The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was pointed out by Yaroslav Halchenko that the file containing the
commit message is writable only by the owner, which means that we have
to rewrite it from scratch in a shared repository.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is confusing to document how --depth behaves as part of the
--single-branch docs. Better move that part to the --depth docs, saying
that it implies --single-branch by default.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Modify various document (man page) files to explain
in more detail what --signoff means.
This was inspired by https://lwn.net/Articles/669976/ where
paulj noted, "adding [the] '-s' argument to [a] git commit
doesn't really mean you have even heard of the DCO...".
Extending git's documentation will make it easier to argue
that developers understood --signoff when they use it.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git reflog (ab)uses the log machinery to display its list of log
entries. To do so it must fake commit parent information for the log
walker.
For refs in refs/heads this is no problem, as they should only ever
point to commits. Tags and other refs however can point to anything,
thus their reflog may contain non-commit objects.
To avoid segfaulting, we check whether reflog entries are commits before
feeding them to the log walker and skip any non-commits. This means that
git reflog output will be incomplete for such refs, but that's one step
up from segfaulting. A more complete solution would be to decouple git
reflog from the log walker machinery.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Helped-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In traverse_trees, we generate the complete traverse path for a
traverse_info. Later, in do_compare_entry, we used to go do a bunch
of work to compare the traverse_info to a cache_entry's name without
computing that path. But since we already have that path, we don't
need to do all that work. Instead, we can just put the generated
path into the traverse_info, and do the comparison more directly.
We copy the path because prune_traversal might mutate `base`. This
doesn't happen in any codepaths where do_compare_entry is called,
but it's better to be safe.
This makes git checkout much faster -- about 25% on Twitter's
monorepo. Deeper directory trees are likely to benefit more than
shallower ones.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git replace --edit' should error out when the invoked editor fails,
but the test checking this behavior would not notice if this weren't
the case.
The test in question, ever since it was added in 85f98fc037
(replace: add tests for --edit, 2014-05-17), has simulated a failing
editor in an unconventional way:
test_must_fail env GIT_EDITOR='./fakeeditor;false' git replace --edit
I presume the reason for this unconventional editor was the fact that
'git replace --edit' requires the edited object to be different from
the original, but a mere 'false' as editor would leave the object
unchanged and 'git replace --edit' would error out anyway complaining
about the new and the original object files being the same. Running
'fakeeditor' before 'false' was supposed to ensure that the object
file is modified and thus 'git replace --edit' errors out because of
the failed editor.
However, this editor doesn't actually modify the edited object,
because start_command() turns this editor into:
/bin/sh -c './fakeeditor;false "$@"' './fakeeditor;false' \
'.../.git/REPLACE_EDITOBJ'
This means that the test's fakeeditor script doesn't even get the path
of the object to be edited as argument, triggering error messages from
the commands executed inside the script ('sed' and 'mv'), and
ultimately leaving the object file unchanged.
If a patch were to remove the die() from the error path after
launch_editor(), the test would not catch it, because 'git replace'
would continue execution past launch_editor() and would error out a
bit later due to the unchanged edited object. Though 'git replace'
would error out for the wrong reason, this would satisfy
'test_must_fail' just as well, and the test would succeed leaving the
undesired change unnoticed.
Create a proper failing fake editor script for this test to ensure
that the edited object is in fact modified and 'git replace --edit'
won't error out because the new and original object files are the
same.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were introduced back in 2006 at 3175aa1ec2 but
never documented.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
History traversal with "git log --source" that starts with an
annotated tag failed to report the tag as "source", due to an
old regression in the command line parser back in v2.2 days.
* jk/pending-keep-tag-name:
revision.c: propagate tag names from pending array
"git symbolic-ref" forgot to report a failure with its exit status.
* jk/symbolic-ref-maint:
t1401: test reflog creation for git-symbolic-ref
symbolic-ref: propagate error code from create_symref()
When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not
in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the
codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed
and died. Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts
questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is
obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function
in non-strict mode.
* jk/ident-loosen-getpwuid:
ident: loosen getpwuid error in non-strict mode
ident: keep a flag for bogus default_email
ident: make xgetpwuid_self() a static local helper
The completion script (in contrib/) used to list "git column"
(which is not an end-user facing command) as one of the choices
* sg/completion-no-column:
completion: remove 'git column' from porcelain commands
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mutt saves aliases with escaped quotes in the form of:
alias dot \"Dot U. Sir\" <somebody@example.org>
When we pass through our sanitize_address routine,
we end up with double-escaping:
To: "\\\"Dot U. Sir\\\" <somebody@example.org>
Remove the escaping in mutt only for now, as I am not sure
if other mailers can do this or if this is better fixed in
sanitize_address.
Cc: Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The byte-swapping code automatically decides, based on the
platform, whether it is sensible to cast and do a potentially
unaligned ntohl(), or to pick individual bytes out of an
array.
It can be handy to override this decision, though, when
turning on compiler flags that will complain about unaligned
loads (such as -fsanitize=undefined). This patch adds a
macro check to make this possible.
There's no nice Makefile knob here; this is for prodding at
Git's internals, and anybody using it can set
"-DNO_UNALIGNED_LOADS" in the same place they are setting up
"-fsanitize".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We sometimes use 32-bit unsigned integers as bit-fields.
It's fine to access the MSB, because it's unsigned. However,
doing so as "1 << 31" is wrong, because the constant "1" is
a signed int, and we shift into the sign bit, causing
undefined behavior.
