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Junio C Hamano
a122c42e6f Merge branch 'sl/autoconf'
* sl/autoconf:
  build: reconfigure automatically if configure.ac changes
  build: "make clean" should not remove configure-generated files
  autoconf: use AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS instead of ad-hoc 'config.mak.append'
  autoconf: remove few redundant semicolons
  autoconf: remove some redundant shell indirections
  autoconf: GIT_CONF_APPEND_LINE -> GIT_CONF_SUBST
  autoconf: GIT_CONF_APPEND_LINE: change signature
2012-07-23 20:56:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7ccb945973 Merge branch 'jv/maint-no-ext-diff'
"git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange
filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect.

* jv/maint-no-ext-diff:
  diff: test precedence of external diff drivers
  diff: correctly disable external_diff with --no-ext-diff
2012-07-23 20:56:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a7fe78a895 Merge branch 'kk/maint-commit-tree'
* kk/maint-commit-tree:
  Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis"
  commit-tree: resurrect command line parsing updates
2012-07-23 20:55:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9837911c13 Merge branch 'jk/mediawiki-credential'
* jk/mediawiki-credential:
  mw-to-git: use git-credential's URL parser
  credential: convert "url" attribute into its parsed subparts
  mw-to-git: check blank credential attributes via length
  docs/credential: minor clarity fixups
2012-07-23 20:55:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
331eb92bbc Merge branch 'mm/mediawiki-usability'
* mm/mediawiki-usability:
  git-remote-mediawiki: allow page names with a ':'
  git-remote-mediawiki: fix incorrect test usage in test
  git-remote-mediawiki: properly deal with invalid remote revisions
  git-remote-mediawiki: show progress information when getting last remote revision
  git-remote-mediawiki: show progress information when listing pages
  git-remote-mediawiki: use --force when adding notes
  git-remote-mediawiki: get rid of O(N^2) loop
  git-remote-mediawiki: make mediafiles export optional
  git-remote-mediawiki: actually send empty comment when they're empty
  git-remote-mediawiki: don't split namespaces with spaces
2012-07-23 20:55:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
90683976ce Merge branch 'sn/doc-typofix'
* sn/doc-typofix:
  doc: A few minor copy edits.
2012-07-23 20:55:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
30ea575876 Merge branch 'tg/ce-namelen-field'
Split lower bits of ce_flags field and creates a new ce_namelen
field in the in-core index structure.

* tg/ce-namelen-field:
  Strip namelen out of ce_flags into a ce_namelen field
2012-07-23 20:55:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6da9ded763 Merge branch 'nk/maint-gitweb-log-by-lines'
Teach gitweb to pay attention to various forms of credits that are
similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines.

* nk/maint-gitweb-log-by-lines:
  gitweb: Add support to Link: tag
  gitweb: Handle other types of tag in git_print_log
  gitweb: Cleanup git_print_log()
2012-07-23 20:55:07 -07:00
Jeff King
41f597d9bb commit: document the temporary commit message file
We do not document COMMIT_EDITMSG at all, but users may want
to know about it for two reasons:

  1. They may want to tell their editor to configure itself
     for formatting a commit message.

  2. If a commit is aborted by an error, the user may want
     to recover the commit message they typed.

Let's put a note in git-commit(1).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23 15:10:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
109859e274 mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool does
This way we do not have to risk the list of tools going out of sync
between the implementation and the documentation.

In the same spirit as bf73fc2 (difftool: print list of valid tools
with '--tool-help', 2012-03-29), trim the list of merge backends in
the documentation.  We do not want to have a complete list of valid
tools; we only want a list to help people guess what kind of things
the tools do to be specified there, and refer them to --tool-help
for a complete list.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23 14:42:39 -07:00
Jeff King
f20f3878ac commit: check committer identity more strictly
The identity of the committer will ultimately be pulled from
the ident code by commit_tree(). However, we make an attempt
to check the author and committer identity early, before the
user has done any manual work like inputting a commit
message. That lets us abort without them having to worry
about salvaging the work from .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG.

The early check for committer ident does not use the
IDENT_STRICT flag, meaning that it would not find an empty
name field. The motivation was presumably because we did not
want to be too restrictive, as later calls might be more lax
(for example, when we create the reflog entry, we do not
care too much about a real name). However, because
commit_tree will always get a strict identity to put in the
commit object itself, there is no point in being lax only to
die later (and in fact it is harmful, because the user will
have wasted time typing their commit message).

