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Author SHA1 Message Date
Stefan Beller
70a0cc9e5c commit: Fix a memory leak in determine_author_info
The date variable is assigned new memory via xmemdupz and 2 lines later
it is assigned new memory again via xmalloc, but the first assignment
is never freed nor used.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15 09:45:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
571cdfd4e0 Merge branch 'tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing' into maint
* tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing:
  remote: 'show' and 'prune' can take more than one remote
  remote: check for superfluous arguments in 'git remote add'
  remote: add a test for extra arguments, according to docs
2013-05-03 15:12:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bd8e3385d5 Merge branch 'jk/receive-pack-deadlocks-with-early-failure' into maint
* jk/receive-pack-deadlocks-with-early-failure:
  receive-pack: close sideband fd on early pack errors
2013-04-26 11:12:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
30e8180b27 Merge branch 'jk/chopped-ident' into maint
* jk/chopped-ident:
  blame: handle broken commit headers gracefully
  pretty: handle broken commit headers gracefully
  cat-file: print tags raw for "cat-file -p"
2013-04-26 11:11:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0222bc9102 Merge branch 'rt/commentchar-fmt-merge-msg' into maint
* rt/commentchar-fmt-merge-msg:
  t6200: avoid path mangling issue on Windows
  fmt-merge-msg: use core.commentchar in tag signatures completely
  fmt-merge-msg: respect core.commentchar in people credits
2013-04-26 11:10:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
499231d9f1 Merge branch 'jc/merge-tag-object' into maint
"git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from
"git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did
not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload.  Make the code
notice the type of the tag object, in addition to the dwim_ref()
based classification the current code uses (i.e. the name appears in
refs/tags/) to decide when to special case merging of tags.

* jc/merge-tag-object:
  t6200: test message for merging of an annotated tag
  t6200: use test_config/test_unconfig
  merge: a random object may not necssarily be a commit
2013-04-24 16:14:06 -07:00
Thomas Rast
2d2e3d2559 remote: check for superfluous arguments in 'git remote add'
The 'git remote add' subcommand did not check for superfluous command
line arguments.  Make it so.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-24 13:12:51 -07:00
Kevin Bracey
2130bf3ca9 cherry-pick/revert: make usage say '<commit-ish>...'
The usage string for cherry-pick and revert has never been updated to
reflect their ability to handle multiple commits. Other documentation is
already correct.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-24 09:48:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4fe3ed1302 Merge branch 'jk/show-branch-strbuf' into maint
* jk/show-branch-strbuf:
  show-branch: use strbuf instead of static buffer
2013-04-22 11:26:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
21247455f3 Merge branch 'jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent' into maint
* jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent:
  test: resurrect q_to_tab
  apply --whitespace=fix: avoid running over the postimage buffer
2013-04-22 11:26:56 -07:00
Jeff King
49ecfa13fe receive-pack: close sideband fd on early pack errors
Since commit a22e6f8 (receive-pack: send pack-processing
stderr over sideband, 2012-09-21), receive-pack will start
an async sideband thread to copy the stderr from our
index-pack or unpack-objects child to the client. We hand
the thread's input descriptor to unpack(), which puts it in
the "err" member of the "struct child_process".

After unpack() returns, we use finish_async() to reap the
sideband thread. The thread is only ready to die when it
gets EOF on its pipe, which is connected to the err
descriptor. So we expect all of the write ends of that pipe
to be closed as part of unpack().

Normally, this works fine. After start_command forks, it
closes the parent copy of the descriptor. Then once the
child exits (whether it was successful or not), that closes
the only remaining writer.

However, there is one code-path in unpack() that does not
handle this. Before we decide which of unpack-objects or
index-pack to use, we read the pack header ourselves to see
how many objects it contains. If there is an error here, we
exit without running either sub-command, the pipe descriptor
remains open, and we are in a deadlock, waiting for the
sideband thread to die (which is in turn waiting for us to
close the pipe).

