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Junio C Hamano
b67f154bf9 Merge branch 'nm/imap-send-with-curl'
"git imap-send" has our own implementation of the protocol and also
can use more recent libCurl with the imap protocol support.  Update
the latter so that it can use the credential subsystem, and then
make it the default option to use, so that we can eventually
deprecate and remove the former.

* nm/imap-send-with-curl:
  imap-send: use curl by default when possible
  imap_send: setup_curl: retreive credentials if not set in config file
  imap-send: add wrapper to get server credentials if needed
  imap-send: return with error if curl failed
2017-09-25 15:24:07 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
77f45395b0 Merge branch 'ks/commit-do-not-touch-cut-line'
The explanation of the cut-line in the commit log editor has been
slightly tweaked.

* ks/commit-do-not-touch-cut-line:
  commit-template: change a message to be more intuitive
2017-09-25 15:24:07 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
d019010559 Merge branch 'tg/refs-allowed-flags'
API error-proofing which happens to also squelch warnings from GCC.

* tg/refs-allowed-flags:
  refs: strip out not allowed flags from ref_transaction_update
2017-09-25 15:24:07 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
62b1cb7b13 Merge branch 'rs/archive-excluded-directory'
"git archive", especially when used with pathspec, stored an empty
directory in its output, even though Git itself never does so.
This has been fixed.

* rs/archive-excluded-directory:
  archive: don't add empty directories to archives
2017-09-25 15:24:07 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
5079cc82cb Merge branch 'ks/help-alias-label'
"git help co" now says "co is aliased to ...", not "git co is".

* ks/help-alias-label:
  help: change a message to be more precise
2017-09-25 15:24:07 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
ceb7a01aac Merge branch 'jn/per-repo-object-store-fixes'
Step #0 of a planned & larger series to make the in-core object
store per in-core repository object.

* jn/per-repo-object-store-fixes:
  replace-objects: evaluate replacement refs without using the object store
  push, fetch: error out for submodule entries not pointing to commits
  pack: make packed_git_mru global a value instead of a pointer
2017-09-25 15:24:07 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
c50424a6f0 Merge branch 'jk/write-in-full-fix'
Many codepaths did not diagnose write failures correctly when disks
go full, due to their misuse of write_in_full() helper function,
which have been corrected.

* jk/write-in-full-fix:
  read_pack_header: handle signed/unsigned comparison in read result
  config: flip return value of store_write_*()
  notes-merge: use ssize_t for write_in_full() return value
  pkt-line: check write_in_full() errors against "< 0"
  convert less-trivial versions of "write_in_full() != len"
  avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) != len" pattern
  get-tar-commit-id: check write_in_full() return against 0
  config: avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) < len" pattern
2017-09-25 15:24:06 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
94982b6999 Merge branch 'ez/doc-duplicated-words-fix'
Typofix.

* ez/doc-duplicated-words-fix:
  doc: fix minor typos (extra/duplicated words)
2017-09-25 15:24:06 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
f5faef8525 Merge branch 'kd/doc-for-each-ref'
Doc update.

* kd/doc-for-each-ref:
  doc/for-each-ref: explicitly specify option names
  doc/for-each-ref: consistently use '=' to between argument names and values
2017-09-25 15:24:06 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b9db14f52e Merge branch 'cc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities'
Finishing touches to a topic already in 'master'.

* cc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities:
  subprocess: loudly die when subprocess asks for an unsupported capability
2017-09-25 15:24:06 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
d085f9773a Merge branch 'kw/write-index-reduce-alloc'
A hotfix to a topic already in 'master'.

* kw/write-index-reduce-alloc:
  read-cache: fix index corruption with index v4
  Add t/helper/test-write-cache to .gitignore
2017-09-25 15:24:06 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b0df15a15d Merge branch 'mg/name-rev-tests-with-short-stack'
A handful of tests to demonstrates a recursive implementation of
"name-rev" hurts.

