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Jonathan Nieder
e62b393505 Show usage string for 'git show-ref -h'
This only changes the behavior of "git show-ref -h" without any
other options and arguments.

"show-ref -h" currently is short for "show-ref --head", which
shows all the refs/* and HEAD, as opposed to "show-ref" that
shows all the refs/* and not HEAD.

Does anybody use "show-ref -h"?  It was in Linus's original, most
likely only because "it might be handy", not because "the command
should not show the HEAD by default for such and such reasons".
So I think it is okay if "show-ref -h" (but not "show-ref
--head") gives help and exits.

If a current script uses "git show-ref -h" without any other
arguments, it would have to be adapted by changing "-h" to
"--head".

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-09 17:08:53 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
20c7e3d5cf Show usage string for 'git merge-ours -h'
This change is strictly about 'git merge-ours -h' without
any other options and arguments.

This change cannot break compatibility since merge drivers are
always passed '--', among other arguments.

Any usage string for this command is a lie, since it ignored its
arguments until now.  Still, it makes sense to let the user know
the expected usage when asked.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-09 17:08:45 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
6e9daeffec Show usage string for 'git commit-tree -h'
Treat an "-h" option as a request for help, rather than a "Not a
valid object name" error.

"commit-tree -h" could be asking to create a new commit from a
treeish named "-h".  Strictly speaking, such a pathological ref
name is possible, but the user would have to had said something
like "tags/-h" to name such a pathological already.  commit-tree
is usually used in scripts with raw object ids, anyway.

For consistency, the "-h" option uses its new meaning even if
followed by other arguments.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-09 17:08:44 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
fef34270f2 Show usage string for 'git cherry -h'
Treat an "-h" option as a request for help, rather than an
"Unknown commit -h" error.

"cherry -h" could be asking to compare histories that leads to
our HEAD and a commit that can be named as "-h".  Strictly
speaking, that may be a valid refname, but the user would have to
say something like "tags/-h" to name such a pathological ref
already, so it is not such a big deal.

The "-h" option keeps its meaning even if preceded by other
options or followed by other arguments.  This keeps the
command-line syntax closer to what parse_options would give and
supports shell aliases like 'alias cherry="git cherry -v"' a
little better.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-09 17:08:44 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
9c855c3178 Show usage string for 'git grep -h'
Clarification: the following description only talks about "git
grep -h" without any other options and arguments.

Such a change cannot be breaking backward compatibility.  "grep
-h" cannot be asking for suppressing filenames, as there is no
match pattern specified.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-09 17:08:44 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
fe9a215214 Retire fetch--tool helper to contrib/examples
When git-fetch was builtin-ized, the previous script was moved to
contrib/examples.  Now, it is the sole remaining user for
'git fetch--tool'.

The fetch--tool code is still worth keeping around so people can
try out the old git-fetch.sh, for example when investigating
regressions from the builtinifaction.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-09 17:08:44 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
203666352f t5551-http-fetch: Work around broken Accept header in libcurl
Unfortunately at least one version of libcurl has a bug causing
it to include "Accept: */*" in the same POST request where we have
already asked for "Accept: application/x-git-upload-pack-response".

This is a bug in libcurl, not Git, or our test vector.  The
application has explicitly asked the server for a single content
type, but libcurl has mistakenly also told the server the client
application will accept */*, which is any content type.

Based on the libcurl change log, this "Accept: */*" header bug
may have been fixed in version 7.18.1 released March 30, 2008:

  http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html#7_18_1

Rather than require users to upgrade libcurl we change the test
vector to trim this line out of the 2nd request.

Reported-by: Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-09 16:41:13 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
0a8fcbdca2 t5551-http-fetch: Work around some libcurl versions
Some versions of libcurl report their output when GIT_CURL_VERBOSE
is set differently than other versions do.  At least one variant
(version unknown but likely pre-7.18.1) reports the POST payload to
stderr, and omits the blank line after each HTTP request/response.
We clip these lines out of the stderr output now before doing the
compare, so we aren't surprised by this trivial difference.

