Builds on top of the sparse-index infrastructure to mark operations
that are not ready to mark with the sparse index, causing them to
fall back on fully-populated index that they always have worked with.
* ds/sparse-index-protections: (47 commits)
name-hash: use expand_to_path()
sparse-index: expand_to_path()
name-hash: don't add directories to name_hash
revision: ensure full index
resolve-undo: ensure full index
read-cache: ensure full index
pathspec: ensure full index
merge-recursive: ensure full index
entry: ensure full index
dir: ensure full index
update-index: ensure full index
stash: ensure full index
rm: ensure full index
merge-index: ensure full index
ls-files: ensure full index
grep: ensure full index
fsck: ensure full index
difftool: ensure full index
commit: ensure full index
checkout: ensure full index
...
The prefetch task in "git maintenance" assumed that "git fetch"
from any remote would fetch all its local branches, which would
fetch too much if the user is interested in only a subset of
branches there.
* ds/maintenance-prefetch-fix:
maintenance: respect remote.*.skipFetchAll
maintenance: use 'git fetch --prefetch'
fetch: add --prefetch option
maintenance: simplify prefetch logic
Documentation updates, with unrelated comment updates, too.
* ab/usage-error-docs:
api docs: document that BUG() emits a trace2 error event
api docs: document BUG() in api-error-handling.txt
usage.c: don't copy/paste the same comment three times
The 'prefetch' maintenance task previously forced the following refspec
for each remote:
+refs/heads/*:refs/prefetch/<remote>/*
If a user has specified a more strict refspec for the remote, then this
prefetch task downloads more objects than necessary.
The previous change introduced the '--prefetch' option to 'git fetch'
which manipulates the remote's refspec to place all resulting refs into
refs/prefetch/, with further partitioning based on the destinations of
those refspecs.
Update the documentation to be more generic about the destination refs.
Do not mention custom refspecs explicitly, as that does not need to be
highlighted in this documentation. The important part of placing refs in
refs/prefetch/ remains.
Reported-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --prefetch option will be used by the 'prefetch' maintenance task
instead of sending refspecs explicitly across the command-line. The
intention is to modify the refspec to place all results in
refs/prefetch/ instead of anywhere else.
Create helper method filter_prefetch_refspec() to modify a given refspec
to fit the rules expected of the prefetch task:
* Negative refspecs are preserved.
* Refspecs without a destination are removed.
* Refspecs whose source starts with "refs/tags/" are removed.
* Other refspecs are placed within "refs/prefetch/".
Finally, we add the 'force' option to ensure that prefetch refs are
replaced as necessary.
There are some interesting cases that are worth testing.
An earlier version of this change dropped the "i--" from the loop that
deletes a refspec item and shifts the remaining entries down. This
allowed some refspecs to not be modified. The subtle part about the
first --prefetch test is that the "refs/tags/*" refspec appears directly
before the "refs/heads/bogus/*" refspec. Without that "i--", this
ordering would remove the "refs/tags/*" refspec and leave the last one
unmodified, placing the result in "refs/heads/*".
It is possible to have an empty refspec. This is typically the case for
remotes other than the origin, where users want to fetch a specific tag
or branch. To correctly test this case, we need to further remove the
upstream remote for the local branch. Thus, we are testing a refspec
that will be deleted, leaving nothing to fetch.
Helped-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git apply" now takes "--3way" and "--cached" at the same time, and
work and record results only in the index.
* jz/apply-3way-cached:
git-apply: allow simultaneous --cached and --3way options
"git apply --3way" has always been "to fall back to 3-way merge
only when straight application fails". Swap the order of falling
back so that 3-way is always attempted first (only when the option
is given, of course) and then straight patch application is used as
a fallback when it fails.
* jz/apply-run-3way-first:
git-apply: try threeway first when "--3way" is used
The same "do not capitalize the first word" rule is applied to both
our patch titles and error messages, but the existing description
was fuzzy in two aspects.