We can fix this by making sure that unpack() always closes
the pipe before returning.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-19 14:43:24 -07:00
René Scharfe
de5abe9fe9 blame: handle broken commit headers gracefully
split_ident_line() can leave us with the pointers date_begin, date_end,
tz_begin and tz_end all set to NULL.  Check them before use and supply
the same fallback values as in the case of a negative return code from
split_ident_line().

The "(unknown)" is not actually shown in the output, though, because it
will be converted to a number (zero) eventually.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17 14:50:45 -07:00
Jeff King
9cfa5126a0 cat-file: print tags raw for "cat-file -p"
When "cat-file -p" prints commits, it shows them in their
raw format, since git's format is already human-readable.
For tags, however, we print the whole thing raw except for
one thing: we convert the timestamp on the tagger line into a
human-readable date.

This dates all the way back to a0f15fa (Pretty-print tagger
dates, 2006-03-01). At that time there was no other way to
pretty-print a tag.  These days, however, neither of those
matters much. The normal way to pretty-print a tag is with
"git show", which is much more flexible than "cat-file -p".

Commit a0f15fa also built "verify-tag --verbose" (and
subsequently "tag -v") around the "cat-file -p" output.
However, that behavior was lost in commit 62e09ce (Make git
tag a builtin, 2007-07-20), and we went back to printing
the raw tag contents. Nobody seems to have noticed the bug
since then (and it is arguably a saner behavior anyway, as
it shows the actual bytes for which we verified the
signature).

Let's drop the tagger-date formatting for "cat-file -p". It
makes us more consistent with cat-file's commit
pretty-printer, and as a bonus, we can drop the hand-rolled
tag parsing code in cat-file (which happened to behave
inconsistently with the tag pretty-printing code elsewhere).

This is a change of output format, so it's possible that
some callers could considered this a regression. However,
the original behavior was arguably a bug (due to the
inconsistency with commits), likely nobody was relying on it
(even we do not use it ourselves these days), and anyone
relying on the "-p" pretty-printer should be able to expect
a change in the output format (i.e., while "cat-file" is
plumbing, the output format of "-p" was never guaranteed to
be stable).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-17 14:48:45 -07:00
Stefano Lattarini
41ccfdd9c9 Correct common spelling mistakes in comments and tests
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-12 13:38:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7f20008d14 Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maint
* maint-1.8.1:
  fast-export: fix argument name in error messages
  Documentation: distinguish between ref and offset deltas in pack-format
2013-04-12 11:48:38 -07:00
Paul Price
04a74b6cfa fast-export: fix argument name in error messages
The --signed-tags argument is plural, while error messages referred
to --signed-tag (singular).  Tweak error messages to correspond to the
argument.

Signed-off-by: Paul Price <price@astro.princeton.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-12 09:48:46 -07:00
Ralf Thielow
89c3bbd808 fmt-merge-msg: use core.commentchar in tag signatures completely
Commit eff80a9 (Allow custom "comment char") introduced a custom
comment character for commit messages but didn't use it completely
in the tag signature part.

This commit fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-07 09:30:39 -07:00
Ralf Thielow
9927ebed19 fmt-merge-msg: respect core.commentchar in people credits
Commit eff80a9 (Allow custom "comment char") introduced a custom
comment character for commit messages but forgot to use it in
people credits which can be a part of a commit message.

With this commit, the custom comment character is also used
in people credits.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-07 09:28:29 -07:00
Jeff King
aaa07e3eee show-branch: use strbuf instead of static buffer
When we generate relative names (e.g., "master~20^2"), we
format the name into a static buffer, then xstrdup the
result to attach it to the commit. Since the first thing we
add into the static buffer is the already-computed name of
the child commit, the names may get longer and longer as
the traversal gets deeper, and we may eventually overflow
the fixed-size buffer.

Fix this by converting the fixed-size buffer into a dynamic
strbuf.  The performance implications should be minimal, as
we end up allocating a heap copy of the name anyway (and now
we can just detach the heap copy from the strbuf).