Reported-by: Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-09 16:40:49 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
34b6cb8bb0 http-backend: Protect GIT_PROJECT_ROOT from /../ requests
Eons ago HPA taught git-daemon how to protect itself from /../
attacks, which Junio brought back into service in d79374c7b5
("daemon.c and path.enter_repo(): revamp path validation").

I did not carry this into git-http-backend as originally we relied
only upon PATH_TRANSLATED, and assumed the HTTP server had done
its access control checks to validate the resolved path was within
a directory permitting access from the remote client.  This would
usually be sufficient to protect a server from requests for its
/etc/passwd file by http://host/smart/../etc/passwd sorts of URLs.

However in 917adc0360 Mark Lodato added GIT_PROJECT_ROOT as an
additional method of configuring the CGI.  When this environment
variable is used the web server does not generate the final access
path and therefore may blindly pass through "/../etc/passwd"
in PATH_INFO under the assumption that "/../" might have special
meaning to the invoked CGI.

Instead of permitting these sorts of malformed path requests, we
now reject them back at the client, with an error message for the
server log.  This matches git-daemon behavior.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-09 16:37:33 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
92815b3363 Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport
http-backend: Fix symbol clash on AIX 5.3

Mike says:

 > > +static void send_file(const char *the_type, const char *name)
 > > +{
 >
 > I think a symbol clash here is responsible for a build breakage in
 > next on AIX 5.3:
 >
 > CC http-backend.o
 > http-backend.c:213: error: conflicting types for `send_file'
 > /usr/include/sys/socket.h:676: error: previous declaration of `send_file'
 > gmake: *** [http-backend.o] Error 1

So we rename the function send_local_file().

Reported-by: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-09 09:30:01 -08:00
Mark Rada
b629275fd0 gitweb: Smarter snapshot names
Teach gitweb how to produce nicer snapshot names by only using the
short hash id.  If clients make requests using a tree-ish that is not
a partial or full SHA-1 hash, then the short hash will also be appended
to whatever they asked for.  If clients request snapshot of a tag
(which means that $hash ('h') parameter has 'refs/tags/' prefix),
use only tag name.

Update tests cases in t9502-gitweb-standalone-parse-output.

Gitweb uses the following format for snapshot filenames:
  <sanitized project name>-<version info>.<snapshot suffix>
where <sanitized project name> is project name with '.git' or '/.git'
suffix stripped, unless '.git' is the whole project name.  For
snapshot prefix it uses:
  <sanitized project name>-<version info>/
as compared to <sanitized project name>/ before (without version info).

Current rules for <version info>:
* if 'h' / $hash parameter is SHA-1 or shortened SHA-1, use SHA-1
  shortened to to 7 characters
* otherwise if 'h' / $hash parameter is tag name (it begins with
  'refs/tags/' prefix, use tag name (with 'refs/tags/' stripped
* otherwise if 'h' / $hash parameter starts with 'refs/heads/' prefix,
  strip this prefix, convert '/' into '.', and append shortened SHA-1
  after '-', i.e. use <sanitized hash>-<shortened sha1>

Signed-off-by: Mark Rada <marada@uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 19:22:45 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
3ce9450a81 gitweb: Document current snapshot rules via new tests
Add t9502-gitweb-standalone-parse-output test script, which runs
gitweb as a CGI script from the commandline and checks that it
produces the correct output.

Currently this test script contains only tests of snapshot naming
(proposed name of snapshot file) and snapshot prefix (prefix of files
in the archive / snapshot).  It defines and uses 'tar' snapshot
format, without compression, for easy checking of snapshot prefix.
Testing is done using check_snapshot function.

