Git 2.0 was supposed to make the "simple" mode for the default of
"git push", but it didn't.
* jk/push-simple:
push: truly use "simple" as default, not "upstream"
"git init" (hence "git clone") initialized the per-repository
configuration file .git/config with x-bit by mistake.
* mh/config-flip-xbit-back-after-checking:
create_default_files(): don't set u+x bit on $GIT_DIR/config
"git config --get-color" did not parse its command line arguments
carefully.
* jk/colors-fix:
t4026: test "normal" color
config: fix parsing of "git config --get-color some.key -1"
docs: describe ANSI 256-color mode
"git checkout $treeish $path", when $path in the index and the
working tree already matched what is in $treeish at the $path,
still overwrote the $path unnecessarily.
* jk/checkout-from-tree:
checkout $tree: do not throw away unchanged index entries
The plan for the push.default transition had all along been
to use the "simple" method rather than "upstream" as a
default if the user did not specify their own push.default
value. Commit 11037ee (push: switch default from "matching"
to "simple", 2013-01-04) tried to implement that by moving
PUSH_DEFAULT_UNSPECIFIED in our switch statement to
fall-through to the PUSH_DEFAULT_SIMPLE case.
When the commit that became 11037ee was originally written,
that would have been enough. We would fall through to
calling setup_push_upstream() with the "simple" parameter
set to 1. However, it was delayed for a while until we were
ready to make the transition in Git 2.0.
And in the meantime, commit ed2b182 (push: change `simple`
to accommodate triangular workflows, 2013-06-19) threw a
monkey wrench into the works. That commit drops the "simple"
parameter to setup_push_upstream, and instead checks whether
the global "push_default" is PUSH_DEFAULT_SIMPLE. This is
right when the user has explicitly configured push.default
to simple, but wrong when we are a fall-through for the
"unspecified" case.
We never noticed because our push.default tests do not cover
the case of the variable being totally unset; they only
check the "simple" behavior itself.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add foo bar" adds neither foo nor bar when bar is ignored, but dies
to let the user recheck their command invocation. This becomes less
helpful when "git add foo.*" is subject to shell expansion and some of
the expanded files are ignored.
"git add --ignore-errors" is supposed to ignore errors when indexing
some files and adds the others. It does ignore errors from actual
indexing attempts, but does not ignore the error "file is ignored" as
outlined above. This is unexpected.
Change "git add foo bar" to add foo when bar is ignored, but issue
a warning and return a failure code as before the change.
That is, in the case of trying to add ignored files we now act the same
way (with or without "--ignore-errors") in which we act for more
severe indexing errors when "--ignore-errors" is specified.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of git-config's command line options use OPT_BIT to
choose an action, and then parse the non-option arguments
in a context-dependent way. However, --get-color and
--get-colorbool are unlike the rest of the options, in that
they are OPT_STRING, taking the option name as a parameter.
This generally works, because we then use the presence of
those strings to set an action bit anyway. But it does mean
that the option-parser will continue looking for options
even after the key (because it is not a non-option; it is an
argument to an option). And running:
git config --get-color some.key -1
(to use "-1" as the default color spec) will barf, claiming
that "-1" is not an option. Instead, we should treat
--get-color and --get-colorbool as action bits, just like
--add, --get, and all the other actions, and then check that
the non-option arguments we got are sane. This fixes the
weirdness above, and makes those two options like all the
others.
This "fixes" a test in t4026, which checked that feeding
"-2" as a color should fail (it does fail, but prior to this
patch, because parseopt barfed, not because we actually ever
tried to parse the color).
This also catches other errors, like:
git config --get-color some.key black blue
which previously silently ignored "blue" (and now will
complain that you gave too many arguments).
