When a remote ref or a tag is checked out, HEAD is automatically
detached. There is no user-friendly way to find out what ref is
checked out in this case. This patch digs in reflog for this
information and shows "HEAD detached from origin/master" or "HEAD
detached at v1.8.0" instead of "currently not on any branch".
When it cannot figure out the original ref, it shows an abbreviated
SHA-1. "Currently not on any branch" would never display (unless
reflog is pruned to near empty that the last checkout entry is lost).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The strbufs are placed outside read_and_strip_branch as a premature
optimization: when it reads "refs/heads/foo" to strbuf and wants to
return just "foo", it could do so without memory movement. In return
the caller must not use the returned pointer after releasing strbufs,
which own the buffers that contain the returned strings. It's a clumsy
design.
By moving strbufs into read_and_strip_branch(), the returned pointer
always points to a malloc'd buffer or NULL. The pointer can be passed
around and freed after use.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/reflog-reverse-walk:
reflog: add for_each_reflog_ent_reverse() API
for_each_recent_reflog_ent(): simplify opening of a reflog file
for_each_reflog_ent(): extract a helper to process a single entry
"git checkout -" is a short-hand for "git checkout @{-1}" and the
"@{nth}" notation for a negative number is to find nth previous
checkout in the reflog of the HEAD to determine the name of the
branch the user was on. We would want to find the nth most recent
reflog entry that matches "checkout: moving from X to Y" for this.
Unfortunately, reflog is implemented as an append-only file, and the
API to iterate over its entries, for_each_reflog_ent(), reads the
file in order, giving the entries from the oldest to newer. For the
purpose of finding nth most recent one, this API forces us to record
the last n entries in a rotating buffer and give the result out only
after we read everything. To optimize for a common case of finding
the nth most recent one for a small value of n, we also have a side
API for_each_recent_reflog_ent() that starts reading near the end of
the file, but it still has to read the entries in the "wrong" order.
The implementation of understanding @{-1} uses this interface.
This all becomes unnecessary if we add an API to let us iterate over
reflog entries in the reverse order, from the newest to older.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split the logic that takes a single line of reflog entry in a
strbuf, parses the message, and calls the callback function out of
the loop into a separate helper function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The typical use-case is starting a rebase, do something else, come
back the day after, run "git status" or make a new commit and wonder
what in the world's going on. Which branch is being rebased is
probably the most useful tidbit to help, but the target may help
too.
Ideally, I would have loved to see "rebasing master on
origin/master", but the target ref name is not stored during rebase,
so this patch writes "rebasing master on a78c8c98b" as a
half-measure to remind future users of that potential improvement.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while
being on a detached HEAD, errored out.
* nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached:
branch: no detached HEAD check when editing another branch's description
Help "fetch only" repositories that do not trigger "gc --auto"
often enough.
* jk/gc-auto-after-fetch:
fetch-pack: avoid repeatedly re-scanning pack directory
fetch: run gc --auto after fetching
With small updates to remove dependency on newer features of
Python, keep git-p4 usable with older Python.
* bc/git-p4-for-python-2.4:
INSTALL: git-p4 does not support Python 3
git-p4.py: support Python 2.4
git-p4.py: support Python 2.5
We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from
/etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug
lost the "user@" part. This is to fix it.
* jn/do-not-drop-username-when-reading-from-etc-mailname:
ident: do not drop username when reading from /etc/mailname
Warn people that other tools are more recommendable over
cvsimport+cvsps2 combo when doing a one-shot import, and cvsimport
will not work with cvsps3.
* jk/cvsimport-does-not-work-with-cvsps3:
git-cvsimport.txt: cvsps-2 is deprecated
Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.
* jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests:
t9902: protect test from stray build artifacts
We stopped paying attention to $GIT_CONFIG environment that points
at a single configuration file from any command other than "git config"
quite a while ago, but "git clone" internally set, exported, and
then unexported the variable during its operation unnecessarily.
* jc/no-git-config-in-clone:
clone: do not export and unexport GIT_CONFIG
"git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The
resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
command, and documentation was misleading.
* nd/fetch-depth-is-broken:
fetch: elaborate --depth action
upload-pack: fix off-by-one depth calculation in shallow clone
fetch: add --unshallow for turning shallow repo into complete one
Some reimplementations of Git does not write all the stat info back
to the index due to their implementation limitations (e.g. jgit
running on Java). A configuration option can tell Git to ignore
changes to most of the stat fields and only pay attention to mtime
and size, which these implementations can reliably update. This
avoids excessive revalidation of contents.
* rr/minimal-stat:
Enable minimal stat checking
When giving arguments without "--" disambiguation, object names
that come earlier on the command line must not be interpretable as
pathspecs and pathspecs that come later on the command line must
not be interpretable as object names. Tweak the disambiguation
rule so that ":/" (no other string before or after) is always
interpreted as a pathspec, to avoid having to say "git cmd -- :/".
* nd/magic-pathspec-from-root:
grep: avoid accepting ambiguous revision
Update :/abc ambiguity check
Update tests that were expecting to fail due to a bug that was
fixed earlier.