Reported-by: Eric Roman <eroman@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-06 18:57:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f4df84de62 Merge branch 'nd/index-pack-threaded-fixes' into maint
* nd/index-pack-threaded-fixes:
  index-pack: guard nr_resolved_deltas reads by lock
  index-pack: protect deepest_delta in multithread code
2013-04-04 13:00:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
68447f04f4 Merge branch 'jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix' into maint
* jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix:
  index-pack: always zero-initialize object_entry list
2013-04-04 13:00:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b771d8d7cf Merge branch 'mg/gpg-interface-using-status' into maint
Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
or en/US locale.

* mg/gpg-interface-using-status:
  pretty: make %GK output the signing key for signed commits
  pretty: parse the gpg status lines rather than the output
  gpg_interface: allow to request status return
  log-tree: rely upon the check in the gpg_interface
  gpg-interface: check good signature in a reliable way
2013-04-03 09:26:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
14c79b1faa Merge branch 'bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option' into maint
'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
$msg already ended with one.

* bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option:
  Documentation/git-commit.txt: rework the --cleanup section
  git-commit: only append a newline to -m mesg if necessary
  t7502: demonstrate breakage with a commit message with trailing newlines
  t/t7502: compare entire commit message with what was expected
2013-04-03 09:26:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
295e3938fc Merge branch 'jc/describe' into maint
The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with
"--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
base of description, did not restrict the output from the command to
those that match the given pattern.

* jc/describe:
  describe: --match=<pattern> must limit the refs even when used with --all
2013-04-03 09:25:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9e72a56699 Merge branch 'ph/tag-force-no-warn-on-creation' into maint
"git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when
creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating).

* ph/tag-force-no-warn-on-creation:
  tag: --force does not have to warn when creating tags
2013-04-03 09:24:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
92e0d91632 Sync with 1.8.1 maintenance track
* maint-1.8.1:
  Start preparing for 1.8.1.6
  git-tag(1): we tag HEAD by default
  Fix revision walk for commits with the same dates
  t2003: work around path mangling issue on Windows
  pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait
  pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags
  use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object")
  avoid segfaults on parse_object failure
  entry: fix filter lookup
  t2003: modernize style
  name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true
2013-04-03 09:18:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f1ad05f3a5 Merge branch 'jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref' into maint-1.8.1
* jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref:
  pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait
  pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags
  use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object")
  avoid segfaults on parse_object failure
2013-04-03 08:43:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
357d7f11ba Merge branch 'ap/maint-update-index-h-is-for-help' into maint-1.8.1
* ap/maint-update-index-h-is-for-help:
  update-index: allow "-h" to also display options
2013-04-03 08:36:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f4254d1fb2 Merge branch 'nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow' into maint-1.8.1
* nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow:
  index-pack: fix buffer overflow caused by translations
2013-04-03 08:35:06 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
803a777942 cat-file: Fix an gcc -Wuninitialized warning
After commit cbfd5e1c ("drop some obsolete "x = x" compiler warning
hacks", 21-03-2013) removed a gcc specific hack, older versions of
gcc now issue an "'contents' might be used uninitialized" warning.
In order to suppress the warning, we simply initialize the variable
to NULL in it's declaration.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-29 23:47:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d011ab4312 Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maint
* maint-1.8.1:
  merge-tree: fix typo in merge-tree.c::unresolved
  git-commit doc: describe use of multiple `-m` options
  git-pull doc: fix grammo ("conflicts" is plural)
2013-03-27 10:51:10 -07:00
John Keeping
187c00c6c5 merge-tree: fix typo in merge-tree.c::unresolved
When calculating whether there is a d/f conflict, the calculation of
whether both sides are directories generates an incorrect references
mask because it does not use the loop index to set the correct bit.
Fix this typo.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-27 10:00:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ece12fd844 Merge branch 'jk/mailsplit-maildir-muttsort' into maint
Sort filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely
to sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting
numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in
alphabetical order.

