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Michael Rappazzo
1ceb7f9067 worktree: refactor find_linked_symref function
Refactoring will help transition this code to provide additional useful
worktree functions.

Signed-off-by: Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-08 11:56:05 -07:00
Christian Couder
44cd91eab2 quote: move comment before sq_quote_buf()
A big comment at the beginning of quote.c is really
related to sq_quote_buf(), so let's move it in front
of this function.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07 15:12:01 -07:00
Christian Couder
ca9da0d810 quote: fix broken sq_quote_buf() related comment
Since 77d604c (Enhanced sq_quote(), 10 Oct 2005), the
comment at the beginning of quote.c is broken.
Let's fix it.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07 15:11:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f5b6079871 Second batch for 2.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07 13:38:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
98f9556a44 Merge branch 'ls/p4-path-encoding'
"git p4" learned to reencode the pathname it uses to communicate
with the p4 depot with a new option.

* ls/p4-path-encoding:
  git-p4: use replacement character for non UTF-8 characters in paths
  git-p4: improve path encoding verbose output
  git-p4: add config git-p4.pathEncoding
2015-10-07 13:38:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a23d263b69 Merge branch 'gb/filter-branch-progress'
Give progress meter to "git filter-branch".

* gb/filter-branch-progress:
  filter-branch: make report-progress more readable
  filter-branch: add passed/remaining seconds on progress
2015-10-07 13:38:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
506d8f1b39 Merge branch 'nd/ignore-then-not-ignore'
Allow a later "!/abc/def" to override an earlier "/abc" that
appears in the same .gitignore file to make it easier to express
"everything in /abc directory is ignored, except for ...".

* nd/ignore-then-not-ignore:
  dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely if neg pattern may match
  dir.c: make last_exclude_matching_from_list() run til the end
2015-10-07 13:38:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2b72dbbcf3 Merge branch 'ti/glibc-stdio-mutex-from-signal-handler'
Allocation related functions and stdio are unsafe things to call
inside a signal handler, and indeed killing the pager can cause
glibc to deadlock waiting on allocation mutex as our signal handler
tries to free() some data structures in wait_for_pager().  Reduce
these unsafe calls.

* ti/glibc-stdio-mutex-from-signal-handler:
  pager: don't use unsafe functions in signal handlers
2015-10-07 13:38:16 -07:00
Tobias Klauser
a43eb67e65 Documentation/interpret-trailers: Grammar fix
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07 10:53:34 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
786b150c8d clone --dissociate: avoid locking pack files
When `git clone` is asked to dissociate the repository from the
reference repository whose objects were used, it is quite possible that
the pack files need to be repacked. In that case, the pack files need to
be deleted that were originally hard-links to the reference repository's
pack files.

On platforms where a file cannot be deleted if another process still
holds a handle on it, we therefore need to take pains to release all
pack files and indexes before dissociating.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/446

The test case to demonstrate the breakage technically does not need to
be run on Linux or MacOSX. It won't hurt, either, though.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07 10:47:50 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
38849a8116 sha1_file.c: add a function to release all packs
On Windows, files that are in use cannot be removed or renamed. That
means that we have to release pack files when we are about to, say,
repack them. Let's introduce a convenient function to close all the
pack files and their idx files.

While at it, we consolidate the close windows/close fd/close index
stanza in `free_pack_by_name()` into the `close_pack()` function that
is used by the new `close_all_packs()` function to avoid repeated code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07 10:47:10 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
ba128e2375 t2026: rename worktree prune test
Linked checkouts are known under the name worktree, now. Rename the test
accordingly.

Specifically, this avoids the confusion that t2026 is actually not about
pruning in or with linked checkouts aka worktress but about pruning
worktrees, i.e. about "git worktree prune" rather than "git prune".

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07 10:39:32 -07:00
Eric N. Vander Weele
fd8d07efda log: Update log.follow doc and add to config.txt
Documentation/config.txt does not include the documentation for
log.follow that is in Documentation/git-log.txt.  This commit adds the
log.follow documentation to config.txt and also updates the wording to
be consistent with the format that is followed by other boolean
configuration variables.