* tb/t0050-maint:
t0050: Use TAB for indentation
t0050: honor CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS in add (with different case)
t0050: known breakage vanished in merge (case change)
gitk, when bound into the git.git project tree, used to live at the
root level, but in 62ba514 (Move gitk to its own subdirectory,
2007-11-17) it was moved to a subdirectory. The code used to track
changes to TCLTK_PATH (which should cause gitk to be rebuilt to
point at the new interpreter) was left in the main Makefile instead
of being moved to the new Makefile that was created for the gitk
project.
Also add .gitignore file to list build artifacts for the gitk
project.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be
applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the
exclude mechanism does. The initial implementation of this that was
merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.1 had severe performance degradations.
* nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one:
attr: avoid calling find_basename() twice per path
attr: fix off-by-one directory component length calculation
"git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions
of Git.
* ph/rebase-preserve-all-merges:
rebase --preserve-merges: keep all merge commits including empty ones
Ramkumar Ramachandra noticed that the old address for the marc
archive no longer works. Update it to its marc.info address,
and also refer to the gmane site.
Remove the reference to "note from the maintainer", which is not
usually followed by any useful discussion on status, direction nor
tasks.
Also replace the reference to "What's in git.git" with "What's
cooking".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space
after completing a single directory name.
* mk/complete-tcsh:
Prevent space after directories in tcsh completion
Output from "git status --ignored" did not work well when used with
"--untracked".
* ap/status-ignored-in-ignored-directory:
status: always report ignored tracked directories
git-status: Test --ignored behavior
dir.c: Make git-status --ignored more consistent
An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
* mh/ceiling:
string_list_longest_prefix(): remove function
setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks in ceiling paths
longest_ancestor_length(): require prefix list entries to be normalized
longest_ancestor_length(): take a string_list argument for prefixes
longest_ancestor_length(): use string_list_split()
Introduce new function real_path_if_valid()
real_path_internal(): add comment explaining use of cwd
Introduce new static function real_path_internal()
Update tests that were expecting to fail due to a bug that was
fixed earlier.
* tb/t0050-maint:
t0050: Use TAB for indentation
t0050: honor CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS in add (with different case)
t0050: known breakage vanished in merge (case change)
Datestamp recorded in "Hg" format patch was reformatted incorrectly
to an e-mail looking date using locale dependant strftime, causing
patch application to fail.
* dl/am-hg-locale:
am: invoke perl's strftime in C locale
A header file that has the definition of a static array was
included in two places, wasting the space.
* jc/help:
help: include <common-cmds.h> only in one file
Fix use of an array notation that older versions of bash do not
understand.
* bc/fix-array-syntax-for-3.0-in-completion-bash:
git-completion.bash: replace zsh notation that breaks bash 3.X
When we look up a sha1 object for reading via parse_object() =>
read_sha1_file() => read_object() callpath, we first check
packfiles, and then loose objects. If we still haven't found it, we
re-scan the list of packfiles in `objects/pack`. This final step
ensures that we can co-exist with a simultaneous repack process
which creates a new pack and then prunes the old object.
This extra re-scan usually does not have a performance impact for
two reasons:
1. If an object is missing, then typically the re-scan will find a
new pack, then no more misses will occur. Or if it truly is
missing, then our next step is usually to die().
2. Re-scanning is cheap enough that we do not even notice.
However, these do not always hold. The assumption in (1) is that the
caller is expecting to find the object. This is usually the case,
but the call to `parse_object` in `everything_local` does not follow
this pattern. It is looking to see whether we have objects that the
remote side is advertising, not something we expect to
have. Therefore if we are fetching from a remote which has many refs
pointing to objects we do not have, we may end up re-scanning the
pack directory many times.
Even with this extra re-scanning, the impact is often not noticeable
due to (2); we just readdir() the packs directory and skip any packs
that are already loaded. However, if there are a large number of
packs, even enumerating the directory can be expensive, especially
if we do it repeatedly.
Having this many packs is a good sign the user should run `git gc`,
but it would still be nice to avoid having to scan the directory at
all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We generally try to run "gc --auto" after any commands that
might introduce a large number of new objects. An obvious
place to do so is after running "fetch", which may introduce
new loose objects or packs (depending on the size of the
fetch).
While an active developer repository will probably
eventually trigger a "gc --auto" on another action (e.g.,
git-rebase), there are two good reasons why it is nicer to
do it at fetch time:
1. Read-only repositories which track an upstream (e.g., a
continuous integration server which fetches and builds,
but never makes new commits) will accrue loose objects
and small packs, but never coalesce them into a more
efficient larger pack.
2. Fetching is often already perceived to be slow to the
user, since they have to wait on the network. It's much
more pleasant to include a potentially slow auto-gc as
part of the already-long network fetch than in the
middle of productive work with git-rebase or similar.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Python 2.4 lacks the following features:
subprocess.check_call
struct.pack_into
Take a cue from 460d1026 and provide an implementation of the
CalledProcessError exception. Then replace the calls to
subproccess.check_call with calls to subprocess.call that check the return
status and raise a CalledProcessError exception if necessary.
The struct.pack_into in t/9802 can be converted into a single struct.pack
call which is available in Python 2.4.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <bcasey@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