There are some possible regressions, though. We now disallow
these, which currently do what you would expect:
# specifying other options after the action
git config --get-color some.key --file whatever
# using long-arg syntax
git config --get-color=some.key
However, we have never advertised these in the
documentation, and in fact they did not work in some older
versions of git. The behavior was apparently switched as an
accidental side effect of d64ec16 (git config: reorganize to
use parseopt, 2009-02-21).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since time immemorial, the test of whether to set "core.filemode"
has been done by trying to toggle the u+x bit on $GIT_DIR/config,
which we know always exists, and then testing whether the change
"took". I find it somewhat odd to use the config file for this
test, but whatever.
The test code didn't set the u+x bit back to its original state
itself, instead relying on the subsequent call to git_config_set()
to re-write the config file with correct permissions.
But ever since
daa22c6f8d config: preserve config file permissions on edits (2014-05-06)
git_config_set() copies the permissions from the old config file to
the new one. This is a good change in and of itself, but it
invalidates the create_default_files()'s assumption, causing "git
init" to leave the executable bit set on $GIT_DIR/config.
Reset the permissions on $GIT_DIR/config when we are done with the
test in create_default_files().
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using abs() on long values can cause truncation, so use labs() instead.
Reported by Clang 3.5 (-Wabsolute-value, enabled by -Wall).
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we "git checkout $tree", we pull paths from $tree into
the index, and then check the resulting entries out to the
worktree. Our method for the first step is rather
heavy-handed, though; it clobbers the entire existing index
entry, even if the content is the same. This means we lose
our stat information, leading checkout_entry to later
rewrite the entire file with identical content.
Instead, let's see if we have the identical entry already in
the index, in which case we leave it in place. That lets
checkout_entry do the right thing. Our tests cover two
interesting cases:
1. We make sure that a file which has no changes is not
rewritten.
2. We make sure that we do update a file that is unchanged
in the index (versus $tree), but has working tree
changes. We keep the old index entry, and
checkout_entry is able to realize that our stat
information is out of date.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Corner-case bugfixes for "git fetch" around reflog handling.
* jk/fetch-reflog-df-conflict:
ignore stale directories when checking reflog existence
fetch: load all default config at startup
When we start the git-fetch program, we call git_config to
load all config, but our callback only processes the
fetch.prune option; we do not chain to git_default_config at
all.
This means that we may not load some core configuration
which will have an effect. For instance, we do not load
core.logAllRefUpdates, which impacts whether or not we
create reflogs in a bare repository.
Note that I said "may" above. It gets even more exciting. If
we have to transfer actual objects as part of the fetch,
then we call fetch_pack as part of the same process. That
function loads its own config, which does chain to
git_default_config, impacting global variables which are
used by the rest of fetch. But if the fetch is a pure ref
update (e.g., a new ref which is a copy of an old one), we
skip fetch_pack entirely. So we get inconsistent results
depending on whether or not we have actual objects to
transfer or not!
Let's just load the core config at the start of fetch, so we
know we have it (we may also load it again as part of
fetch_pack, but that's OK; it's designed to be idempotent).
Our tests check both cases (with and without a pack). We
also check similar behavior for push for good measure, but
it already works as expected.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tighten the logic to decide that an unreachable cruft is
sufficiently old by covering corner cases such as an ancient object
becoming reachable and then going unreachable again, in which case
its retention period should be prolonged.
* jk/prune-mtime: (28 commits)
drop add_object_array_with_mode
revision: remove definition of unused 'add_object' function
pack-objects: double-check options before discarding objects
repack: pack objects mentioned by the index
pack-objects: use argv_array
reachable: use revision machinery's --indexed-objects code
rev-list: add --indexed-objects option
rev-list: document --reflog option
t5516: test pushing a tag of an otherwise unreferenced blob
traverse_commit_list: support pending blobs/trees with paths
make add_object_array_with_context interface more sane
write_sha1_file: freshen existing objects
pack-objects: match prune logic for discarding objects
pack-objects: refactor unpack-unreachable expiration check
prune: keep objects reachable from recent objects
sha1_file: add for_each iterators for loose and packed objects
count-objects: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
count-objects: do not use xsize_t when counting object size
prune-packed: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
reachable: mark index blobs as SEEN
...