Gitweb uses the following format for snapshot filenames:
  <sanitized project name>-<hash parameter><snapshot suffix>
where <sanitized project name> is project name with '.git' or '/.git'
suffix stripped, unless '.git' is the whole project name.  For
snapshot prefix it uses simply:
  <sanitized project name>/

Disadvantages of current snapshot rules:
* There exists convention that <basename>.<suffix> archive unpacks to
  <basename>/ directory (<basename>/ is prefix of archive).  Gitweb
  does not respect it
* Snapshot links generated by gitweb use full SHA-1 id as a value of
  'h' / $hash parameter.  With current rules it leads to long file
  names like e.g. repo-1005c80cc11c531d327b12195027cbbb4ff9e3cb.tgz
* For handcrafted URLs, where 'h' / $hash parameter is a symbolic
  'volatile' revision name such as "HEAD" or "next" snapshot name
  doesn't tell us what exact version it was created from
* Proposed filename in Content-Disposition header should not contain
  any directory path information, which means that it should not
  contain '/' (see RFC2183)... which means that snapshot naming is
  broken for $hash being e.g. hirearchical branch name such as
  'xx/test'

This would be improved in next commit.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 19:22:33 -08:00
Christian Couder
69a9cd31b1 Documentation: add "Fighting regressions with git bisect" article
This patch adds an asciidoc version of the "Fighting regressions with
git bisect" article that the author wrote for the Linux-Kongress
2009 (http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009).

This paper might be interesting to people who want to learn as much as
possible about "git bisect" from a single document.

The slides of the related presentation are available at:

http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/slides/fighting_regressions_with_git_bisect_christian_couder.pdf

But the Linux Kongress people will not publish this paper online because
they print the papers on their UpTimes magazine
(http://www.lob.de/isbn/978-3-86541-358-1). But they don't take away the
rights of the author (which is very nice), so I have the right to publish
it.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 18:29:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bb471bf74f Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Add intermediate build products to .gitignore
2009-11-08 18:16:04 -08:00
Ramsay Jones
b1b952043f MSVC: Add support for building with NO_MMAP
When the NO_MMAP build variable is set, the msvc linker complains:

    error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _getpagesize

The msvc libraries do not define the getpagesize() function,
so we move the mingw_getpagesize() implementation from the
conditionally built win32mmap.c file to mingw.c.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 17:59:12 -08:00
Ramsay Jones
d691d84eed Makefile: keep MSVC and Cygwin configuration separate
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 17:59:11 -08:00
Ramsay Jones
035b76b03f Makefile: merge two Cygwin configuration sections into one
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 17:58:42 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
f9bbaa384e Add intermediate build products to .gitignore
Temporaries such as configure.ac+ and Documentation/*.xml+
sometimes remain after an interrupted build.  Tell git not to
track them.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 17:04:50 -08:00
Jeff King
1d46f2ea14 format-patch: make "-p" suppress diffstat
Once upon a time, format-patch would use its default stat
plus patch format only when no diff format was given on the
command line. This meant that "format-patch -p" would
suppress the stat and show just the patch.

Commit 68daa64 changed this to keep the stat format when we
had an "implicit" patch format, like "-U5". As a side
effect, this meant that an explicit patch format was now
ignored (because cmd_format_patch didn't know the reason
that the format was set way down in diff_opt_parse).

This patch unbreaks what 68daa64 did (while still preserving
what 68daa64 was trying to do), reinstating "-p" to suppress
the default behavior. We do this by parsing "-p" ourselves
in format-patch, and noting whether it was used explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 17:01:36 -08:00
René Scharfe
32ca424912 log --format: don't ignore %w() at the start of format string
This fixes e.g. --format='%w(72)%s'.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 16:51:33 -08:00
Björn Steinbrink
c30eb852e2 pre-commit.sample: Diff against the empty tree when HEAD is invalid
This was already the case for the old "diff --check" call, but the new
one that checks whether there are any non-ascii file names was missing
it, making that check fail for root commits.

Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-06 23:48:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6e31f3dbb5 Merge branch 'jc/commit-s-subject-is-not-a-footer'
* jc/commit-s-subject-is-not-a-footer:
  builtin-commit.c: fix logic to omit empty line before existing footers
2009-11-06 23:17:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e5138436dd builtin-commit.c: fix logic to omit empty line before existing footers
"commit -s" used to add an empty line before adding S-o-b line only when
the last line of the existing log message is not another S-o-b line, but
c1e01b0 (commit: More generous accepting of RFC-2822 footer lines.,
2009-10-28) introduced logic to omit this empty line when the message ends
with a run of "footer" lines, to cover S-o-b's friends, e.g. Acked-by.

However, the logic was overzealous and missed one corner case.  A message
that consists of a single line that begins with Token + colon, it can be
mistaken as a S-o-b's friend.  We do want an empty line in such a case.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-06 23:17:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5c5dd6e5a4 t1200: prepare for merging with Fast-forward bikeshedding
A tree-wide bikeshedding to replace "fast forward" into "fast-forward" is
in 'master'.  Since we want to keep this "test modernization" series
mergeable also to the maintenance track, we would need to tweak the test
to accept both old spellings and new spellings.

Sigh...  This kind of headache is the primary reason we try not to allow
such a tree-wide bike-shedding, but the damage has already been done.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-06 23:01:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b9f3bde150 t1200: further modernize test script style
Instead of using bare "cmp", use "test_cmp".  Output when the test is run
with a -v option becomes easier to diagnose when something goes wrong
because on saner platforms test_cmp uses "diff -u".

There is no need to put an extra backslash to a line that ends with a '|'
(i.e. the upstream of a pipe).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-06 22:53:53 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
7c5858a643 t1200: Make documentation and test agree
There were some differences between t1200 and the gitcore-tutorial. Add
missing tests for manually merging two branches, and use the same
commands in both files.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-06 22:44:34 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
1a994dc3d2 t1200: cleanup and modernize test style
Many parts of the tests in t1200 are run outside the test harness,
circumventing the usefulness of -v and spewing messages to stdout when
-v isn't used. Fix these problems by modernizing the test a bit.

An extra test_done has existed since commit 6a74642 (git-commit --amend:
two fixes., 2006-04-20) leading to the last 6 tests never being run.
Remove it and teach the resolve merge test about fast-forward merges.
Also fix the last test's incorrect find command and prune before
checking for unpacked objects so we remove the unreachable conflict-marked
blob.

Finally, we remove the TODO notes, because fetch, push, and clone have
their own tests since t1200 was introduced and we're not going to add
them here 4 years later.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-06 22:44:34 -08:00
Petr Baudis
b9759f0762 gitweb: Fix blob linenr links in pathinfo mode
In pathinfo mode, we use <base href> that refers to the base location
of gitweb in order for various external media links to work well.
However, this means that for the page to refer to itself, it must
regenerate full link, and this is exactly what the blob view page
did not do for line numbers.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-06 09:56:34 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
ef0555712c pack-objects: move thread autodetection closer to relevant code
Let's keep thread stuff close together if possible.  And in this case,
this even reduces the #ifdef noise, and allows for skipping the
autodetection altogether if delta search is not needed (like with a pure
clone).

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-05 23:11:42 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
7f640b778f http-backend: Test configuration options
Test the major configuration settings which control access to
the repository:

  http.getanyfile
  http.uploadpack
  http.receivepack

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:16 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
5abb013b3d http-backend: Use http.getanyfile to disable dumb HTTP serving
Some repository owners may wish to enable smart HTTP, but disallow
dumb content serving.  Disallowing dumb serving might be because
the owners want to rely upon reachability to control which objects
clients may access from the repository, or they just want to
encourage clients to use the more bandwidth efficient transport.

If http.getanyfile is set to false the backend CGI will return with
'403 Forbidden' when an object file is accessed by a dumb client.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:16 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
7da4e2280c test smart http fetch and push
The top level directory "/smart/" of the test Apache server is mapped
through our git-http-backend CGI, but uses the same underlying
repository space as the server's document root.  This is the most
simple installation possible.