Signed-off-by: Eric N. Vander Weele <ericvw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07 10:37:48 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
1db168ee97 rebase-i: loosen over-eager check_bad_cmd check
804098bb (git rebase -i: add static check for commands and SHA-1,
2015-06-29) tried to check all insns before running any in the todo
list, but it did so by implementing its own parser that is a lot
stricter than necessary.  We used to allow lines that are indented
(including comment lines), and we used to allow a whitespace between
the insn and the commit object name to be HT, among other things,
that are flagged as an invalid line by mistake.

Fix this by using the same tokenizer that is used to parse the todo
list file in the new check.

Whether it's a good thing to accept indented comments is
debatable (other commands like "git commit" do not accept them), but we
already accepted them in the past, and some people and scripts rely on
this behavior. Also, a line starting with space followed by a '#' cannot
have any meaning other than being a comment, hence it doesn't harm to
accept them as comments.

Largely based on patch by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

[jc: updated test with quickfix from Torsten Bögershausen]

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 22:39:56 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
8c845cde99 gc: demonstrate failure with stale remote HEAD
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 14:56:57 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
71fe5d7fb0 sha1_file: consolidate code to close a pack's file descriptor
There was a lot of repeated code to close the file descriptor of
a given pack. Let's just refactor this code into a single function.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 14:43:58 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
11911bf7c4 t5700: demonstrate a Windows file locking issue with git clone --dissociate
On Windows, dissociating from a reference can fail very easily due to
pack files that are still in use when they want to be removed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 14:43:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
24a00ef646 Start cycle toward 2.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 13:20:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
590f6e4235 Sync with 2.6.1 2015-10-05 13:20:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e13d854322 Merge branch 'mm/keyid-docs'
Very small number of options take a parameter that is optional
(which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end
of the command line).  Add notice to documentation of each and
every one of them.

* mm/keyid-docs:
  Documentation: explain optional arguments better
  Documentation/grep: fix documentation of -O
  Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'
2015-10-05 12:30:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e437cbd015 Merge branch 'bb/remote-get-url'
"git remote" learned "get-url" subcommand to show the URL for a
given remote name used for fetching and pushing.

* bb/remote-get-url:
  remote: add get-url subcommand
2015-10-05 12:30:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ff2be2610a Merge branch 'jk/blame-first-parent'
"git blame --first-parent v1.0..v2.0" was not rejected but did not
limit the blame to commits on the first parent chain.

* jk/blame-first-parent:
  blame: handle --first-parent
2015-10-05 12:30:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1e7ea4e7ab Merge branch 'jw/make-arflags-customizable'
The Makefile always runs the library archiver with hardcoded "crs"
options, which was inconvenient for exotic platforms on which
people want to use programs with totally different set of command
line options.

* jw/make-arflags-customizable:
  Makefile: allow $(ARFLAGS) specified from the command line
2015-10-05 12:30:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6560584494 Merge branch 'jk/rebase-no-autostash'
There was no way to defeat a configured rebase.autostash variable
from the command line, as "git rebase --no-autostash" was missing.

* jk/rebase-no-autostash:
  Documentation/git-rebase: fix --no-autostash formatting
  rebase: support --no-autostash
2015-10-05 12:30:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
96090283e0 Merge branch 'jk/make-findstring-makeflags-fix'
Customization to change the behaviour with "make -w" and "make -s"
in our Makefile was broken when they were used together.

* jk/make-findstring-makeflags-fix:
  Makefile: fix MAKEFLAGS tests with multiple flags
2015-10-05 12:30:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
65e1449614 Merge branch 'sb/submodule-helper'
The infrastructure to rewrite "git submodule" in C is being built
incrementally.  Let's polish these early parts well enough and make
them graduate to 'next' and 'master', so that the more involved
follow-up can start cooking on a solid ground.

* sb/submodule-helper:
  submodule: rewrite `module_clone` shell function in C
  submodule: rewrite `module_name` shell function in C
  submodule: rewrite `module_list` shell function in C
2015-10-05 12:30:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a54523f0f Merge branch 'kn/for-each-tag'
The "ref-filter" code was taught about many parts of what "tag -l"
does and then "tag -l" is being reimplemented in terms of "ref-filter".