If the asynchronous start of copy_to_sideband() fails, then any
env_array entries added to struct child_process proc by
prepare_push_cert_sha1() are leaked. Call the latter function only
after start_async() succeeded so that the allocated entries are
cleaned up automatically by start_command() or finish_command().
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow us build with NO_PTHREADS=NoThanks compilation option.
* eb/no-pthreads:
Handle atexit list internaly for unthreaded builds
pack-objects: set number of threads before checking and warning
index-pack: fix compilation with NO_PTHREADS
Add managed "env" array to child_process to clarify the lifetime
rules.
* rs/run-command-env-array:
use env_array member of struct child_process
run-command: add env_array, an optional argv_array for env
Splitting pack-objects output into multiple packs is incompatible
with the use of reachability bitmap.
* jk/pack-objects-no-bitmap-when-splitting:
pack-objects: turn off bitmaps when we split packs
push --signed promises to take user.signingkey as the signing key but
fails to read the config.
Make it do so.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The API to update refs have been restructured to allow introducing
a true transactional updates later. We would even allow storing
refs in backends other than the traditional filesystem-based one.
* rs/ref-transaction: (25 commits)
ref_transaction_commit: bail out on failure to remove a ref
lockfile: remove unable_to_lock_error
refs.c: do not permit err == NULL
remote rm/prune: print a message when writing packed-refs fails
for-each-ref: skip and warn about broken ref names
refs.c: allow listing and deleting badly named refs
test: put tests for handling of bad ref names in one place
packed-ref cache: forbid dot-components in refnames
branch -d: simplify by using RESOLVE_REF_READING
branch -d: avoid repeated symref resolution
reflog test: test interaction with detached HEAD
refs.c: change resolve_ref_unsafe reading argument to be a flags field
refs.c: make write_ref_sha1 static
fetch.c: change s_update_ref to use a ref transaction
refs.c: ref_transaction_commit: distinguish name conflicts from other errors
refs.c: pass a list of names to skip to is_refname_available
refs.c: call lock_ref_sha1_basic directly from commit
refs.c: refuse to lock badly named refs in lock_ref_sha1_basic
rename_ref: don't ask read_ref_full where the ref came from
refs.c: pass the ref log message to _create/delete/update instead of _commit
...
A new filter to programatically edit the tail end of the commit log
messages.
* cc/interpret-trailers:
Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers'
trailer: add tests for commands in config file
trailer: execute command from 'trailer.<name>.command'
trailer: add tests for "git interpret-trailers"
trailer: add interpret-trailers command
trailer: put all the processing together and print
trailer: parse trailers from file or stdin
trailer: process command line trailer arguments
trailer: read and process config information
trailer: process trailers from input message and arguments
trailer: add data structures and basic functions
Wrap atexit()s calls on unthreaded builds to handle callback list
internally.
This is needed because on unthreaded builds, asyncs inherits parent's
atexit() list, that gets run as soon as the async exit()s (and again at
the end of async's parent process). That led to remove temporary files
too early.
Also remove a by-atexit-callback guard against this kind of issue in
clone.c, as this patch makes it redundant.
Fixes test 5537 (temporary shallow file vanished before unpack-objects
could open it)
BTW remove an unused variable in shallow.c.
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Etienne Buira <etienne.buira@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert users of struct child_process to using the managed env_array for
specifying environment variables instead of supplying an array on the
stack or bringing their own argv_array. This shortens and simplifies
the code and ensures automatically that the allocated memory is freed
after use.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a pack.packSizeLimit is set, we may split the pack data
across multiple packfiles. This means we cannot generate
.bitmap files, as they require that all of the reachable
objects are in the same pack. We check that condition when
we are generating the list of objects to pack (and disable
bitmaps if we are not packing everything), but we forgot to
update it when we notice that we needed to split (which
doesn't happen until the actual write phase).