* mg/name-rev-tests-with-short-stack:
  t6120: test describe and name-rev with deep repos
  t6120: clean up state after breaking repo
  t6120: test name-rev --all and --stdin
  t7004: move limited stack prereq to test-lib
2017-09-25 15:24:05 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
59c0ea183a Merge branch 'jk/leak-checkers'
Many of our programs consider that it is OK to release dynamic
storage that is used throughout the life of the program by simply
exiting, but this makes it harder to leak detection tools to avoid
reporting false positives.  Plug many existing leaks and introduce
a mechanism for developers to mark that the region of memory
pointed by a pointer is not lost/leaking to help these tools.

* jk/leak-checkers:
  git-compat-util: make UNLEAK less error-prone
2017-09-21 13:38:37 +09:00
Jonathan Tan
5de3de329a git-compat-util: make UNLEAK less error-prone
Commit 0e5bba5 ("add UNLEAK annotation for reducing leak false
positives", 2017-09-08) introduced an UNLEAK macro to be used as
"UNLEAK(var);", but its existing definitions leave semicolons that act
as empty statements, which will lead to syntax errors, e.g.

	if (condition)
		UNLEAK(var);
	else
		something_else(var);

would be broken with two statements between if (condition) and else.
Lose the excess semicolon from the end of the macro replacement text.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-20 15:00:41 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
9ddaf86b06 The eighth batch for 2.15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-19 10:55:19 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
4d46bce6b0 Merge branch 'rk/commit-tree-make-F-verbatim'
Unlike "git commit-tree < file", "git commit-tree -F file" did not
pass the contents of the file verbatim and instead completed an
incomplete line at the end, if exists.  The latter has been updated
to match the behaviour of the former.

* rk/commit-tree-make-F-verbatim:
  commit-tree: do not complete line in -F input
2017-09-19 10:47:57 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
d811ba1897 Merge branch 'rs/strbuf-leakfix'
Many leaks of strbuf have been fixed.

* rs/strbuf-leakfix: (34 commits)
  wt-status: release strbuf after use in wt_longstatus_print_tracking()
  wt-status: release strbuf after use in read_rebase_todolist()
  vcs-svn: release strbuf after use in end_revision()
  utf8: release strbuf on error return in strbuf_utf8_replace()
  userdiff: release strbuf after use in userdiff_get_textconv()
  transport-helper: release strbuf after use in process_connect_service()
  sequencer: release strbuf after use in save_head()
  shortlog: release strbuf after use in insert_one_record()
  sha1_file: release strbuf on error return in index_path()
  send-pack: release strbuf on error return in send_pack()
  remote: release strbuf after use in set_url()
  remote: release strbuf after use in migrate_file()
  remote: release strbuf after use in read_remote_branches()
  refs: release strbuf on error return in write_pseudoref()
  notes: release strbuf after use in notes_copy_from_stdin()
  merge: release strbuf after use in write_merge_heads()
  merge: release strbuf after use in save_state()
  mailinfo: release strbuf on error return in handle_boundary()
  mailinfo: release strbuf after use in handle_from()
  help: release strbuf on error return in exec_woman_emacs()
  ...
2017-09-19 10:47:57 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
17cb5f85d0 Merge branch 'jk/shortlog-ident-cleanup'
Code clean-up.

* jk/shortlog-ident-cleanup:
  shortlog: skip format/parse roundtrip for internal traversal
2017-09-19 10:47:56 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
07f0542da3 Merge branch 'mh/packed-ref-transactions'
Implement transactional update to the packed-ref representation of
references.

* mh/packed-ref-transactions:
  files_transaction_finish(): delete reflogs before references
  packed-backend: rip out some now-unused code
  files_ref_store: use a transaction to update packed refs
  t1404: demonstrate two problems with reference transactions
  files_initial_transaction_commit(): use a transaction for packed refs
  prune_refs(): also free the linked list
  files_pack_refs(): use a reference transaction to write packed refs
  packed_delete_refs(): implement method
  packed_ref_store: implement reference transactions
  struct ref_transaction: add a place for backends to store data
  packed-backend: don't adjust the reference count on lock/unlock
2017-09-19 10:47:56 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
6701263956 Merge branch 'kw/merge-recursive-cleanup'
A leakfix and code clean-up.