* For error messages, it was not said that this was only about the
first word that begins the sentence.
* For both, it was not clear when a capital letter there was not an
error. We avoid capitalizing the first word when the only reason
you would capitalize it is because it happens to be the first
word in the sentence. If a proper noun, which is usually spelled
in capital letters, happens to come at the beginning of the
sentence, it should be kept in capital letters.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Edit and expand the sparse-index design document with the plan for
guarding index operations with ensure_full_index().
Notably, the plan has changed to not have an expand_to_path() method in
favor of checking for a sparse-directory hit inside of the
index_path_pos() API.
The changes that follow this one will incrementally add
ensure_full_index() guards to iterations over all cache entries. Some
iterations over the cache entries are not protected due to a few
categories listed in the document. Since these are not being modified,
here is a short list of the files and methods that will not receive
these guards:
Looking for non-zero stage:
* builtin/add.c:chmod_pathspec()
* builtin/merge.c:count_unmerged_entries()
* merge-ort.c:record_conflicted_index_entries()
* read-cache.c:unmerged_index()
* rerere.c:check_one_conflict(), find_conflict(), rerere_remaining()
* revision.c:prepare_show_merge()
* sequencer.c:append_conflicts_hint()
* wt-status.c:wt_status_collect_changes_initial()
Looking for submodules:
* builtin/submodule--helper.c:module_list_compute()
* submodule.c: several methods
* worktree.c:validate_no_submodules()
Part of the index API:
* name-hash.c: lazy init methods
* preload-index.c:preload_thread(), preload_index()
* read-cache.c: file format methods
Checking for correct order of cache entries:
* read-cache.c:check_ce_order()
Ignores SKIP_WORKTREE entries or already aware:
* unpack-trees.c:mark_new_skip_worktree()
* wt-status.c:wt_status_check_sparse_checkout()
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"gitweb" learned "e-mail privacy" feature to redact strings that
look like e-mail addresses on various pages.
* gk/gitweb-redacted-email:
gitweb: add "e-mail privacy" feature to redact e-mail addresses
A configuration variable has been added to force tips of certain
refs to be given a reachability bitmap.
* tb/pack-preferred-tips-to-give-bitmap:
builtin/pack-objects.c: respect 'pack.preferBitmapTips'
t/helper/test-bitmap.c: initial commit
pack-bitmap: add 'test_bitmap_commits()' helper
Correct documentation added in e544221d97 (trace2:
Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt, 2019-02-22) to state that
calling BUG() also emits an "error" event. See ee4512ed48 (trace2:
create new combined trace facility, 2019-02-22) for the initial
implementation.
The BUG() function did not emit an event then however, that was only
changed later in 0a9dde4a04 (usage: trace2 BUG() invocations,
2021-02-05), that commit changed the code, but didn't update any of
the docs.
Let's also add a cross-reference from api-error-handling.txt.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the BUG() function was added in d8193743e0 (usage.c: add BUG()
function, 2017-05-12) these docs added in 1f23cfe0ef (doc: document
error handling functions and conventions, 2014-12-03) were not
updated. Let's do that.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new method uses the update_index counter, which isn't susceptible to clock
inaccuracies.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gitweb extracts content from the Git log and makes it accessible
over HTTP. As a result, e-mail addresses found in commits are
exposed to web crawlers and they may not respect robots.txt.
This can result in unsolicited messages.
Introduce an 'email-privacy' feature which redacts e-mail addresses
from the generated HTML content. Specifically, obscure addresses
retrieved from the the author/committer and comment sections of the
Git log. The feature is off by default.
This feature does not prevent someone from downloading the
unredacted commit log, e.g., by cloning the repository, and
extracting information from it. It aims to hinder the low-
effort, bulk collection of e-mail addresses by web crawlers.
Signed-off-by: Georgios Kontaxis <geko1702+commits@99rst.org>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a diff driver for Scheme-like languages which recognizes top level
and local `define` forms, whether it is a function definition, binding,
syntax definition or a user-defined `define-xyzzy` form.