Server logs are checked to verify the client has accessed only the
smart URLs during the test.  During fetch testing the headers are
also logged from libcurl to ensure we are making a reasonably sane
HTTP request, and getting back reasonably sane response headers
from the CGI.

When validating the request headers used during smart fetch we munge
away the actual Content-Length and replace it with the placeholder
"xxx".  This avoids unnecessary varability in the test caused by
an unrelated change in the requested capabilities in the first want
line of the request.  However, we still want to look for and verify
that Content-Length was used, because smaller payloads should be
using Content-Length and not "Transfer-Encoding: chunked".

When validating the server response headers we must discard both
Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding, as Apache2 can use either
format to return our response.

During development of this test I observed Apache returning both
forms, depending on when the processes got CPU time.  If our CGI
returned the pack data quickly, Apache just buffered the whole
thing and returned a Content-Length.  If our CGI took just a bit
too long to complete, Apache flushed its buffer and instead used
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked".

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:16 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
024bb12566 http tests: use /dumb/ URL prefix
To clarify what part of the HTTP transprot is being tested we change
the URLs used by existing tests to include /dumb/ at the start,
indicating they use the non-Git aware code paths.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:16 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
859d1fb427 set httpd port before sourcing lib-httpd
If LIB_HTTPD_PORT is not set already, lib-httpd will set it to the
default 8111.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:16 -08:00
Tay Ray Chuan
eeb3aeddb2 t5540-http-push: remove redundant fetches
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
b8538603a3 Smart HTTP fetch: gzip requests
The upload-pack requests are mostly plain text and they compress
rather well.  Deflating them with Content-Encoding: gzip can easily
drop the size of the request by 50%, reducing the amount of data
to transfer as we negotiate the common commits.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
249b2004d8 Smart fetch over HTTP: client side
The git-remote-curl backend detects if the remote server supports
the git-upload-pack service, and if so, runs git-fetch-pack locally
in a pipe to generate the want/have commands.

The advertisements from the server that were obtained during the
discovery are passed into git-fetch-pack before the POST request
starts, permitting server capability discovery and enablement.

Common objects that are discovered are appended onto the request as
have lines and are sent again on the next request.  This allows the
remote side to reinitialize its in-memory list of common objects
during the next request.

Because all requests are relatively short, below git-remote-curl's
1 MiB buffer limit, requests will use the standard Content-Length
header and be valid HTTP/1.0 POST requests.  This makes the fetch
client more tolerant of proxy servers which don't support HTTP/1.1
or the chunked transfer encoding.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
de1a2fdd38 Smart push over HTTP: client side
The git-remote-curl backend detects if the remote server supports
the git-receive-pack service, and if so, runs git-send-pack in a
pipe to dump the command and pack data as a single POST request.

The advertisements from the server that were obtained during the
discovery are passed into git-send-pack before the POST request
starts.  This permits git-send-pack to operate largely unmodified.

For smaller packs (those under 1 MiB) a HTTP/1.0 POST with a
Content-Length is used, permitting interaction with any server.
The 1 MiB limit is arbitrary, but is sufficent to fit most deltas
created by human authors against text sources with the occasional
small binary file (e.g. few KiB icon image).  The configuration
option http.postBuffer can be used to increase (or shink) this
buffer if the default is not sufficient.