* kn/for-each-tag:
  tag.c: implement '--merged' and '--no-merged' options
  tag.c: implement '--format' option
  tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs
  tag.c: use 'ref-filter' data structures
  ref-filter: add option to match literal pattern
  ref-filter: add support to sort by version
  ref-filter: add support for %(contents:lines=X)
  ref-filter: add option to filter out tags, branches and remotes
  ref-filter: implement an `align` atom
  ref-filter: introduce match_atom_name()
  ref-filter: introduce handler function for each atom
  utf8: add function to align a string into given strbuf
  ref-filter: introduce ref_formatting_state and ref_formatting_stack
  ref-filter: move `struct atom_value` to ref-filter.c
  strtoul_ui: reject negative values
2015-10-05 12:30:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
416e2b3d4b Merge branch 'jk/test-lint-forbid-when-finished-in-subshell'
Because "test_when_finished" in our test framework queues the
clean-up tasks to be done in a shell variable, it should not be
used inside a subshell.  Add a mechanism to allow 'bash' to catch
such uses, and fix the ones that were found.

* jk/test-lint-forbid-when-finished-in-subshell:
  test-lib-functions: detect test_when_finished in subshell
  t7800: don't use test_config in a subshell
  test-lib-functions: support "test_config -C <dir> ..."
  t5801: don't use test_when_finished in a subshell
  t7610: don't use test_config in a subshell
2015-10-05 12:30:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ebb58652b2 Merge branch 'jk/interpret-trailers-outside-a-repository'
Allow "git interpret-trailers" to run outside of a Git repository.

* jk/interpret-trailers-outside-a-repository:
  interpret-trailers: allow running outside a repository
2015-10-05 12:30:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a66aa25afb Merge branch 'as/subtree-with-spaces'
Update "git subtree" (in contrib/) so that it can take whitespaces
in the pathnames, not only in the in-tree pathname but the name of
the directory that the repository is in.

* as/subtree-with-spaces:
  contrib/subtree: respect spaces in a repository path
  t7900-subtree: test the "space in a subdirectory name" case
2015-10-05 12:30:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e6f11c19ab Merge branch 'jk/connect-clear-env'
The ssh transport, just like any other transport over the network,
did not clear GIT_* environment variables, but it is possible to
use SendEnv and AcceptEnv to leak them to the remote invocation of
Git, which is not a good idea at all.  Explicitly clear them just
like we do for the local transport.

* jk/connect-clear-env:
  git_connect: clarify conn->use_shell flag
  git_connect: clear GIT_* environment for ssh
2015-10-05 12:30:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7b09c459d3 Merge branch 'jk/date-local'
"git log --date=local" used to only show the normal (default)
format in the local timezone.  The command learned to take 'local'
as an instruction to use the local timezone with other formats,
e.g. "git show --date=rfc-local".

* jk/date-local:
  t6300: add tests for "-local" date formats
  t6300: make UTC and local dates different
  date: make "local" orthogonal to date format
  date: check for "local" before anything else
  t6300: add test for "raw" date format
  t6300: introduce test_date() helper
  fast-import: switch crash-report date to iso8601
  Documentation/rev-list: don't list date formats
  Documentation/git-for-each-ref: don't list date formats
  Documentation/config: don't list date formats
  Documentation/blame-options: don't list date formats
2015-10-05 12:30:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
297ae7151f Merge branch 'dt/refs-bisection'
Move the refs used during a "git bisect" session to per-worktree
hierarchy refs/worktree/* so that independent bisect sessions can
be done in different worktrees.

* dt/refs-bisection:
  refs: make refs/bisect/* per-worktree
  path: optimize common dir checking
  refs: clean up common_list
2015-10-05 12:30:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5e9a74b480 Merge branch 'nk/stash-show-config'
Users who are too busy to type three extra keystrokes to ask for
"git stash show -p" can now set stash.showPatch configuration
varible to true to always see the actual patch, not just the list
of paths affected with feel for the extent of damage via diffstat.

* nk/stash-show-config:
  stash: allow "stash show" diff output configurable
2015-10-05 12:30:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
88bad58d38 Merge branch 'jk/async-pkt-line'
The debugging infrastructure for pkt-line based communication has
been improved to mark the side-band communication specifically.

* jk/async-pkt-line:
  pkt-line: show packets in async processes as "sideband"
  run-command: provide in_async query function
2015-10-05 12:30:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
db9789ab4e Merge branch 'jh/quiltimport-explicit-series-file'
"quiltimport" allows to specify the series file by honoring the
$QUILT_SERIES environment and also --series command line option.