Incidentally, this bug was masked prior to 060d4bb, as the
initial loose call would taint the later strict call. So the
commit would succeed (albeit with a bogus committer line in
the commit object), and nobody noticed that our early check
did not match the later one.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23 13:27:21 -07:00
Jeff King
447b99c8b1 advice: pass varargs to strbuf_vaddf, not strbuf_addf
The advise() function takes a variable number of arguments
and converts them into a va_list object to pass to strbuf
for handling. However, we accidentally called strbuf_addf
(that takes a variable number of arguments) instead of
strbuf_vaddf (that takes a va_list).

This bug dates back to v1.7.8.1-1-g23cb5bf, but we never
noticed because none of the current callers passes a string
with a format specifier in it. And the compiler did not
notice because the format string is not available at
compile time.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23 13:10:43 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
f200197c39 Makefile: BLK_SHA1 does not require fast htonl() and unaligned loads
block-sha1/ is fast on most known platforms.  Clarify the Makefile to
be less misleading about that.

Early versions of block-sha1/ explicitly relied on fast htonl() and
fast 32-bit loads with arbitrary alignment.  Now it uses those on some
arches but the default behavior is byte-at-a-time access for the sake
of arches like ARM, Alpha, and their kin and it is still pretty fast
on these arches (fast enough to supersede the mozilla SHA1
implementation and the hand-written ARM assembler implementation that
were bundled before).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23 09:41:29 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
1015cc4225 Makefile: fix location of listing produced by "make subdir/foo.s"
When I invoke "make block-sha1/sha1.s", 'make' runs $(CC) -S without
specifying where it should put its output and the output ends up in
./sha1.s.  Confusing.

Add an -o option to the .s rule to fix this.  We were already doing
that for most compiler invocations but had forgotten it for the
assembler listings.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22 21:30:26 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
23119ffb4e block-sha1: put expanded macro parameters in parentheses
't' is currently always a numeric constant, but it can't hurt to
prepare for the day that it becomes useful for a caller to pass in a
more complex expression.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22 21:13:53 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
5f6a11259a block-sha1: avoid pointer conversion that violates alignment constraints
With 660231aa (block-sha1: support for architectures with memory
alignment restrictions, 2009-08-12), blk_SHA1_Update was modified to
access 32-bit chunks of memory one byte at a time on arches that
prefer that:

	#define get_be32(p)    ( \
		(*((unsigned char *)(p) + 0) << 24) | \
		(*((unsigned char *)(p) + 1) << 16) | \
		(*((unsigned char *)(p) + 2) <<  8) | \
		(*((unsigned char *)(p) + 3) <<  0) )

The code previously accessed these values by just using htonl(*p).

Unfortunately, Michael noticed on an Alpha machine that git was using
plain 32-bit reads anyway.  As soon as we convert a pointer to int *,
the compiler can assume that the object pointed to is correctly
aligned as an int (C99 section 6.3.2.3 "pointer conversions"
paragraph 7), and gcc takes full advantage by using a single 32-bit
load, resulting in a whole bunch of unaligned access traps.

So we need to obey the alignment constraints even when only dealing
with pointers instead of actual values.  Do so by changing the type
of 'data' to void *.  This patch renames 'data' to 'block' at the same
time to make sure all references are updated to reflect the new type.

Reported-tested-and-explained-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22 21:11:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e771946915 Update draft release notes to 1.7.12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22 13:20:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4a5b324031 Sync with 1.7.11.3 2012-07-22 13:08:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e6dfbcf12b Git 1.7.11.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22 13:07:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b120079113 Merge branch 'jk/push-delete-ref-error-message' into maint
The error message from "git push $there :bogo" (and its equivalent
"git push $there --delete bogo") mentioned that we tried and failed
to guess what ref is being deleted based on the LHS of the refspec,
which we don't.

* jk/push-delete-ref-error-message:
  push: don't guess at qualifying remote refs on deletion
2012-07-22 13:04:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7046e75821 Merge branch 'ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top' into maint
A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than
necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group
writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").

* ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top:
  add: create ADD_EDIT.patch with mode 0666
  rerere: make rr-cache fanout directory honor umask
  Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by clone
2012-07-22 13:04:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c9603dfae5 Merge branch 'cw/amend-commit-without-message' into maint
"commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log
message, with or without "--allow-empty-message".

* cw/amend-commit-without-message:
  Allow edit of empty message with commit --amend
2012-07-22 13:03:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f5a8400960 Merge branch 'jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths' into maint
"git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to
rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they
have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but
it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era.

* jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths:
  commit: fix "--amend --only" with no pathspec
2012-07-22 13:03:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1cd2913960 Merge branch 'tg/maint-cache-name-compare' into maint
Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes,
in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially
replacing index entries instead of adding.

* tg/maint-cache-name-compare:
  cache_name_compare(): do not truncate while comparing paths
2012-07-22 13:01:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1f5881d3fc Merge branch 'tr/maint-show-walk' into maint
"git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and
unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it
walks.