For larger packs which cannot be spooled entirely into the helper's
memory space (due to http.postBuffer being too small), the POST
request requires HTTP/1.1 and sets "Transfer-Encoding: chunked".
This permits the client to upload an unknown amount of data in one
HTTP transaction without needing to pregenerate the entire pack
file locally.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
97cc7bc45c Discover refs via smart HTTP server when available
Instead of loading the cached info/refs, try to use the smart HTTP
version when the server supports it.  Since the smart variant is
actually the pkt-line stream from the start of either upload-pack
or receive-pack we need to parse these through get_remote_heads,
which requires a background thread to feed its pipe.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Mark Lodato
f5ba2d18f9 http-backend: more explict LocationMatch
In the git-http-backend examples, only match git-receive-pack within
/git/.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Mark Lodato
8127f778a0 http-backend: add example for gitweb on same URL
In the git-http-backend documentation, add an example of how to set up
gitweb and git-http-backend on the same URL by using a series of
mod_alias commands.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Mark Lodato
0ebb1fa78e http-backend: use mod_alias instead of mod_rewrite
In the git-http-backend documentation, use mod_alias exlusively, instead
of using a combination of mod_alias and mod_rewrite.  This makes the
example slightly shorted and a bit more clear.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Mark Lodato
b9af4ab3cd http-backend: reword some documentation
Clarify some of the git-http-backend documentation, particularly:

* In the Description, state that smart/dumb HTTP fetch and smart HTTP
  push are supported, state that authenticated clients allow push, and
  remove the note that this is only suited for read-only updates.

* At the start of Examples, state explicitly what URL is mapping to what
  location on disk.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Mark Lodato
917adc0360 http-backend: add GIT_PROJECT_ROOT environment var
Add a new environment variable, GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, to override the
method of using PATH_TRANSLATED to find the git repository on disk.
This makes it much easier to configure the web server, especially when
the web server's DocumentRoot does not contain the git repositories,
which is the usual case.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
556cfa3b6d Smart fetch and push over HTTP: server side
Requests for $GIT_URL/git-receive-pack and $GIT_URL/git-upload-pack
are forwarded to the corresponding backend process by directly
executing it and leaving stdin and stdout connected to the invoking
web server.  Prior to starting the backend process the HTTP response
headers are sent, thereby freeing the backend from needing to know
about the HTTP protocol.

Requests that are encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip are
automatically inflated before being streamed into the backend.
This is primarily useful for the git-upload-pack backend, which
receives highly repetitive text data from clients that easily
compresses to 50% of its original size.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:15 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
42526b478e Add stateless RPC options to upload-pack, receive-pack
When --stateless-rpc is passed as a command line parameter to
upload-pack or receive-pack the programs now assume they may
perform only a single read-write cycle with stdin and stdout.
This fits with the HTTP POST request processing model where a
program may read the request, write a response, and must exit.

When --advertise-refs is passed as a command line parameter only
the initial ref advertisement is output, and the program exits
immediately.  This fits with the HTTP GET request model, where
no request content is received but a response must be produced.

HTTP headers and/or environment are not processed here, but
instead are assumed to be handled by the program invoking
either service backend.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:14 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
2f4038ab33 Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport
The git-http-backend CGI can be configured into any Apache server
using ScriptAlias, such as with the following configuration:

  LoadModule cgi_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_cgi.so
  LoadModule alias_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_alias.so
  ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/

Repositories are accessed via the translated PATH_INFO.

The CGI is backwards compatible with the dumb client, allowing all
older HTTP clients to continue to download repositories which are
managed by the CGI.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 17:58:04 -08:00
Erick Mattos
c51f6ceed6 commit -c/-C/--amend: reset timestamp and authorship to committer with --reset-author
When we use -c, -C, or --amend, we are trying one of two things: using the
source as a template or modifying a commit with corrections.

When these options are used, the authorship and timestamp recorded in the
newly created commit are always taken from the original commit.  This is
inconvenient when we just want to borrow the commit log message or when
our change to the code is so significant that we should take over the
authorship (with the blame for bugs we introduce, of course).

The new --reset-author option is meant to solve this need by regenerating
the timestamp and setting the committer as the new author.

Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 16:59:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1b52ac5935 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Fix documentation grammar typo
  Allow curl helper to work without a local repository
  Require a struct remote in transport_get()
2009-11-04 16:34:02 -08:00
Gisle Aas
0a565de4a5 Fix documentation grammar typo
Introduced in 492cf3f (More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev', 2009-10-29)

Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 16:08:55 -08:00