Also supports R6RS `library` forms, `module` forms along with class and
struct declarations used in Racket (PLT Scheme).
Alternate "def" syntax such as those in Gerbil Scheme are also
supported, like defstruct, defsyntax and so on.
The rationale for picking `define` forms for the hunk headers is because
it is usually the only significant form for defining the structure of
the program, and it is a common pattern for schemers to have local
function definitions to hide their visibility, so it is not only the top
level `define`'s that are of interest. Schemers also extend the language
with macros to provide their own define forms (for example, something
like a `define-test-suite`) which is also captured in the hunk header.
Since it is common practice to extend syntax with variants of a form
like `module+`, `class*` etc, those have been supported as well.
The word regex is a best-effort attempt to conform to R7RS[1] valid
identifiers, symbols and numbers.
[1] https://small.r7rs.org/attachment/r7rs.pdf (section 2.1)
Signed-off-by: Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone --reject-shallow" option fails the clone as soon as we
notice that we are cloning from a shallow repository.
* ll/clone-reject-shallow:
builtin/clone.c: add --reject-shallow option
An on-disk reverse-index to map the in-pack location of an object
back to its object name across multiple packfiles is introduced.
* tb/reverse-midx:
midx.c: improve cache locality in midx_pack_order_cmp()
pack-revindex: write multi-pack reverse indexes
pack-write.c: extract 'write_rev_file_order'
pack-revindex: read multi-pack reverse indexes
Documentation/technical: describe multi-pack reverse indexes
midx: make some functions non-static
midx: keep track of the checksum
midx: don't free midx_name early
midx: allow marking a pack as preferred
t/helper/test-read-midx.c: add '--show-objects'
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: display usage on unrecognized command
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: don't enter bogus cmd_mode
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: split sub-commands
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: define common usage with a macro
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: don't handle 'progress' separately
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: inline 'flags' with options
"git apply" does not allow "--cached" and "--3way" to be used
together, since "--3way" writes conflict markers into the working
tree.
Allow "git apply" to accept "--cached" and "--3way" at the same
time. When a single file auto-resolves cleanly, the result is
placed in the index at stage #0 and the command exits with 0 status.
For a file that has a conflict which cannot be cleanly
auto-resolved, the original contents from common ancestor (stage
conflict at the content level, and the command exists with non-zero
status, because there is no place (like the working tree) to leave a
half-resolved merge for the user to resolve.
The user can use `git diff` to view the contents of the conflict, or
`git checkout -m -- .` to regenerate the conflict markers in the
working directory.
Don't attempt rerere in this case since it depends on conflict
markers written to file for its database storage and lookup. There
would be two main changes required to get rerere working:
1. Allow the rerere api to accept in memory object rather than
files, which would allow us to pass in the conflict markers
contained in the result from ll_merge().
2. Rerere can't write to the working directory, so it would have to
apply the result to cache stage #0 directly. A flag would be
needed to control this.
Signed-off-by: Jerry Zhang <jerry@skydio.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
SECURITY.md that is facing individual contributors and end users
has been introduced. Also a procedure to follow when preparing
embargoed releases has been spelled out.
* js/security-md:
Document how we do embargoed releases
SECURITY: describe how to report vulnerabilities
"git commit" learned "--trailer <key>[=<value>]" option; together
with the interpret-trailers command, this will make it easier to
support custom trailers.
* zh/commit-trailer:
commit: add --trailer option
The apply_fragments() method of "git apply"
can silently apply patches incorrectly if
a file has repeating contents. In these
cases a three-way merge is capable of applying
it correctly in more situations, and will
show a conflict rather than applying it
incorrectly. However, because the patches
apply "successfully" using apply_fragments(),
git will never fall back to the merge, even
if the "--3way" flag is used, and the user has
no way to ensure correctness by forcing the
three-way merge method.
