Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic
update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later
operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks"
option can be passed to Git to disable them.
* jk/no-optional-locks:
git: add --no-optional-locks option
Add comment to a few functions that use a short-lived buffer the
caller can peek and copy out of.
* hn/path-ownership-comment:
read_gitfile_gently: clarify return value ownership.
real_path: clarify return value ownership
"git branch" learned "-c/-C" to create a new branch by copying an
existing one.
* sd/branch-copy:
branch: fix "copy" to never touch HEAD
branch: add a --copy (-c) option to go with --move (-m)
branch: add test for -m renaming multiple config sections
config: create a function to format section headers
Recent versions of "git rev-parse --parseopt" did not parse the
option specification that does not have the optional flags (*=?!)
correctly, which has been corrected.
* bc/rev-parse-parseopt-fix:
parse-options: only insert newline in help text if needed
parse-options: write blank line to correct output stream
t0040,t1502: Demonstrate parse_options bugs
git-rebase: don't ignore unexpected command line arguments
rev-parse parseopt: interpret any whitespace as start of help text
rev-parse parseopt: do not search help text for flag chars
t1502: demonstrate rev-parse --parseopt option mis-parsing
The final batch to "git rebase -i" updates to move more code from
the shell script to C.
* js/rebase-i-final:
rebase -i: rearrange fixup/squash lines using the rebase--helper
t3415: test fixup with wrapped oneline
rebase -i: skip unnecessary picks using the rebase--helper
rebase -i: check for missing commits in the rebase--helper
t3404: relax rebase.missingCommitsCheck tests
rebase -i: also expand/collapse the SHA-1s via the rebase--helper
rebase -i: do not invent onelines when expanding/collapsing SHA-1s
rebase -i: remove useless indentation
rebase -i: generate the script via rebase--helper
t3415: verify that an empty instructionFormat is handled as before
Memory leaks in various codepaths have been plugged.
* ma/leakplugs:
pack-bitmap[-write]: use `object_array_clear()`, don't leak
object_array: add and use `object_array_pop()`
object_array: use `object_array_clear()`, not `free()`
leak_pending: use `object_array_clear()`, not `free()`
commit: fix memory leak in `reduce_heads()`
builtin/commit: fix memory leak in `prepare_index()`
As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the
commit-msg hook, "git merge" that records a merge commit that
cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't.
* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook (2017-09-22) 1 commit
(merged to 'next' on 2017-09-25 at 096e0502a8)
+ Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook
Add documentation for a topic that has recently graduated to the
'master' branch.
* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook:
Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook
"git fast-export" with -M/-C option issued "copy" instruction on a
path that is simultaneously modified, which was incorrect.
* jt/fast-export-copy-modify-fix:
fast-export: do not copy from modified file
"git describe --match <pattern>" has been taught to play well with
the "--all" option.
* mk/describe-match-with-all:
describe: teach --match to handle branches and remotes
"git status --ignored", when noticing that a directory without any
tracked path is ignored, still enumerated all the ignored paths in
the directory, which is unnecessary. The codepath has been
optimized to avoid this overhead.
* jm/status-ignored-directory-optim:
Improve performance of git status --ignored
The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly
written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case.
* jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix:
merge-strategies: avoid implying that "-s theirs" exists
The delta format used in the packfile cannot reference data at
offset larger than what can be expressed in 4-byte, but the
generator for the data failed to make sure the offset does not
overflow. This has been corrected.
* mk/diff-delta-avoid-large-offset:
diff-delta: do not allow delta offset truncation
The machinery to create xdelta used in pack files received the
sizes of the data in size_t, but lost the higher bits of them by
storing them in "unsigned int" during the computation, which is
fixed.
* mk/diff-delta-uint-may-be-shorter-than-ulong:
diff-delta: fix encoding size that would not fit in "unsigned int"
Code clean-up.
* rs/resolve-ref-optional-result:
refs: pass NULL to resolve_ref_unsafe() if hash is not needed
refs: pass NULL to refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() if hash is not needed
refs: make sha1 output parameter of refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() optional
"git mailinfo" was loose in decoding quoted printable and produced
garbage when the two letters after the equal sign are not
hexadecimal. This has been fixed.
* rs/mailinfo-qp-decode-fix:
mailinfo: don't decode invalid =XY quoted-printable sequences
The built-in pattern to detect the "function header" for HTML did
not match <H1>..<H6> elements without any attributes, which has
been fixed.
* ik/userdiff-html-h-element-fix:
userdiff: fix HTML hunk header regexp
Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wimplicit-fallthrough
warnings from Gcc 7 (which is a good code hygiene).
* jk/fallthrough:
consistently use "fallthrough" comments in switches
curl_trace(): eliminate switch fallthrough
test-line-buffer: simplify command parsing
"git filter-branch" cannot reproduce a history with a tag without
the tagger field, which only ancient versions of Git allowed to be
created. This has been corrected.
* ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger:
filter-branch: use hash-object instead of mktag
filter-branch: stash away ref map in a branch
filter-branch: preserve and restore $GIT_AUTHOR_* and $GIT_COMMITTER_*
filter-branch: reset $GIT_* before cleaning up
"git describe --match" learned to take multiple patterns in v2.13
series, but the feature ignored the patterns after the first one
and did not work at all. This has been fixed.
* jk/describe-omit-some-refs:
describe: fix matching to actually match all patterns
Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run
commands like "git status" in the background to keep track
of the state of the repository. Some of these commands may
refresh the index and write out the result in an
opportunistic way: if they can get the index lock, then they
update the on-disk index with any updates they find. And if
not, then their in-core refresh is lost and just has to be
recomputed by the next caller.