The resulting bitmaps are quite bogus (they mention entries
that do not exist in the pack!) and can cause a fetch or
push to send insufficient objects.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we are given an expiration time like
--unpack-unreachable=2.weeks.ago, we avoid writing out old,
unreachable loose objects entirely, under the assumption
that running "prune" would simply delete them immediately
anyway. However, this is only valid if we computed the same
set of reachable objects as prune would.
In practice, this is the case, because only git-repack uses
the --unpack-unreachable option with an expiration, and it
always feeds as many objects into the pack as possible. But
we can double-check at runtime just to be sure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we pack all objects, we use only the objects reachable
from references and reflogs. This misses any objects which
are reachable from the index, but not yet referenced.
By itself this isn't a big deal; the objects can remain
loose until they are actually used in a commit. However, it
does create a problem when we drop packed but unreachable
objects. We try to optimize out the writing of objects that
we will immediately prune, which means we must follow the
same rules as prune in determining what is reachable. And
prune uses the index for this purpose.
This is rather uncommon in practice, as objects in the index
would not usually have been packed in the first place. But
it could happen in a sequence like:
1. You make a commit on a branch that references blob X.
2. You repack, moving X into the pack.
3. You delete the branch (and its reflog), so that X is
unreferenced.
4. You "git add" blob X so that it is now referenced only
by the index.
5. You repack again with git-gc. The pack-objects we
invoke will see that X is neither referenced nor
recent and not bother loosening it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This saves us from having to bump the rp_av count when we
add new traversal options.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git help everyday" to show the Everyday Git document.
* po/everyday-doc:
doc: add 'everyday' to 'git help'
doc: Makefile regularise OBSOLETE_HTML list building
doc: modernise everyday.txt wording and format in man page style
When you resolve a sha1, you can optionally keep any context
found during the resolution, including the path and mode of
a tree entry (e.g., when looking up "HEAD:subdir/file.c").
The add_object_array_with_context function lets you then
attach that context to an entry in a list. Unfortunately,
the interface for doing so is horrible. The object_context
structure is large and most object_array users do not use
it. Therefore we keep a pointer to the structure to avoid
burdening other users too much. But that means when we do
use it that we must allocate the struct ourselves. And the
struct contains a fixed PATH_MAX-sized buffer, which makes
this wholly unsuitable for any large arrays.
We can observe that there is only a single user of the
"with_context" variant: builtin/grep.c. And in that use
case, the only element we care about is the path. We can
therefore store only the path as a pointer (the context's
mode field was redundant with the object_array_entry itself,
and nobody actually cared about the surrounding tree). This
still requires a strdup of the pathname, but at least we are
only consuming the minimum amount of memory for each string.
We can also handle the copying ourselves in
add_object_array_*, and free it as appropriate in
object_array_release_entry.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A recent commit taught git-prune to keep non-recent objects
that are reachable from recent ones. However, pack-objects,
when loosening unreachable objects, tries to optimize out
the write in the case that the object will be immediately
pruned. It now gets this wrong, since its rule does not
reflect the new prune code (and this can be seen by running
t6501 with a strategically placed repack).
Let's teach pack-objects similar logic.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we are loosening unreachable packed objects, we do not
bother to process objects that would simply be pruned
immediately anyway. The "would be pruned" check is a simple
comparison, but is about to get more complicated. Let's pull
it out into a separate function.
Note that this is slightly less efficient than the original,
which avoided even opening old packs, since no object in
them could pass the current check, which cares only about
the pack mtime. But the new rules will depend on the exact
object, so we need to perform the check even for old packs.
Note also that we fix a minor buglet when the pack mtime is
exactly the same as the expiration time. The prune code
considers that worth pruning, whereas our check here
considered it worth keeping. This wasn't a big deal. Besides
being unlikely to happen, the result was simply that the
object was loosened and then pruned, missing the
optimization. Still, we can easily fix it while we are here.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our current strategy with prune is that an object falls into
one of three categories:
1. Reachable (from ref tips, reflogs, index, etc).
2. Not reachable, but recent (based on the --expire time).
3. Not reachable and not recent.
We keep objects from (1) and (2), but prune objects in (3).