Change the behavior so that when "--3way" is used,
git will always try the three-way merge first and
will only fall back to apply_fragments() in cases
where blobs are not available or some other error
(but not in the case of a merge conflict).
Since user-facing results will be different,
this has backwards compatibility implications
for users depending on the old behavior. In
addition, the three-way merge will be slower
than direct patch application.
Signed-off-by: Jerry Zhang <jerry@skydio.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two among the three warnings raised by "make git.info" are related to the fact
that the preface has not id in user-manual.txt.
user-manual.texi:15: warning: empty menu entry name in `* : idm4.'
user-manual.texi:141: warning: @unnumbered missing argument
This causes asciidoc creating an empty preface and an empty title tag in
user-manual.xml which turns to be an empty node in user-manual.texi and
git.info. Consequently, one can notice in user-manual.texi and git.info
a node named "idm4" in the menu and the navigation bar. In emacs, the
first entry of the menu in the git info page is even displayed as empty.
This fix will name "Introduction" the preface and assign it an id.
The result can be seen in the files: user-manual.{xml, texi, html, pdf}
and git.info.
For future reference, the diff between old and new user-manual.xml,
user-manual.texi, git.info, user-manual.html (converted through
html2markdown) and user-manual.pdf (converted through pdftotext) are
attached.
--- before/user-manual.xml 2021-04-04 03:58:47.758008722 +0200
+++ after/user-manual.xml 2021-04-04 03:56:40.520551163 +0200
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
<bookinfo>
<title>Git User Manual</title>
</bookinfo>
-<preface>
-<title></title>
+<preface id="_introduction">
+<title>Introduction</title>
<simpara>Git is a fast distributed revision control system.</simpara>
<simpara>This manual is designed to be readable by someone with basic UNIX
command-line skills, but no previous knowledge of Git.</simpara>
--- before/user-manual.texi 2021-04-04 03:58:47.490005652 +0200
+++ after/user-manual.texi 2021-04-04 03:56:40.520551163 +0200
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
* Git: (git). A fast distributed revision control system
@end direntry
-@node Top, idm4, , (dir)
+@node Top, Introduction, , (dir)
@documentlanguage en
@top Git User Manual
@menu
-* : idm4.
+* Introduction::
* Repositories and Branches::
* Exploring Git history::
* Developing with Git::
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@
@end detailmenu
@end menu
-@node idm4, Repositories and Branches, Top, Top
-@unnumbered
+@node Introduction, Repositories and Branches, Top, Top
+@unnumbered Introduction
Git is a fast distributed revision control system.
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
Finally, see @ref{Notes and todo list for this manual} for ways that you can help make this manual more
complete.
-@node Repositories and Branches, Exploring Git history, idm4, Top
+@node Repositories and Branches, Exploring Git history, Introduction, Top
@chapter Repositories and Branches
@menu
--- before/git.info 2021-04-04 03:58:46.557994966 +0200
+++ after/git.info 2021-04-04 03:56:40.520551163 +0200
@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
-File: git.info, Node: Top, Next: idm4, Up: (dir)
+File: git.info, Node: Top, Next: Introduction, Up: (dir)
Git User Manual
***************
* Menu:
-* : idm4.
+* Introduction::
* Repositories and Branches::
* Exploring Git history::
* Developing with Git::
@@ -137,7 +137,10 @@
-File: git.info, Node: idm4, Next: Repositories and Branches, Prev: Top, Up: Top
+File: git.info, Node: Introduction, Next: Repositories and Branches, Prev: Top, Up: Top
+
+Introduction
+************
Git is a fast distributed revision control system.
@@ -174,7 +177,7 @@
that you can help make this manual more complete.
-File: git.info, Node: Repositories and Branches, Next: Exploring Git history, Prev: idm4, Up: Top
+File: git.info, Node: Repositories and Branches, Next: Exploring Git history, Prev: Introduction, Up: Top
1 Repositories and Branches
***************************
@@ -5471,207 +5474,207 @@
...