But taking the index lock may conflict with other operations
in the repository. Especially ones that the user is doing
themselves, which _aren't_ opportunistic. In other words,
"git status" knows how to back off when somebody else is
holding the lock, but other commands don't know that status
would be happy to drop the lock if somebody else wanted it.
There are a couple possible solutions:
1. Have some kind of "pseudo-lock" that allows other
commands to tell status that they want the lock.
This is likely to be complicated and error-prone to
implement (and maybe even impossible with just
dotlocks to work from, as it requires some
inter-process communication).
2. Avoid background runs of commands like "git status"
that want to do opportunistic updates, preferring
instead plumbing like diff-files, etc.
This is awkward for a couple of reasons. One is that
"status --porcelain" reports a lot more about the
repository state than is available from individual
plumbing commands. And two is that we actually _do_
want to see the refreshed index. We just don't want to
take a lock or write out the result. Whereas commands
like diff-files expect us to refresh the index
separately and write it to disk so that they can depend
on the result. But that write is exactly what we're
trying to avoid.
3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index.
This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any
work done in refreshing the index for such a call is
lost when the process exits. So a background process
may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times
until the user runs a command that does an index
refresh themselves.
This patch implements the option 3. The idea (and the test)
is largely stolen from a Git for Windows patch by Johannes
Schindelin, 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not* to lock the
index and update it, 2016-08-12). The twist here is that
instead of making this an option to "git status", it becomes
a "git" option and matching environment variable.
The reason there is two-fold:
1. An environment variable is carried through to
sub-processes. And whether an invocation is a
background process or not should apply to the whole
process tree. So you could do "git --no-optional-locks
foo", and if "foo" is a script or alias that calls
"status", you'll still get the effect.
2. There may be other programs that want the same
treatment.
I've punted here on finding more callers to convert,
since "status" is the obvious one to call as a repeated
background job. But "git diff"'s opportunistic refresh
of the index may be a good candidate.
The test is taken from 67e5ce7f63, and it's worth repeating
Johannes's explanation:
Note that the regression test added in this commit does
not *really* verify that no index.lock file was written;
that test is not possible in a portable way. Instead, we
verify that .git/index is rewritten *only* when `git
status` is run without `--no-optional-locks`.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This mirrors commit 'bdfdaa497 ("strbuf.h: integrate api-strbuf.txt
documentation, 2015-01-16") which did the same for strbuf.h:
* API documentation uses /** */ to set it apart from other comments.
* Function names were stripped from the comments.
* Ordering of the header was adjusted to follow the one from the text
file.
* Edited some existing comments from string-list.h for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Git 2.14.2
Git 2.13.6
Git 2.12.5
Git 2.11.4
Git 2.10.5
cvsimport: shell-quote variable used in backticks
archimport: use safe_pipe_capture for user input
shell: drop git-cvsserver support by default
cvsserver: use safe_pipe_capture for `constant commands` as well
cvsserver: use safe_pipe_capture instead of backticks
cvsserver: move safe_pipe_capture() to the main package
Dynamic loading of DLL functions is duplicated in several places in Git
for Windows' source code.
This patch adds a pair of macros to simplify the process: the
DECLARE_PROC_ADDR(<dll>, <return-type>, <function-name>,
...<function-parameter-types>...) macro to be used at the beginning of a
code block, and the INIT_PROC_ADDR(<function-name>) macro to call before
using the declared function. The return value of the INIT_PROC_ADDR()
call has to be checked; If it is NULL, the function was not found in the
specified DLL.
Example:
DECLARE_PROC_ADDR(kernel32.dll, BOOL, CreateHardLinkW,
LPCWSTR, LPCWSTR, LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);
if (!INIT_PROC_ADDR(CreateHardLinkW))
return error("Could not find CreateHardLinkW() function";
if (!CreateHardLinkW(source, target, NULL))
return error("could not create hardlink from %S to %S",
source, target);
return 0;
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
References to multi-word configuration variable names in our
documentation must consistently use camelCase to highlight where
the word boundaries are, even though these are treated case
insensitively.
Fix a few places that spell them in all lowercase, which makes
them harder to read.
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-parse" learned "--is-shallow-repository", that is to be
used in a way similar to existing "--is-bare-repository" and
friends.
* ow/rev-parse-is-shallow-repo:
rev-parse: rev-parse: add --is-shallow-repository
On Cygwin, "ulimit -s" does not report failure but it does not work
at all, which causes an unexpected success of some tests that
expect failures under a limited stack situation. This has been
fixed.
* rj/test-ulimit-on-windows:
t9010-*.sh: skip all tests if the PIPE prereq is missing
test-lib: use more compact expression in PIPE prerequisite
test-lib: don't use ulimit in test prerequisites on cygwin
A regression fix for 2.11 that made the code to read the list of
alternate object stores overrun the end of the string.
* jk/info-alternates-fix:
read_info_alternates: warn on non-trivial errors
read_info_alternates: read contents into strbuf
Code clean-up that also plugs memory leaks.
* jk/revision-remove-cmdline-pathspec:
pathspec doc: parse_pathspec does not maintain references to args
revision: replace "struct cmdline_pathspec" with argv_array
The scripts to drive TravisCI has been reorganized and then an
optimization to avoid spending cycles on a branch whose tip is
tagged has been implemented.
* ls/travis-scriptify:
travis-ci: fix "skip_branch_tip_with_tag()" string comparison
travis: dedent a few scripts that are indented overly deeply
travis-ci: skip a branch build if equal tag is present
travis-ci: move Travis CI code into dedicated scripts
"git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by
reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to
use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been
corrected.
* aw/gc-lockfile-fscanf-fix:
gc: call fscanf() with %<len>s, not %<len>c, when reading hostname
A test to demonstrate "git mv" failing to adjust nested submodules
has been added.
* hv/mv-nested-submodules-test:
add test for bug in git-mv for recursive submodules