* jh/quiltimport-explicit-series-file:
  git-quiltimport: add commandline option --series <file>
2015-10-05 12:30:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5e1288ac9e Merge branch 'ld/p4-import-labels'
Correct "git p4 --detect-labels" so that it does not fail to create
a tag that points at a commit that is also being imported.

* ld/p4-import-labels:
  git-p4: fix P4 label import for unprocessed commits
  git-p4: do not terminate creating tag for unknown commit
  git-p4: failing test for ignoring invalid p4 labels
2015-10-05 12:30:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
22dd6eb31f Merge branch 'ad/bisect-terms'
The use of 'good/bad' in "git bisect" made it confusing to use when
hunting for a state change that is not a regression (e.g. bugfix).
The command learned 'old/new' and then allows the end user to
say e.g. "bisect start --term-old=fast --term=new=slow" to find a
performance regression.

Michael's idea to make 'good/bad' more intelligent does have
certain attractiveness ($gname/272867), and makes some of the work
on this topic a moot point.

* ad/bisect-terms:
  bisect: allow setting any user-specified in 'git bisect start'
  bisect: add 'git bisect terms' to view the current terms
  bisect: add the terms old/new
  bisect: sanity check on terms
2015-10-05 12:30:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dc5400e11d Merge branch 'jc/rerere'
Code clean-up and minor fixes.

* jc/rerere: (21 commits)
  rerere: un-nest merge() further
  rerere: use "struct rerere_id" instead of "char *" for conflict ID
  rerere: call conflict-ids IDs
  rerere: further clarify do_rerere_one_path()
  rerere: further de-dent do_plain_rerere()
  rerere: refactor "replay" part of do_plain_rerere()
  rerere: explain the remainder
  rerere: explain "rerere forget" codepath
  rerere: explain the primary codepath
  rerere: explain MERGE_RR management helpers
  rerere: fix benign off-by-one non-bug and clarify code
  rerere: explain the rerere I/O abstraction
  rerere: do not leak mmfile[] for a path with multiple stage #1 entries
  rerere: stop looping unnecessarily
  rerere: drop want_sp parameter from is_cmarker()
  rerere: report autoupdated paths only after actually updating them
  rerere: write out each record of MERGE_RR in one go
  rerere: lift PATH_MAX limitation
  rerere: plug conflict ID leaks
  rerere: handle conflicts with multiple stage #1 entries
  ...
2015-10-05 12:30:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9958dd8685 Merge branch 'kn/for-each-tag-branch'
Some features from "git tag -l" and "git branch -l" have been made
available to "git for-each-ref" so that eventually the unified
implementation can be shared across all three, in a follow-up
series or two.

* kn/for-each-tag-branch:
  for-each-ref: add '--contains' option
  ref-filter: implement '--contains' option
  parse-options.h: add macros for '--contains' option
  parse-option: rename parse_opt_with_commit()
  for-each-ref: add '--merged' and '--no-merged' options
  ref-filter: implement '--merged' and '--no-merged' options
  ref-filter: add parse_opt_merge_filter()
  for-each-ref: add '--points-at' option
  ref-filter: implement '--points-at' option
  tag: libify parse_opt_points_at()
  t6302: for-each-ref tests for ref-filter APIs
2015-10-05 12:30:03 -07:00
Jeff King
34e02deb60 name-rev: use strip_suffix to avoid magic numbers
The manual size computations here are correct, but using
strip_suffix makes that obvious, and hopefully communicates
the intent of the code more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:06 -07:00
Jeff King
00b6c178c3 use strbuf_complete to conditionally append slash
When working with paths in strbufs, we frequently want to
ensure that a directory contains a trailing slash before
appending to it. We can shorten this code (and make the
intent more obvious) by calling strbuf_complete.

Most of these cases are trivially identical conversions, but
there are two things to note:

  - in a few cases we did not check that the strbuf is
    non-empty (which would lead to an out-of-bounds memory
    access). These were generally not triggerable in
    practice, either from earlier assertions, or typically
    because we would have just fed the strbuf to opendir(),
    which would choke on an empty path.

  - in a few cases we indexed the buffer with "original_len"
    or similar, rather than the current sb->len, and it is
    not immediately obvious from the diff that they are the
    same. In all of these cases, I manually verified that
    the strbuf does not change between the assignment and
    the strbuf_complete call.