* tr/maint-show-walk:
  show: fix "range implies walking"
  Demonstrate git-show is broken with ranges
2012-07-22 13:01:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
106ef55f3a Merge branch 'jc/refactor-diff-stdin' into maint
"git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the
comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference
involved a file with "-" as its name.  This was due to the way "git
diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making
any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level
incorrectly read from the standard input.

* jc/refactor-diff-stdin:
  diff-index.c: "git diff" has no need to read blob from the standard input
  diff-index.c: unify handling of command line paths
  diff-index.c: do not pretend paths are pathspecs
2012-07-22 13:01:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
07873ca7b0 Merge branch 'mz/empty-rebase-test' into maint
We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options
filters out an empty commit in the original history.

* mz/empty-rebase-test:
  add test case for rebase of empty commit
2012-07-22 13:00:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
12d1ea21c0 Merge branch 'js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces' into maint
"git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without
properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them.

* js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces:
  fast-export: quote paths with spaces
2012-07-22 13:00:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9ea5c632da Merge branch 'cw/no-detaching-an-unborn' into maint
"git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,
should be forbidden, but it wasn't.

* cw/no-detaching-an-unborn:
  git-checkout: disallow --detach on unborn branch
2012-07-22 13:00:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bb3ed291a6 Merge branch 'vr/use-our-perl-in-tests' into maint
Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when
the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes.  Make sure to
use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in
our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests.

* vr/use-our-perl-in-tests:
  t/README: add a bit more Don'ts
  tests: enclose $PERL_PATH in double quotes
  t/test-lib.sh: export PERL_PATH for use in scripts
  t: Replace 'perl' by $PERL_PATH
2012-07-22 12:59:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8eda03a735 Merge git://bogomips.org/git-svn
* git://bogomips.org/git-svn:
  git-svn: don't create master if another head exists
2012-07-22 12:56:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d05e56ea67 Merge branch 'jk/revision-walk-stop-at-max-count'
"git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary
cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to
discard it.

* jk/revision-walk-stop-at-max-count:
  revision: avoid work after --max-count is reached
2012-07-22 12:56:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a3ad9a0f8d Merge branch 'mm/config-xdg'
* mm/config-xdg:
  config: fix several access(NULL) calls
2012-07-22 12:56:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
19f13d29a2 Merge branch 'as/t4012-style-updates'
* as/t4012-style-updates:
  t4012: Use test_must_fail instead of if-else
  t4012: use 'printf' instead of 'dd' to generate a binary file
  t4012: Re-indent test snippets
  t4012: Make --shortstat test more robust
  t4012: Break up pipe into serial redirections
  t4012: Actually quote the sed script
  t4012: Unquote git command fragment in test title
  t4012: modernize style for quoting
2012-07-22 12:56:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
80ee1e0469 Merge branch 'pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch'
When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.

* pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch:
  am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found
2012-07-22 12:56:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
15b3c82cbb Merge branch 'jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink'
When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get
confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the
superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the
path to the current directory.

* jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink:
  submodules: don't stumble over symbolic links when cloning recursively
2012-07-22 12:55:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9cbd27b19a Merge branch 'ms/daemon-doc-typo'
* ms/daemon-doc-typo:
  Documentation/git-daemon: add missing word
2012-07-22 12:55:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eab69dc449 Merge branch 'lk/more-helpful-status-hints'
* lk/more-helpful-status-hints:
  status: color in-progress message like other header messages
2012-07-22 12:55:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0958a24d73 Merge branch 'jc/sha1-name-more'
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output
is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish,
and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to
prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names.

* jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits)
  t1512: match the "other" object names
  t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output
  rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix>
  rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish
  reset: the command takes committish
  commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits
  apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs
  sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types
  revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish
  revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags
  sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish()
  sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context()
  sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish
  sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags
  sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits
  sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option
  sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags
  get_sha1(): fix error status regression
  sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names
  sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res"
  ...
2012-07-22 12:55:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9a0231b395 Merge branch 'jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date'
In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format
but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled
a similar logic on its own.  Because of this, "filter-branch" failed
to rewrite commits with ancient timestamps.

* jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date:
  t7003: add test to filter a branch with a commit at epoch
  date.c: Fix off by one error in object-header date parsing
  filter-branch: do not forget the '@' prefix to force git-timestamp
2012-07-22 12:55:05 -07:00
Tim Henigan
05df532655 difftool: only copy back files modified during directory diff
When 'difftool --dir-diff' is used to compare working tree files,
it always copies files from the tmp dir back to the working tree
when the diff tool is closed, even if the files were not modified
by the diff tool.