* jk/mailsplit-maildir-muttsort:
  mailsplit: sort maildir filenames more cleverly
2013-03-26 12:44:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
307d68e275 Merge branch 'nd/branch-error-cases' into maint
"git branch" had more cases where it did not bother to check
nonsense command line parameters.

* nd/branch-error-cases:
  branch: segfault fixes and validation
2013-03-26 12:43:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6201eb3e65 Merge branch 'ap/maint-update-index-h-is-for-help' into maint
"git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing.

* ap/maint-update-index-h-is-for-help:
  update-index: allow "-h" to also display options
2013-03-26 12:42:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4bb2121c17 Merge branch 'nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow' into maint
* nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow:
  index-pack: fix buffer overflow caused by translations
2013-03-26 12:40:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c17866d7b6 Merge branch 'gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs' into maint
* gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs:
  Fix ".git/refs" stragglers
2013-03-26 12:40:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1d66383579 Merge branch 'jc/maint-reflog-expire-clean-mark-typofix' into maint
In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
correct objects.

* jc/maint-reflog-expire-clean-mark-typofix:
  reflog: fix typo in "reflog expire" clean-up codepath
2013-03-26 12:39:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
250b3c6c99 apply --whitespace=fix: avoid running over the postimage buffer
Originally update-pre-post-images could assume that any whitespace
fixing will make the result only shorter by unexpanding runs of
leading SPs into HTs and removing trailing whitespaces at the end of
lines.  Updating the post-image we read from the patch to match the
actual result can be performed in-place under this assumption.
These days, however, we have tab-in-indent (aka Python) rule whose
result can be longer than the original, and we do need to allocate
a larger buffer than the input and replace the result.

Fortunately the support for lengthening rewrite was already added
when we began supporting "match while ignoring whitespace
differences" mode in 86c91f9179 (git apply: option to ignore
whitespace differences, 2009-08-04).  We only need to correctly
count the number of bytes necessary to hold the updated result and
tell the function to allocate a new buffer.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-22 11:16:01 -07:00
Jeff King
cbfd5e1cbb drop some obsolete "x = x" compiler warning hacks
In cases where the setting and access of a variable are
protected by the same conditional flag, older versions of
gcc would generate a "might be used unitialized" warning. We
silence the warning by initializing the variable to itself,
a hack that gcc recognizes.

Modern versions of gcc are smart enough to get this right,
going back to at least version 4.3.5. gcc 4.1 does get it
wrong in both cases, but is sufficiently old that we
probably don't need to care about it anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-21 14:06:38 -07:00
Jeff King
57165db003 index-pack: always zero-initialize object_entry list
Commit 38a4556 (index-pack: start learning to emulate
"verify-pack -v", 2011-06-03) added a "delta_depth" counter
to each "struct object_entry". Initially, all object entries
have their depth set to 0; in resolve_delta, we then set the
depth of each delta to "base + 1". Base entries never have
their depth touched, and remain at 0.

To ensure that all depths start at 0, that commit changed
calls to xmalloc the object_entry list into calls to
xcalloc.  However, it forgot that we grow the list with
xrealloc later. These extra entries are used when we add an
object from elsewhere to complete a thin pack. If we add a
non-delta object, its depth value will just be uninitialized
heap data.

This patch fixes it by zero-initializing entries we add to
the objects list via the xrealloc.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-20 12:53:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2d1495fe44 merge: a random object may not necssarily be a commit
The user could have said "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.0.0)"; we
shouldn't mark it as "Merge commit '15999998fb...'" as the merge
name, even though such an invocation might be crazy.

We could even read the "tag " header from the tag object and replace
the object name the user gave us, but let's not lose the information
by doing so, at least not yet.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-19 10:59:07 -07:00
Thomas Rast
8f82aad4e7 index-pack: guard nr_resolved_deltas reads by lock
The threaded parts of index-pack increment the number of resolved
deltas in nr_resolved_deltas guarded by counter_mutex.  However, the
per-thread outer loop accessed nr_resolved_deltas without any locks.

