of type directory and the `new` argument
	contains at least one non- <slash> character and ends with one
	or more trailing <slash> characters after all symbolic links
	have been processed, `rename()` shall fail.

Of course, we would like `git mv dir non-existing-dir/` to succeed (and
rename the directory "dir" to "non-existing-dir"). Let's be extra
careful to remove the trailing slash in that case.

This lets t7001-mv.sh pass in Bash on Windows.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-08 10:43:20 -07:00
René Scharfe
1eb47f167d use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes
Call strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() to add abbreviated hashes to strbufs
instead of taking detours through find_unique_abbrev() and its static
buffer.  This is shorter and a bit more efficient.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-06 10:33:57 -07:00
René Scharfe
02a8cfa478 merge: use string_list_split() in add_strategies()
Call string_list_split() for cutting a space separated list into pieces
instead of reimplementing it based on struct strategy.  The attr member
of struct strategy was not used split_merge_strategies(); it was a pure
string operation.  Also be nice and clean up once we're done splitting;
the old code didn't bother freeing any of the allocated memory.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-05 15:11:06 -07:00
René Scharfe
542aa25d97 use CHILD_PROCESS_INIT to initialize automatic variables
Initialize struct child_process variables already when they're defined.
That's shorter and saves a function call.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-05 15:10:05 -07:00
René Scharfe
bc57b9c0cc use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() with "%s"
Call strbuf_addstr() for adding a simple string to a strbuf instead of
using the heavier strbuf_addf().  This is shorter and documents the
intent more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-05 15:09:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1e9a4856fb Merge branch 'sb/submodule-clone-retry'
An earlier tweak to make "submodule update" retry a failing clone
of submodules was buggy and caused segfault, which has been fixed.

* sb/submodule-clone-retry:
  submodule-helper: fix indexing in clone retry error reporting path
  git-submodule: forward exit code of git-submodule--helper more faithfully
2016-08-04 14:39:17 -07:00
Stefan Beller
4d7bc52b17 submodule update: allow '.' for branch value
Gerrit has a "superproject subscription" feature[1], that triggers a
commit in a superproject that is subscribed to its submodules.
Conceptually this Gerrit feature can be done on the client side with
Git via (except for raciness, error handling etc):

  while [ true ]; do
    git -C <superproject> submodule update --remote --force
    git -C <superproject> commit -a -m "Update submodules"
    git -C <superproject> push
  done

for each branch in the superproject. To ease the configuration in Gerrit
a special value of "." has been introduced for the submodule.<name>.branch
to mean the same branch as the superproject[2], such that you can create a
new branch on both superproject and the submodule and this feature
continues to work on that new branch.

Now we find projects in the wild with such a .gitmodules file.
The .gitmodules used in these Gerrit projects do not conform
to Gits understanding of how .gitmodules should look like.
This teaches Git to deal gracefully with this syntax as well.

The redefinition of "." does no harm to existing projects unaware of
this change, as "." is an invalid branch name in Git, so we do not
expect such projects to exist.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-03 16:13:22 -07:00
Stefan Beller
92bbe7ccf1 submodule--helper: add remote-branch helper
In a later patch we want to enhance the logic for the branch selection.
Rewrite the current logic to be in C, so we can directly use C when
we enhance the logic.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-03 16:11:35 -07:00