* kw/merge-recursive-cleanup:
  merge-recursive: change current file dir string_lists to hashmap
  merge-recursive: remove return value from get_files_dirs
  merge-recursive: fix memory leak
2017-09-19 10:47:56 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
0543de438f Merge branch 'sb/merge-commit-msg-hook'
As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the
commit-msg hook, "git merge" that recoreds a merge commit that
cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't.

* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook:
  builtin/merge: honor commit-msg hook for merges
2017-09-19 10:47:56 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
09595ab381 Merge branch 'jk/leak-checkers'
Many of our programs consider that it is OK to release dynamic
storage that is used throughout the life of the program by simply
exiting, but this makes it harder to leak detection tools to avoid
reporting false positives.  Plug many existing leaks and introduce
a mechanism for developers to mark that the region of memory
pointed by a pointer is not lost/leaking to help these tools.

* jk/leak-checkers:
  add UNLEAK annotation for reducing leak false positives
  set_git_dir: handle feeding gitdir to itself
  repository: free fields before overwriting them
  reset: free allocated tree buffers
  reset: make tree counting less confusing
  config: plug user_config leak
  update-index: fix cache entry leak in add_one_file()
  add: free leaked pathspec after add_files_to_cache()
  test-lib: set LSAN_OPTIONS to abort by default
  test-lib: --valgrind should not override --verbose-log
2017-09-19 10:47:55 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
df80c5760c Merge branch 'nm/pull-submodule-recurse-config'
"git -c submodule.recurse=yes pull" did not work as if the
"--recurse-submodules" option was given from the command line.
This has been corrected.

* nm/pull-submodule-recurse-config:
  pull: honor submodule.recurse config option
  pull: fix cli and config option parsing order
2017-09-19 10:47:55 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
daafb5062c Merge branch 'mh/packed-ref-store-prep'
Fix regression to "gitk --bisect" by a recent update.

* mh/packed-ref-store-prep:
  rev-parse: don't trim bisect refnames
2017-09-19 10:47:55 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
c39da2c08e Merge branch 'ma/remove-config-maybe-bool'
Finishing touches to a recent topic.

* ma/remove-config-maybe-bool:
  config: remove git_config_maybe_bool
2017-09-19 10:47:55 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
f2ab3a10b5 Merge branch 'jk/system-path-cleanup'
Code clean-up.

* jk/system-path-cleanup:
  git_extract_argv0_path: do nothing without RUNTIME_PREFIX
  system_path: move RUNTIME_PREFIX to a sub-function
2017-09-19 10:47:55 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b86e112056 Merge branch 'jh/hashmap-disable-counting'
Our hashmap implementation in hashmap.[ch] is not thread-safe when
adding a new item needs to expand the hashtable by rehashing; add
an API to disable the automatic rehashing to work it around.

* jh/hashmap-disable-counting:
  hashmap: add API to disable item counting when threaded
2017-09-19 10:47:54 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
0517ae0ba6 Merge branch 'bb/doc-eol-dirty'
Doc update.

* bb/doc-eol-dirty:
  Documentation: mention that `eol` can change the dirty status of paths
2017-09-19 10:47:54 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
281b1cf856 Merge branch 'jt/packmigrate'
Remove unneeded file added by a topic already in 'master'.

* jt/packmigrate:
  Remove inadvertently added outgoing/packfile.h
2017-09-19 10:47:53 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
89563ec379 Merge branch 'jk/incore-lockfile-removal'
The long-standing rule that an in-core lockfile instance, once it
is used, must not be freed, has been lifted and the lockfile and
tempfile APIs have been updated to reduce the chance of programming
errors.