The point of (2) is that these objects may be part of an
in-progress operation that has not yet updated any refs.
However, it is not always the case that objects for an
in-progress operation will have a recent mtime. For example,
the object database may have an old copy of a blob (from an
abandoned operation, a branch that was deleted, etc). If we
create a new tree that points to it, a simultaneous prune
will leave our tree, but delete the blob. Referencing that
tree with a commit will then work (we check that the tree is
in the object database, but not that all of its referred
objects are), as will mentioning the commit in a ref. But
the resulting repo is corrupt; we are missing the blob
reachable from a ref.
One way to solve this is to be more thorough when
referencing a sha1: make sure that not only do we have that
sha1, but that we have objects it refers to, and so forth
recursively. The problem is that this is very expensive.
Creating a parent link would require traversing the entire
object graph!
Instead, this patch pushes the extra work onto prune, which
runs less frequently (and has to look at the whole object
graph anyway). It creates a new category of objects: objects
which are not recent, but which are reachable from a recent
object. We do not prune these objects, just like the
reachable and recent ones.
This lets us avoid the recursive check above, because if we
have an object, even if it is unreachable, we should have
its referent. We can make a simple inductive argument that
with this patch, this property holds (that there are no
objects with missing referents in the repository):
0. When we have no objects, we have nothing to refer or be
referred to, so the property holds.
1. If we add objects to the repository, their direct
referents must generally exist (e.g., if you create a
tree, the blobs it references must exist; if you create
a commit to point at the tree, the tree must exist).
This is already the case before this patch. And it is
not 100% foolproof (you can make bogus objects using
`git hash-object`, for example), but it should be the
case for normal usage.
Therefore for any sequence of object additions, the
property will continue to hold.
2. If we remove objects from the repository, then we will
not remove a child object (like a blob) if an object
that refers to it is being kept. That is the part
implemented by this patch.
Note, however, that our reachability check and the
actual pruning are not atomic. So it _is_ still
possible to violate the property (e.g., an object
becomes referenced just as we are deleting it). This
patch is shooting for eliminating problems where the
mtimes of dependent objects differ by hours or days,
and one is dropped without the other. It does nothing
to help with short races.
Naively, the simplest way to implement this would be to add
all recent objects as tips to the reachability traversal.
However, this does not perform well. In a recently-packed
repository, all reachable objects will also be recent, and
therefore we have to look at each object twice. This patch
instead performs the reachability traversal, then follows up
with a second traversal for recent objects, skipping any
that have already been marked.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This drops our line count considerably, and should make
things more readable by keeping the counting logic separate
from the traversal.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of xsize_t is to safely cast an off_t into a size_t
(because we are about to mmap). But in count-objects, we are
summing the sizes in an off_t. Using xsize_t means that
count-objects could fail on a 32-bit system with a 4G
object (not likely, as other parts of git would fail, but
we should at least be correct here).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This saves us from manually traversing the directory
structure ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prune has to walk $GIT_DIR/objects/?? in order to find the
set of loose objects to prune. Other parts of the code
(e.g., count-objects) want to do the same. Let's factor it
out into a reusable for_each-style function.
Note that this is not quite a straight code movement. The
original code had strange behavior when it found a file of
the form "[0-9a-f]{2}/.{38}" that did _not_ contain all hex
digits. It executed a "break" from the loop, meaning that we
stopped pruning in that directory (but still pruned other
directories!). This was probably a bug; we do not want to
process the file as an object, but we should keep going
otherwise (and that is how the new code handles it).
We are also a little more careful with loose object
directories which fail to open. The original code silently
ignored any failures, but the new code will complain about
any problems besides ENOENT.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Until v2.1.0-rc0~22^2~11 (refs.c: add an err argument to
repack_without_refs, 2014-06-20), repack_without_refs forgot to
provide an error message when commit_packed_refs fails. Even today,
it only provides a message for callers that pass a non-NULL err
parameter. Internal callers in refs.c pass non-NULL err but
"git remote" does not.