We can fix this by using "1U" as the constant.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rework the section on gitweb to add information about the cgi script
and the instaweb command.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are several places in the documentation that
the term shallow clone is used. Defining the term
enables its use elsewhere with a known definition.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git executes a sub-command, we print a warning if the
command dies due to a signal, but make an exception for
"uninteresting" cases like SIGINT and SIGQUIT (since the
user presumably just hit ^C).
We should make a similar exception for SIGPIPE, because it's
an expected and uninteresting return in most cases; it
generally means the user quit the pager before git had
finished generating all output. This used to be very hard
to trigger in practice, because:
1. We only complain if we see a real SIGPIPE death, not
the shell-induced 141 exit code. This means that
anything we run via the shell does not trigger the
warning, which includes most non-trivial aliases.
2. The common case for SIGPIPE is the user quitting the
pager before git has finished generating all output.
But if the user triggers a pager with "-p", we redirect
the git wrapper's stderr to that pager, too. Since the
pager is dead, it means that the message goes nowhere.
3. You can see it if you run your own pager, like
"git foo | head". But that only happens if "foo" is a
non-builtin (so it doesn't work with "log", for
example).
However, it may become more common after 86d26f2, which
teaches alias to re-exec builtins rather than running them
in the same process. This case doesn't trigger (1), as we
don't need a shell to run a git command. It doesn't trigger
(2), because the pager is not started by the original git,
but by the inner re-exec of git. And it doesn't trigger (3),
because builtins are treated more like non-builtins in this
case.
Given how flaky this message already is (e.g., you cannot
even know whether you will see it, as git optimizes out some
shell invocations behind the scenes based on the contents of
the command!), and that it is unlikely to ever provide
useful information, let's suppress it for all cases of
SIGPIPE.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We generally hold a lock on the matching ref while writing
to its reflog; this prevents two simultaneous writers from
clobbering each other's reflog lines (it does not even have
to be two symref updates; because we don't hold the lock, we
could race with somebody writing to the pointed-to ref via
HEAD, for example).
We can fix this by writing the reflog before we commit the
lockfile. This runs the risk of writing the reflog but
failing the final rename(), but at least we now err on the
same side as the rest of the ref code.
Noticed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The create_symref() function predates the existence of
"struct lock_file", let alone the more recent "struct
ref_lock". Instead, it just does its own manual dot-locking.
Besides being more code, this has a few downsides:
- if git is interrupted while holding the lock, we don't
clean up the lockfile
- we don't do the usual directory/filename conflict check.
So you can sometimes create a symref "refs/heads/foo/bar",
even if "refs/heads/foo" exists (namely, if the refs are
packed and we do not hit the d/f conflict in the
filesystem).
This patch refactors create_symref() to use the "struct
ref_lock" interface, which handles both of these things.
There are a few bonus cleanups that come along with it:
- we leaked ref_path in some error cases
- the symref contents were stored in a fixed-size buffer,
putting an artificial (albeit large) limitation on the
length of the refname. We now write through fprintf, and
handle refnames of any size.
- we called adjust_shared_perm only after the file was
renamed into place, creating a potential race with
readers in a shared repository. The lockfile code now
handles this when creating the lockfile, making it
atomic.
- the legacy prefer_symlink_refs path did not do any
locking at all. Admittedly, it is not atomic from a
reader's perspective (as it unlinks and re-creates the
symlink to overwrite), but at least it cannot conflict
with other writers now.
- the result of this patch is hopefully more readable. It
eliminates three goto labels. Two were for error checking
that is now simplified, and the third was to reach shared
code that has been pulled into its own function.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Once upon a time, create_symref() was used only to point
HEAD at a branch name, and the variable names reflect that
(e.g., calling the path git_HEAD). However, it is much more
generic these days (and has been for some time). Let's
update the variable names to make it easier to follow:
- `ref_target` is now just `refname`. This is closer to
the `ref` that is already in `cache.h`, but with the
extra twist that "name" makes it clear this is the name
and not a ref struct. Dropping "target" hopefully makes
it clear that we are talking about the symref itself,
not what it points to.
- `git_HEAD` is now `ref_path`; the on-disk path
corresponding to `ref`.
- `refs_heads_master` is now just `target`; i.e., what the
symref points at. This term also matches what is in
the symlink(2) manpage (at least on Linux).
- the buffer to hold the symref file's contents was simply
called `ref`. It's now `buf` (admittedly also generic,
but at least not actively introducing confusion with the
other variable holding the refname).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git p4" when interacting with multiple depots at the same time
used to incorrectly drop changes.
* sh/p4-multi-depot:
git-p4: reduce number of server queries for fetches
git-p4: support multiple depot paths in p4 submit
git-p4: failing test case for skipping changes with multiple depots
History traversal with "git log --source" that starts with an
annotated tag failed to report the tag as "source", due to an
old regression in the command line parser back in v2.2 days.
* jk/pending-keep-tag-name:
revision.c: propagate tag names from pending array
"git symbolic-ref" forgot to report a failure with its exit status.
* jk/symbolic-ref-maint:
t1401: test reflog creation for git-symbolic-ref
symbolic-ref: propagate error code from create_symref()
In the section on "How to check out a different version of a
project" the "new" branch is used as a temporary branch. A detached
HEAD was not used since it was a new feature introduced just a
couple weeks prior.
The section could be changed to use and explain a detached HEAD,
except that would increase the learning curve early in the manual.
Detached HEADs are discussed a couple sections later under
"Examining an old version without creating a new branch".
Let's declare that it is a bad idea to rewrite the example that
uses a temporary branch to do the sightseeing on a detached HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