* jk/incore-lockfile-removal:
  stop leaking lock structs in some simple cases
  ref_lock: stop leaking lock_files
  lockfile: update lifetime requirements in documentation
  tempfile: auto-allocate tempfiles on heap
  tempfile: remove deactivated list entries
  tempfile: use list.h for linked list
  tempfile: release deactivated strbufs instead of resetting
  tempfile: robustify cleanup handler
  tempfile: factor out deactivation
  tempfile: factor out activation
  tempfile: replace die("BUG") with BUG()
  tempfile: handle NULL tempfile pointers gracefully
  tempfile: prefer is_tempfile_active to bare access
  lockfile: do not rollback lock on failed close
  tempfile: do not delete tempfile on failed close
  always check return value of close_tempfile
  verify_signed_buffer: prefer close_tempfile() to close()
  setup_temporary_shallow: move tempfile struct into function
  setup_temporary_shallow: avoid using inactive tempfile
  write_index_as_tree: cleanup tempfile on error
2017-09-19 10:47:53 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8a044c7f1d Merge branch 'nd/prune-in-worktree'
"git gc" and friends when multiple worktrees are used off of a
single repository did not consider the index and per-worktree refs
of other worktrees as the root for reachability traversal, making
objects that are in use only in other worktrees to be subject to
garbage collection.

* nd/prune-in-worktree:
  refs.c: reindent get_submodule_ref_store()
  refs.c: remove fallback-to-main-store code get_submodule_ref_store()
  rev-list: expose and document --single-worktree
  revision.c: --reflog add HEAD reflog from all worktrees
  files-backend: make reflog iterator go through per-worktree reflog
  revision.c: --all adds HEAD from all worktrees
  refs: remove dead for_each_*_submodule()
  refs.c: move for_each_remote_ref_submodule() to submodule.c
  revision.c: use refs_for_each*() instead of for_each_*_submodule()
  refs: add refs_head_ref()
  refs: move submodule slash stripping code to get_submodule_ref_store
  refs.c: refactor get_submodule_ref_store(), share common free block
  revision.c: --indexed-objects add objects from all worktrees
  revision.c: refactor add_index_objects_to_pending()
  refs.c: use is_dir_sep() in resolve_gitlink_ref()
  revision.h: new flag in struct rev_info wrt. worktree-related refs
2017-09-19 10:47:53 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
dafbe1993e Merge branch 'ma/split-symref-update-fix'
A leakfix.

* ma/split-symref-update-fix:
  refs/files-backend: add `refname`, not "HEAD", to list
  refs/files-backend: correct return value in lock_ref_for_update
  refs/files-backend: fix memory leak in lock_ref_for_update
  refs/files-backend: add longer-scoped copy of string to list
2017-09-19 10:47:53 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
30675f7021 Merge branch 'mh/notes-cleanup'
Code clean-up.

* mh/notes-cleanup:
  load_subtree(): check that `prefix_len` is in the expected range
  load_subtree(): declare some variables to be `size_t`
  hex_to_bytes(): simpler replacement for `get_oid_hex_segment()`
  get_oid_hex_segment(): don't pad the rest of `oid`
  load_subtree(): combine some common code
  get_oid_hex_segment(): return 0 on success
  load_subtree(): only consider blobs to be potential notes
  load_subtree(): check earlier whether an internal node is a tree entry
  load_subtree(): separate logic for internal vs. terminal entries
  load_subtree(): fix incorrect comment
  load_subtree(): reduce the scope of some local variables
  load_subtree(): remove unnecessary conditional
  notes: make GET_NIBBLE macro more robust
2017-09-19 10:47:52 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
eb066429e7 Merge branch 'mg/timestamp-t-fix'
A mismerge fix.

* mg/timestamp-t-fix:
  name-rev: change ULONG_MAX to TIME_MAX
2017-09-19 10:47:52 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
c78e182d55 Merge branch 'ma/pkt-line-leakfix'
A leakfix.

