We added an unrelated sanity checking that leads to a BUG() while
plugging a leak, which triggered in a repository with symrefs in
the local branch namespace that point at a ref outside. Partially
revert the change to avoid triggering the BUG().
* ab/checkout-branch-info-leakfix:
checkout: avoid BUG() when hitting a broken repository
When 9081a421 (checkout: fix "branch info" memory leaks, 2021-11-16)
cleaned up existing memory leaks, we added an unrelated sanity check
to ensure that a local branch is truly local and not a symref to
elsewhere that dies with BUG() otherwise. This was misguided in two
ways. First of all, such a tightening did not belong to a leak-fix
patch. And the condition it detected was *not* a bug in our program
but a problem in user data, where warning() or die() would have been
more appropriate.
As the condition is not fatal (the result of computing the local
branch name in the code that is involved in the faulty check is only
used as a textual label for the commit), let's revert the code to
the original state, i.e. strip "refs/heads/" to compute the local
branch name if possible, and otherwise leave it NULL. The consumer
of the information in merge_working_tree() is prepared to see NULL
in there and act accordingly.
cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2042920
Reported-by: Petr Šplíchal <psplicha@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/CodingGuidelines says “do not end error messages with a
full stop” and “do not capitalize the first word”. Clean up existing
messages, some of which we will be touching in later steps in the
series, that deviate from these rules in this file, as a preparation for
the main part of the topic.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As a follow-up to d162b25f95 (tests: remove support for
GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON, 2021-01-20) remove most uses of test_i18ncmp
via a simple s/test_i18ncmp/test_cmp/g search-replacement.
I'm leaving t6300-for-each-ref.sh out due to a conflict with in-flight
changes between "master" and "seen", as well as the prerequisite
itself due to other changes between "master" and "next/seen" which add
new test_i18ncmp uses.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we try to create a branch "foo" based on "origin/master" and give
git commit -b an extra unsupported argument "bar", it confusingly
reports:
$ git checkout -b foo origin/master bar
fatal: 'bar' is not a commit and a branch 'foo' cannot be created from it
$ git checkout --track -b foo origin/master bar
fatal: 'bar' is not a commit and a branch 'foo' cannot be created from it
That's wrong, because it very well understands that "origin/master" is
supposed to be the start point for the new branch and not "bar". Check
if we got a commit and show more fitting messages in that case instead:
$ git checkout -b foo origin/master bar
fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'foo' at the same time.
$ git checkout --track -b foo origin/master bar
fatal: '--track' cannot be used with updating paths
Original-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test git checkout -b with and without --track and demonstrate unexpected
error messages when it's given an extra (i.e. unsupported) path
argument. In both cases it reports:
$ git checkout -b foo origin/master bar
fatal: 'bar' is not a commit and a branch 'foo' cannot be created from it
The problem is that the start point we gave for the new branch is
"origin/master" and "bar" is just some extra argument -- it could even
be a valid commit, which would make the message even more confusing. We
have more fitting error messages in git commit, but get confused; use
the text of the rights ones in the tests.
Reported-by: Dana Dahlstrom <dahlstrom@google.com>
Original-test-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Setting and clearing of the SKIP_WORKTREE bit is not only done when
users run 'sparse-checkout'; other commands such as 'checkout' also run
through unpack_trees() which has logic for handling this special bit.
As such, we need to consider how they handle special cases. A couple
comparison points should help explain the rationale for changing how
unpack_trees() handles these bits:
Ignoring sparse checkouts for a moment, if you are switching
branches and have dirty changes, it is only considered an error that
will prevent the branch switching from being successful if the dirty
file happens to be one of the paths with different contents.
SKIP_WORKTREE has always been considered advisory; for example, if
rebase or merge need or even want to materialize a path as part of
their work, they have always been allowed to do so regardless of the
SKIP_WORKTREE setting. This has been used for unmerged paths, but
it was often used for paths it wasn't needed just because it made
the code simpler. It was a best-effort consideration, and when it
materialized paths contrary to the SKIP_WORKTREE setting, it was
never required to even print a warning message.
In the past if you trying to run e.g. 'git checkout' and:
1) you had a path that was materialized and had some dirty changes
2) the path was listed in $GITDIR/info/sparse-checkout
3) this path did not different between the current and target branches
then despite the comparison points above, the inability to set
SKIP_WORKTREE was treated as a *hard* error that would abort the
checkout operation. This is completely inconsistent with how
SKIP_WORKTREE is handled elsewhere, and rather annoying for users as
leaving the paths materialized in the working copy (with a simple
warning) should present no problem at all.
Downgrade any errors from inability to toggle the SKIP_WORKTREE bit to a
warning and allow the operations to continue.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As part of the effort to become more hash-agnostic, replace all
instances of "sha" with "oid".
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix invocations of git commands so their exit codes are not lost
within non-assignment command substitutions.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We are running `test_must_fail do_checkout`. However,
`test_must_fail` should only be used on git commands. Teach
do_checkout() to accept `!` as a potential first argument which will
cause the function to expect the "git checkout" to fail.