This causes the file timestamp to change. Files should only be
copied from the tmp dir back to the working copy if they were
actually modified.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-19 10:33:44 -07:00
Stefano Lattarini
8242ff470f build: reconfigure automatically if configure.ac changes
This provides a reduced but still useful sibling of the Automake's
"automatic Makefile rebuild" feature.  It's important to note that
we take care to enable the new rules only if the tree that has already
be configured with './configure', so that users relying on manual
configuration won't be negatively impacted.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-19 10:30:26 -07:00
Stefano Lattarini
dc7ace5f77 build: "make clean" should not remove configure-generated files
Those filed hold variables, settings and information set by the
configuration process run by './configure'; in Autotools-based
build system that kind of stuff should only be removed by
"make distclean".  Having it removed by "make clean" is not only
inconsistent, but causes real confusion for that part of the Git
audience that is used to the Autotools semantics; for example,
an autotools old-timer that has run:

    ./configure --prefix /opt/git

in the past, without running "make distclean" afterwards, would
expect a "make install" issued after a "make clean" to rebuild and
install git in '/opt/git'; but with the current behaviour, the
"make clean" invocation removes (among the other things) the file
'config.mak.autogen', so that the "make install" falls back to the
default prefix of '$HOME', thus installing git in the user's home
directory -- definitely unexpected.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-19 10:30:26 -07:00
Stefano Lattarini
ac5fc1c57f autoconf: use AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS instead of ad-hoc 'config.mak.append'
This will allow "./config.status --recheck; ./config.status" to work
correctly as a mean of reconfiguring the tree with the same configure
argument used in the previous "./configure" invocation.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-19 10:30:26 -07:00
Stefano Lattarini
c8e134a236 autoconf: remove few redundant semicolons
They are merely useless now, but would get in the way of future changes.

No semantic change is intended.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-19 10:30:26 -07:00
Stefano Lattarini
7f8cf48c4d autoconf: remove some redundant shell indirections
They are merely useless now, but would get in the way of future changes.

No semantic change is intended.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-19 10:30:25 -07:00
Stefano Lattarini
610473a6f7 autoconf: GIT_CONF_APPEND_LINE -> GIT_CONF_SUBST
The new name fits better with the macro signature, and underlines the
similarities with the autoconf-provided macro AC_SUBST (which will be
made even more pronounced in planned future commits).

Once again, no semantic change is intended, and indeed no change to the
generated configure script is expected.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-19 10:30:25 -07:00
Stefano Lattarini
390f4da8af autoconf: GIT_CONF_APPEND_LINE: change signature
Change one-argument GIT_CONF_APPEND_LINE([VAR=VAL]) to
GIT_CONF_APPEND_LINE([VAR], [VAL]), that is more similar to the usual
AC_SUBST macro; this is only a preparatory change in view of future
refactorings.

No semantic change is intended.  In fact, the generated configure file
doesn't change at all.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-19 10:30:25 -07:00
Jeff King
c12f82ae63 diff: test precedence of external diff drivers
There are three ways to specify an external diff command:
GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF in the environment, diff.external in the
config, or a "diff" gitattribute. The current order of
precedence is:

  1. gitattribute

  2. GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF

  3. diff.external

Usually our rule is that environment variables should take
precedence over on-disk config (i.e., option 2 should come
before option 1). However, this situation is trickier than
some, because option 1 is more specific to the individual
file than option 2 (which affects all files), so it might be
preferable. So the current behavior can be seen as
implementing "do the specific thing if we can, but fall back
to this general thing".

This is probably not what we would do if we were writing git
from scratch, but it has been this way for several years,
and is not worth changing. So let's at least document that
this is the way it's supposed to work with a test.

While we're there, let's also make sure that diff.external
(which was not previously tested at all) works by running it
through the same tests as GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-19 10:17:05 -07:00
Marcin Owsiany
e3bd4ddaa9 git-svn: don't create master if another head exists
git-svn insists on creating the "master" head (unless it exists) on every
"fetch". It is useful that it gets created initially, when no head exists
- users expect this git convention of having a "master" branch on initial
clone.

However creating it when there already is another head does not provide any
value - the ref is never updated, so it just gets stale after a while.  Also,
some users find it annoying that it gets recreated, especially when they would
like the git branch names to follow SVN repository branch names. More
background in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/115030

Make git-svn skip the "master" creation if HEAD already points at a valid head.
This means "master" does get created on initial "clone" but does not get
recreated once a user deletes it.

Also, make post_fetch_checkout work with any head that is pointed to by HEAD,
not just "master".

Also, use fatal error handling consistent with the rest of the program for
post_fetch_checkout.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2012-07-19 08:15:50 +00:00