Tag Table:
Node: Top212
-Node: idm43164
-Node: Repositories and Branches4465
...
+Node: Introduction3179
+Node: Repositories and Branches4515
+Node: How to get a Git repository5128
...
End Tag Table
--- before/user-manual.html.md 2021-04-04 05:20:55.378695854 +0200
+++ after/user-manual.html.md 2021-04-04 05:21:11.282850802 +0200
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
**Table of Contents**
+Introduction
+
1\. Repositories and Branches
@@ -278,7 +280,7 @@
Todo list
-#
+# Introduction
Git is a fast distributed revision control system.
--- before/user-manual.pdf.txt 2021-04-04 05:28:20.367036836 +0200
+++ after/user-manual.pdf.txt 2021-04-04 05:30:01.680026312 +0200
@@ -487,6 +487,7 @@
vii
+Introduction
Git is a fast distributed revision control system.
This manual is designed to be readable by someone with basic UNIX command-line skills, but no previous knowledge of Git.
Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 explain how to fetch and study a project using git—read these chapters to learn how to build and test a
Signed-off-by: Firmin Martin <firminmartin24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git format-patch -v<n>" learned to allow a reroll count that is
not an integer.
* zh/format-patch-fractional-reroll-count:
format-patch: allow a non-integral version numbers
A simple IPC interface gets introduced to build services like
fsmonitor on top.
* jh/simple-ipc:
t0052: add simple-ipc tests and t/helper/test-simple-ipc tool
simple-ipc: add Unix domain socket implementation
unix-stream-server: create unix domain socket under lock
unix-socket: disallow chdir() when creating unix domain sockets
unix-socket: add backlog size option to unix_stream_listen()
unix-socket: eliminate static unix_stream_socket() helper function
simple-ipc: add win32 implementation
simple-ipc: design documentation for new IPC mechanism
pkt-line: add options argument to read_packetized_to_strbuf()
pkt-line: add PACKET_READ_GENTLE_ON_READ_ERROR option
pkt-line: do not issue flush packets in write_packetized_*()
pkt-line: eliminate the need for static buffer in packet_write_gently()
As a prerequisite to implementing multi-pack bitmaps, motivate and
describe the format and ordering of the multi-pack reverse index.
The subsequent patch will implement reading this format, and the patch
after that will implement writing it while producing a multi-pack index.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When multiple packs in the multi-pack index contain the same object, the
MIDX machinery must make a choice about which pack it associates with
that object. Prior to this patch, the lowest-ordered[1] pack was always
selected.
Pack selection for duplicate objects is relatively unimportant today,
but it will become important for multi-pack bitmaps. This is because we
can only invoke the pack-reuse mechanism when all of the bits for reused
objects come from the reuse pack (in order to ensure that all reused
deltas can find their base objects in the same pack).
To encourage the pack selection process to prefer one pack over another
(the pack to be preferred is the one a caller would like to later use as
a reuse pack), introduce the concept of a "preferred pack". When
provided, the MIDX code will always prefer an object found in a
preferred pack over any other.
No format changes are required to store the preferred pack, since it
will be able to be inferred with a corresponding MIDX bitmap, by looking
up the pack associated with the object in the first bit position (this
ordering is described in detail in a subsequent commit).
[1]: the ordering is specified by MIDX internals; for our purposes we
can consider the "lowest ordered" pack to be "the one with the
most-recent mtime.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some scenarios, users may want more history than the repository
offered for cloning, which happens to be a shallow repository, can
give them. But because users don't know it is a shallow repository
until they download it to local, we may want to refuse to clone
this kind of repository, without creating any unnecessary files.
The '--depth=x' option cannot be used as a solution; the source may
be deep enough to give us 'x' commits when cloned, but the user may
later need to deepen the history to arbitrary depth.
Teach '--reject-shallow' option to "git clone" to abort as soon as
we find out that we are cloning from a shallow repository.