This is not wrong as such, since it doesn't matter all that much
whether we get an outdated value.  However, unless someone proves that
this one lock makes all the performance difference, it would be much
cleaner to guard _all_ accesses to the variable with the lock.

The only such use is display_progress() in the threaded section (all
others are in the conclude_pack() callchain outside the threaded
part).  To make it obvious that it cannot deadlock, move it out of
work_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Reviewed-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-19 08:40:47 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
3aba2fddcb index-pack: protect deepest_delta in multithread code
deepest_delta is a global variable but is updated without protection
in resolve_delta(), a multithreaded function. Add a new mutex for it,
but only protect and update when it's actually used (i.e. show_stat is
non-zero).

Another variable that will not be updated is delta_depth in "struct
object_entry" as it's only useful when show_stat is 1. Putting it in
"if (show_stat)" makes it clearer.

The local variable "stat" is renamed to "show_stat" after moving to
global scope because the name "stat" conflicts with stat(2) syscall.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-19 08:40:19 -07:00
Jeff King
f7892d1817 use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object")
Some call-sites do:

  o = parse_object(sha1);
  if (!o)
	  die("bad object %s", some_name);

We can now handle that as a one-liner, and get more
consistent output.

In the third case of this patch, it looks like we are losing
information, as the existing message also outputs the sha1
hex; however, parse_object will already have written a more
specific complaint about the sha1, so there is no point in
repeating it here.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-17 12:52:14 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
5c3459fc61 index-pack: fix buffer overflow caused by translations
The translation of "completed with %d local objects" is put in a
48-byte buffer, which may be enough for English but not true for any
translations. Convert it to use strbuf (i.e. no hard limit on
translation length).

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-16 22:08:53 -07:00
Phil Hord
3ae851e6fb tag: --force does not have to warn when creating tags
"git tag --force" mentions what old tag object is being replaced
when it is used to update an existing tag, but it shows the same
message when creating a new one.  Stop doing that, as it does not
add any information.

Add a test for this and also to ensure --force can replace tags at
all.

Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-13 10:35:15 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
c6898ebf21 add: update pathless 'add [-u|-A]' warning to reflect change of plan
We originally thought the transition would need a period where "git add
[-u|-A]" without pathspec would be forbidden, but the warning is big
enough to scare people and teach them not to use it (or, if so, to
understand the consequences).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-11 07:57:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e8e92e05ab reflog: fix typo in "reflog expire" clean-up codepath
In "reflog expire" we were not clearing the REACHABLE bit from
objects reachable from the tip of refs we marked earlier.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-05 12:49:59 -08:00
Jeff King
18505c3423 mailsplit: sort maildir filenames more cleverly
A maildir does not technically record the order in which
items were placed into it. That means that when applying a
patch series from a maildir, we may get the patches in the
wrong order. We try to work around this by sorting the
filenames. Unfortunately, this may or may not work depending
on the naming scheme used by the writer of the maildir.

For instance, mutt will write:

  ${epoch_seconds}.${pid}_${seq}.${host}

where we have:

  - epoch_seconds: timestamp at which entry was written
  - pid: PID of writing process
  - seq: a sequence number to ensure uniqueness of filenames
  - host: hostname

None of the numbers are zero-padded. Therefore, when we sort
the names as byte strings, entries that cross a digit
boundary (e.g., 10) will sort out of order.  In the case of
timestamps, it almost never matters (because we do not cross
a digit boundary in the epoch time very often these days).
But for the sequence number, a 10-patch series would be
ordered as 1, 10, 2, 3, etc.

To fix this, we can use a custom sort comparison function
which traverses each string, comparing chunks of digits
numerically, and otherwise doing a byte-for-byte comparison.
That would sort:

  123.456_1.bar
  123.456_2.bar
  ...
  123.456_10.bar

according to the sequence number. Since maildir does not
define a filename format, this is really just a heuristic.
But it happens to work for mutt, and there is a reasonable
chance that it will work for other writers, too (at least as
well as a straight sort).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-02 22:52:44 -08:00