* ma/pkt-line-leakfix:
  pkt-line: re-'static'-ify buffer in packet_write_fmt_1()
2017-09-19 10:47:52 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b0727e2439 Merge branch 'jk/config-lockfile-leak-fix'
A leakfix.

* jk/config-lockfile-leak-fix:
  config: use a static lock_file struct
2017-09-19 10:47:51 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
1f1ea329b9 Merge branch 'dw/diff-highlight-makefile-fix'
Build clean-up.

* dw/diff-highlight-makefile-fix:
  diff-highlight: add clean target to Makefile
2017-09-19 10:47:50 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
cb6ec86d29 Merge branch 'ti/external-sha1dc'
Platforms that ship with a separate sha1 with collision detection
library can link to it instead of using the copy we ship as part of
our source tree.

* ti/external-sha1dc:
  sha1dc: allow building with the external sha1dc library
  sha1dc: build git plumbing code more explicitly
2017-09-19 10:47:50 +09:00
Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
dbba42bb32 imap-send: use curl by default when possible
Set curl as the runtime default when it is available.
When linked against older curl versions (< 7_34_0) or without curl,
use the legacy imap implementation.

The goal is to validate feature parity between the legacy and
the curl implementation, deprecate the legacy implementation
later on and in the long term, hopefully drop it altogether.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@morey-chaisemartin.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-15 13:46:19 +09:00
Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
19079b3e7c imap_send: setup_curl: retreive credentials if not set in config file
Up to this point, the curl mode only supported getting the username
and password from the gitconfig file while the legacy mode could also
fetch them using the credential API.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@morey-chaisemartin.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-15 13:45:37 +09:00
Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
690307f3d1 imap-send: add wrapper to get server credentials if needed
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@morey-chaisemartin.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-15 13:32:02 +09:00
Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
200bc38bf5 imap-send: return with error if curl failed
curl_append_msgs_to_imap always returned 0, whether curl failed or not.
Return a proper status so git imap-send will exit with an error code
if something wrong happened.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@morey-chaisemartin.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-15 13:31:45 +09:00
Kaartic Sivaraam
8c4b1a3593 commit-template: change a message to be more intuitive
It's not good to use the phrase 'do not touch' to convey the
information that the cut-line should not be modified or removed as
it could possibly be mis-interpreted by a person who doesn't know
that the word 'touch' has the meaning of 'tamper with'. Further, it
could make translations a little difficult as it might not have the
intended meaning in a few languages when translated as such.

So, use more intuitive terms in the sentence.

Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-15 12:34:33 +09:00
Jeff King
f48ecd38cb read_pack_header: handle signed/unsigned comparison in read result
The result of read_in_full() may be -1 if we saw an error.
But in comparing it to a sizeof() result, that "-1" will be
promoted to size_t. In fact, the largest possible size_t
which is much bigger than our struct size. This means that
our "< sizeof(header)" error check won't trigger.

In practice, we'd go on to read uninitialized memory and
compare it to the PACK signature, which is likely to fail.
But we shouldn't get there.

We can fix this by making a direct "!=" comparison to the
requested size, rather than "<". This means that errors get
lumped in with short reads, but that's sufficient for our
purposes here. There's no PH_ERROR tp represent our case.
And anyway, this function reads from pipes and network
sockets. A network error may racily appear as EOF to us
anyway if there's data left in the socket buffers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14 15:18:00 +09:00
Jeff King
d9bd4cbb9c config: flip return value of store_write_*()
The store_write_section() and store_write_pairs() functions
are basically high-level wrappers around write(). But their
return values are flipped from our usual convention, using
"1" for success and "0" for failure.

Let's flip them to follow the usual write() conventions and
update all callers. As these are local to config.c, it's
unlikely that we'd have new callers in any topics in flight
(which would be silently broken by our change). But just to
be on the safe side, let's rename them to just
write_section() and write_pairs().  That also accentuates
their relationship with write().