This does not convert cases which look like:

  if (sb->len && !is_dir_sep(sb->buf[sb->len - 1]))
	  strbuf_addch(sb, '/');

as those are obviously semantically different. Some of these
cases arguably should be doing that, but that is out of
scope for this change, which aims purely for cleanup with no
behavior change (and at least it will make such sites easier
to find and examine in the future, as we can grep for
strbuf_complete).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:06 -07:00
Jeff King
f0766bf94e fsck: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
Since 27e1e22 (prune: factor out loose-object directory
traversal, 2014-10-15), we now have a generic callback
system for iterating over the loose object directories. This
is used by prune, count-objects, etc.

We did not convert git-fsck at the time because it
implemented an inode-sorting scheme that was not part of the
generic code. Now that the inode-sorting code is gone, we
can reuse the generic code.  The result is shorter,
hopefully more readable, and drops some unchecked sprintf
calls.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:06 -07:00
Jeff King
e23a91b047 Makefile: drop D_INO_IN_DIRENT build knob
Now that fsck has dropped its inode-sorting, there are no
longer any users of this knob, and it can go away.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:06 -07:00
Jeff King
144e4cf709 fsck: drop inode-sorting code
Fsck tries to access loose objects in order of inode number,
with the hope that this would make cold cache access faster
on a spinning disk. This dates back to 7e8c174 (fsck-cache:
sort entries by inode number, 2005-05-02), which predates
the invention of packfiles.

These days, there's not much point in trying to optimize
cold cache for a large number of loose objects. You are much
better off to simply pack the objects, which will reduce the
disk footprint _and_ provide better locality of data access.

So while you can certainly construct pathological cases
where this code might help, it is not worth the trouble
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:06 -07:00
Jeff King
eddda37144 convert strncpy to memcpy
strncpy is known to be a confusing function because of its
termination semantics.  These calls are all correct, but it
takes some examination to see why. In particular, every one
of them expects to copy up to the length limit, and then
makes some arrangement for terminating the result.

We can just use memcpy, along with noting explicitly how the
result is terminated (if it is not already obvious). That
should make it more clear to a reader that we are doing the
right thing.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:06 -07:00
Jeff King
02e32b7deb notes: document length of fanout path with a constant
We know that a fanned-out sha1 in a notes tree cannot be
more than "aa/bb/cc/...", and we have an assert() to confirm
that. But let's factor out that length into a constant so we
can be sure it is used consistently. And even though we
assert() earlier, let's replace a strcpy with xsnprintf, so
it is clear to a reader that all cases are covered.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:05 -07:00
Jeff King
7ce4fb948c color: add color_set helper for copying raw colors
To set up default colors, we sometimes strcpy() from the
default string literals into our color buffers. This isn't a
bug (assuming the destination is COLOR_MAXLEN bytes), but
makes it harder to audit the code for problematic strcpy
calls.

Let's introduce a color_set which copies under the
assumption that there are COLOR_MAXLEN bytes in the
destination (of course you can call it on a smaller buffer,
so this isn't providing a huge amount of safety, but it's
more convenient than calling xsnprintf yourself).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:05 -07:00
Jeff King
34fa79a6cd prefer memcpy to strcpy
When we already know the length of a string (e.g., because
we just malloc'd to fit it), it's nicer to use memcpy than
strcpy, as it makes it more obvious that we are not going to
overflow the buffer (because the size we pass matches the
size in the allocation).

This also eliminates calls to strcpy, which make auditing
the code base harder.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:05 -07:00
Jeff King
4c9ac3bfaa help: clean up kfmclient munging
When we are going to launch "/path/to/konqueror", we instead
rewrite this into "/path/to/kfmclient" by duplicating the
original string and writing over the ending bits. This can
be done more obviously with strip_suffix and xstrfmt.

Note that we also fix a subtle bug with the "filename"
parameter, which is passed as argv[0] to the child. If the
user has configured a program name with no directory
component, we always pass the string "kfmclient", even if
your program is called something else. But if you give a
full path, we give the basename of that path. But more
bizarrely, if we rewrite "konqueror" to "kfmclient", we
still pass "konqueror".

The history of this function doesn't reveal anything
interesting, so it looks like just an oversight from
combining the suffix-munging with the basename-finding.
Let's just call basename on the munged path, which produces
consistent results (if you gave a program, whether a full
path or not, we pass its basename).

Probably this doesn't matter at all in practice, but it
makes the code slightly less confusing to read.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:05 -07:00