That means that "git remote rm" and "git remote prune" can fail
without printing a message about why. Fix them by passing in a
non-NULL err parameter and printing the returned message.
This is the last caller to a ref handling function passing err ==
NULL. A later patch can drop support for err == NULL, avoiding such
problems in the future.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Print a warning message for any bad ref names we find in the repo and
skip them so callers don't have to deal with parsing them.
It might be useful in the future to have a flag where we would not
skip these refs for those callers that want to and are prepared (for
example by using a --format argument with %0 as a delimiter after the
ref name).
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We currently do not handle badly named refs well:
$ cp .git/refs/heads/master .git/refs/heads/master.....@\*@\\.
$ git branch
fatal: Reference has invalid format: 'refs/heads/master.....@*@\.'
$ git branch -D master.....@\*@\\.
error: branch 'master.....@*@\.' not found.
Users cannot recover from a badly named ref without manually finding
and deleting the loose ref file or appropriate line in packed-refs.
Making that easier will make it easier to tweak the ref naming rules
in the future, for example to forbid shell metacharacters like '`'
and '"', without putting people in a state that is hard to get out of.
So allow "branch --list" to show these refs and allow "branch -d/-D"
and "update-ref -d" to delete them. Other commands (for example to
rename refs) will continue to not handle these refs but can be changed
in later patches.
Details:
In resolving functions, refuse to resolve refs that don't pass the
git-check-ref-format(1) check unless the new RESOLVE_REF_ALLOW_BAD_NAME
flag is passed. Even with RESOLVE_REF_ALLOW_BAD_NAME, refuse to
resolve refs that escape the refs/ directory and do not match the
pattern [A-Z_]* (think "HEAD" and "MERGE_HEAD").
In locking functions, refuse to act on badly named refs unless they
are being deleted and either are in the refs/ directory or match [A-Z_]*.
Just like other invalid refs, flag resolved, badly named refs with the
REF_ISBROKEN flag, treat them as resolving to null_sha1, and skip them
in all iteration functions except for for_each_rawref.
Flag badly named refs (but not symrefs pointing to badly named refs)
with a REF_BAD_NAME flag to make it easier for future callers to
notice and handle them specially. For example, in a later patch
for-each-ref will use this flag to detect refs whose names can confuse
callers parsing for-each-ref output.
In the transaction API, refuse to create or update badly named refs,
but allow deleting them (unless they try to escape refs/ and don't match
[A-Z_]*).
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git branch -d" reads the branch it is about to delete, it used
to avoid passing the RESOLVE_REF_READING ('treat missing ref as
error') flag because a symref pointing to a nonexistent ref would show
up as missing instead of as something that could be deleted. To check
if a ref is actually missing, we then check
- is it a symref?
- if not, did it resolve to null_sha1?
Now we pass RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE and the correct information is
returned for a symref even when it points to a missing ref. Simplify
by relying on RESOLVE_REF_READING.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a repository gets in a broken state with too much symref nesting,
it cannot be repaired with "git branch -d":
$ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/nonsense refs/heads/nonsense
$ git branch -d nonsense
error: branch 'nonsense' not found.
Worse, "git update-ref --no-deref -d" doesn't work for such repairs
either:
$ git update-ref -d refs/heads/nonsense
error: unable to resolve reference refs/heads/nonsense: Too many levels of symbolic links
Fix both by teaching resolve_ref_unsafe a new RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE
flag and passing it when appropriate.
Callers can still read the value of a symref (for example to print a
message about it) with that flag set --- resolve_ref_unsafe will
resolve one level of symrefs and stop there.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
resolve_ref_unsafe takes a boolean argument for reading (a nonexistent ref
resolves successfully for writing but not for reading). Change this to be
a flags field instead, and pass the new constant RESOLVE_REF_READING when
we want this behaviour.
While at it, swap two of the arguments in the function to put output
arguments at the end. As a nice side effect, this ensures that we can
catch callers that were unaware of the new API so they can be audited.
Give the wrapper functions resolve_refdup and read_ref_full the same
treatment for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