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14 15:18:00 +09:00
Jeff King
634eb82b1a notes-merge: use ssize_t for write_in_full() return value
We store the return value of write_in_full() in a long,
though the return is actually an ssize_t. This probably
doesn't matter much in practice (since the buffer size is
alredy an unsigned long), but it might if the size if
between what can be represented in "long" and "unsigned
long", and if your size_t is larger than a "long" (as it is
on 64-bit Windows).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14 15:17:59 +09:00
Jeff King
4c95e3dd28 pkt-line: check write_in_full() errors against "< 0"
As with the previous two commits, we prefer to check
write_in_full()'s return value to see if it is negative,
rather than comparing it to the input length.

These cases actually flip the logic to check for success,
making conversion a little different than in other cases. We
could of course write:

  if (write_in_full(...) >= 0)
          return 0;
  return error(...);

But our usual method of spelling write() error checks is
just "< 0". So let's flip the logic for each of these
conditionals to our usual style.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14 15:17:59 +09:00
Jeff King
564bde9ae6 convert less-trivial versions of "write_in_full() != len"
The prior commit converted many sites to check the return
value of write_in_full() for negativity, rather than a
mismatch with the input length. This patch covers similar
cases, but where the return value is stored in an
intermediate variable. These should get the same treatment,
but they need to be reviewed more carefully since it would
be a bug if the return value is stored in an unsigned type
(which indeed, it is in one of the cases).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14 15:17:59 +09:00
Jeff King
06f46f237a avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) != len" pattern
The return value of write_in_full() is either "-1", or the
requested number of bytes[1]. If we make a partial write
before seeing an error, we still return -1, not a partial
value. This goes back to f6aa66cb95 (write_in_full: really
write in full or return error on disk full., 2007-01-11).

So checking anything except "was the return value negative"
is pointless. And there are a couple of reasons not to do
so:

  1. It can do a funny signed/unsigned comparison. If your
     "len" is signed (e.g., a size_t) then the compiler will
     promote the "-1" to its unsigned variant.

     This works out for "!= len" (unless you really were
     trying to write the maximum size_t bytes), but is a
     bug if you check "< len" (an example of which was fixed
     recently in config.c).

     We should avoid promoting the mental model that you
     need to check the length at all, so that new sites are
     not tempted to copy us.

  2. Checking for a negative value is shorter to type,
     especially when the length is an expression.

  3. Linus says so. In d34cf19b89 (Clean up write_in_full()
     users, 2007-01-11), right after the write_in_full()
     semantics were changed, he wrote:

       I really wish every "write_in_full()" user would just
       check against "<0" now, but this fixes the nasty and
       stupid ones.

     Appeals to authority aside, this makes it clear that
     writing it this way does not have an intentional
     benefit. It's a historical curiosity that we never
     bothered to clean up (and which was undoubtedly
     cargo-culted into new sites).

So let's convert these obviously-correct cases (this
includes write_str_in_full(), which is just a wrapper for
write_in_full()).

[1] A careful reader may notice there is one way that
    write_in_full() can return a different value. If we ask
    write() to write N bytes and get a return value that is
    _larger_ than N, we could return a larger total. But
    besides the fact that this would imply a totally broken
    version of write(), it would already invoke undefined
    behavior. Our internal remaining counter is an unsigned
    size_t, which means that subtracting too many byte will
    wrap it around to a very large number. So we'll instantly
    begin reading off the end of the buffer, trying to write
    gigabytes (or petabytes) of data.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14 15:17:59 +09:00
Jeff King
68a423ab3e get-tar-commit-id: check write_in_full() return against 0
We ask to write 41 bytes and make sure that the return value
is at least 41. This is the same "dangerous" pattern that
was fixed in the prior commit (wherein a negative return
value is promoted to unsigned), though it is not dangerous
here because our "41" is a constant, not an unsigned
variable.

But we should convert it anyway to avoid modeling a
dangerous construct.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14 15:16:21 +09:00