This increases the granularity of the test as, instead of blindly
checking that do_checkout() failed, we check that only the specific
expected invocation of git fails.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Functions test_dirty_unmergeable() and test_dirty_mergeable()
expect git-diff to exit with the specific code 1. However, rather
than checking for that value explicitly, they instead negate the
exit code. Unfortunately, this negation makes it impossible to
distinguish the expected code from some other unexpected non-zero
code, for instance, from a segmentation fault. Therefore, be more
discerning by checking the exit code explicitly using
test_expect_code().
Furthermore, some callers of those functions want to negate the
result again, and do so with test_must_fail(). However,
test_must_fail() should only be used with git commands. Address
this by introducing a couple new tiny helper functions which test
the exact condition expected (without the unnecessarily confusing
double-negation).
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert `[]` to `test` and break if-then into separate lines, both of
which bring the style in line with Git's coding guidelines.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a space between the function name and () which brings the style in
line with Git's coding guidelines.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we ran something like
$ git checkout -b test master...
it would fail with the message
fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master...'.
This was caused by the call to `create_branch` where `start_name` is
expected to be a valid rev. However, git-checkout allows the branch to
be a valid _merge base_ rev (i.e. with a "...") so it was possible for
an invalid rev to be passed in.
Make `create_branch` accept a merge base rev so that this case does not
error out.
As a side-effect, teach git-branch how to handle merge base revs as
well.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before, in t2018, if do_checkout failed to create `branch2`, the next
test-case would run `git branch -D branch2` but then fail because it was
expecting `branch2` to exist, even though it doesn't. As a result, an
early failure could cause a cascading failure of tests.
Make test-case responsible for cleaning up their own branches so that
future tests can start with a sane environment.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When doing a 'checkout -b' do a full checkout including updating the working
tree when doing the initial checkout. As the new test involves an filesystem
access, do it later in the sequence to give chance to other cheaper tests to
leave early. This fixes the regression in behavior caused by fa655d8411
(checkout: optimize "git checkout -b <new_branch>", 2018-08-16).
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit fa655d8411 (checkout: optimize "git checkout -b <new_branch>",
2018-08-16) introduced an unintentional change in behavior for 'checkout -b'
after doing 'clone --no-checkout'. Add a test to demonstrate the changed
behavior to be used in a later patch to verify the fix.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test functions test_i18ncmp and test_i18ngrep pretend success if run
under GETTEXT_POISON. By using those functions to test output which is
correctly marked as translatable, enables one to detect if the strings
newly marked for translation are from plumbing output. If they are
indeed from plumbing, the test would fail, and the string should be
unmarked, since it is not seen by users.
Thus, it is productive to not have false positives when running the test
under GETTEXT_POISON. This commit replaces normal test functions by
their i18n aware variants in use-cases know to be correctly marked for
translation, suppressing false positives.
Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When on master, "git checkout -B master <commit>" is a more natural way to
say "git reset --keep <commit>", which was originally invented for the
exact purpose of moving to the named commit while keeping the local changes
around.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the error message when doing: "git branch @{-1}",
"git checkout -b @{-1}", or "git branch -m foo @{-1}"
* was: A branch named '@{-1}' already exists.
* now: A branch named 'bar' already exists.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch -M <foo> <current-branch>" allows updating the current branch
which HEAD points, without the necessary house-keeping that git reset
normally does to make this operation sensible. It also leaves the reflog
in a confusing state (you would be warned when trying to read it).
"git checkout -B <current branch> <foo>" is also partly vulnerable to this
bug; due to inconsistent pre-flight checks it would perform half of its
task and then abort just before rewriting the branch. Again this
manifested itself as the index file getting out-of-sync with HEAD.
"git branch -f" already guarded against this problem, and aborts with
a fatal error.
Update "git branch -M", "git checkout -B" and "git branch -f" to share the
same check before allowing a branch to be created. These prevent you from
updating the current branch.
We considered suggesting the use of "git reset" in the failure message
but concluded that it was not possible to discern what the user was
actually trying to do.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When create a new branch, we fed "refs/heads/<proposed name>" as a string
to get_sha1() and expected it to fail when a branch already exists.
The right way to check if a ref exists is to check with resolve_ref().
A naïve solution that might appear attractive but does not work is to
forbid slashes in get_describe_name() but that will not work. A describe
name is is in the form of "ANYTHING-g<short sha1>", and that ANYTHING part
comes from a original tag name used in the repository the user ran the
describe command. A sick user could have a confusing hierarchical tag
whose name is "refs/heads/foobar" (stored as refs/tags/refs/heads/foobar")
to generate a describe name "refs/heads/foobar-6-g02ac983", and we should
be able to use that name to refer to the object whose name is 02ac983.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ensure that strcmp() isn't called when head is null.
Previously we were getting segfaults when checkout -B was done from a
detached HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Internally, --track and --orphan still use the 'safe' -b, not -B.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