Signed-off-by: Li Linchao <lilinchao@oschina.cn>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When writing a new pack with a bitmap, it is sometimes convenient to
indicate some reference prefixes which should receive priority when
selecting which commits to receive bitmaps.
A truly motivated caller could accomplish this by setting
'pack.islandCore', (since all commits in the core island are similarly
marked as preferred) but this requires callers to opt into using delta
islands, which they may or may not want to do.
Introduce a new multi-valued configuration, 'pack.preferBitmapTips' to
allow callers to specify a list of reference prefixes. All references
which have a prefix contained in 'pack.preferBitmapTips' will mark their
tips as "preferred" in the same way as commits are marked as preferred
for selection by 'pack.islandCore'.
The choice of the verb "prefer" is intentional: marking the NEEDS_BITMAP
flag on an object does *not* guarantee that that object will receive a
bitmap. It merely guarantees that that commit will receive a bitmap over
any *other* commit in the same window by bitmap_writer_select_commits().
The test this patch adds reflects this quirk, too. It only tests that
a commit (which didn't receive bitmaps by default) is selected for
bitmaps after changing the value of 'pack.preferBitmapTips' to include
it. Other commits may lose their bitmaps as a byproduct of how the
selection process works (bitmap_writer_select_commits() ignores the
remainder of a window after seeing a commit with the NEEDS_BITMAP flag).
This configuration will aide in selecting important references for
multi-pack bitmaps, since they do not respect the same pack.islandCore
configuration. (They could, but doing so may be confusing, since it is
packs--not bitmaps--which are influenced by the delta-islands
configuration).
In a fork network repository (one which lists all forks of a given
repository as remotes), for example, it is useful to set
pack.preferBitmapTips to 'refs/remotes/<root>/heads' and
'refs/remotes/<root>/tags', where '<root>' is an opaque identifier
referring to the repository which is at the base of the fork chain.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explain pieces of the format-patch output upfront before the rest
of the documentation starts referring to them.
* jc/doc-format-patch-clarify:
format-patch: give an overview of what a "patch" message is
Remove the final hint that we used to have a scripted "git rebase".
* ab/remove-rebase-usebuiltin:
rebase: remove transitory rebase.useBuiltin setting & env
The sparse index extension is used to signal that index writes should be
in sparse mode. This was only updated using GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX=1.
Add a '--[no-]sparse-index' option to 'git sparse-checkout init' that
specifies if the sparse index should be used. It also updates the index
to use the correct format, either way. Add a warning in the
documentation that the use of a repository extension might reduce
compatibility with third-party tools. 'git sparse-checkout init' already
sets extension.worktreeConfig, which places most sparse-checkout users
outside of the scope of most third-party tools.
Update t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh to use this CLI instead of
GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX=1.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When enabled, this config option signals that index writes should
attempt to use sparse-directory entries.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The index format does not currently allow for sparse directory entries.
This violates some expectations that older versions of Git or
third-party tools might not understand. We need an indicator inside the
index file to warn these tools to not interact with a sparse index
unless they are aware of sparse directory entries.
Add a new _required_ index extension, 'sdir', that indicates that the
index may contain sparse directory entries. This allows us to continue
to use the differences in index formats 2, 3, and 4 before we create a
new index version 5 in a later change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This begins a long effort to update the index format to allow sparse
directory entries. This should result in a significant improvement to
Git commands when HEAD contains millions of files, but the user has
selected many fewer files to keep in their sparse-checkout definition.
Currently, the index format is only updated in the presence of
extensions.sparseIndex instead of increasing a file format version
number. This is temporary, and index v5 is part of the plan for future
work in this area.
The design document details many of the reasons for embarking on this
work, and also the plan for completing it safely.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Whenever we fix critical vulnerabilities, we follow some sort of
protocol (e.g. setting a coordinated release date, keeping the fix under
embargo until that time, coordinating with packagers and/or hosting
sites, etc).
Similar in spirit to `Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt`, let's
formalize the details in a document.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
