Make many textual tweaks to the 2.4.0 release notes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"Todo list" is the name that is used in the user-facing documentation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude and core.excludesfile (which falls back to
$XDG_HOME/git/ignore) are both ways to override the ignore pattern
lists given by the project in .gitignore files. The former, which
is per-repository personal preference, should take precedence over
the latter, which is a personal preference default across different
repositories that are accessed from that machine. The existing
documentation also agrees.
However, the precedence order was screwed up between these two from
the very beginning when 896bdfa2 (add: Support specifying an
excludes file with a configuration variable, 2007-02-27) introduced
core.excludesfile variable.
Noticed-by: Yohei Endo <yoheie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the "git" wrapper is invoked, we prepend the baked-in
exec-path to our PATH, so that any sub-processes we exec
will all find the git-foo commands that match the wrapper
version.
If you invoke git with an absolute path, like:
/usr/bin/git foo
we also prepend "/usr/bin" to the PATH. This was added long
ago by by 231af83 (Teach the "git" command to handle some
commands internally, 2006-02-26), with the intent that
things would just work if you did something like:
cd /opt
tar xzf premade-git-package.tar.gz
alias git=/opt/git/bin/git
as we would then find all of the related external commands
in /opt/git/bin. I.e., it made git runtime-relocatable,
since at the time of 231af83, we installed all of the git
commands into $(bindir). But these days, that is not enough.
Since f28ac70 (Move all dashed-form commands to libexecdir,
2007-11-28), we do not put commands into $(bindir), and you
actually need to convert "/usr/bin" into "/usr/libexec". And
not just for finding binaries; we want to find $(sharedir),
etc, the same way. The RUNTIME_PREFIX build knob does this
the right way, by assuming a sane hierarchy rooted at
"$prefix" when we run "$prefix/bin/git", and inferring
"$prefix/libexec/git-core", etc.
So this feature (prepending the argv[0] dirname to the PATH)
is broken for providing a runtime prefix, and has been for
many years. Does it do anything for other cases?
For the "git" wrapper itself, as well as any commands
shipped by "git", the answer is no. Those are already in
git's exec-path, which is consulted first. For third-party
commands which you've dropped into the same directory, it
does include them. So if you do
cd /opt
tar xzf git-built-specifically-for-opt-git.tar.gz
cp third-party/git-foo /opt/git/bin/git-foo
alias git=/opt/git/bin/git
it does mean that we will find the third-party "git-foo",
even if you do not put /opt/git/bin into your $PATH. But
the flipside of this is that we will bump the precedence of
_other_ third-party tools that happen to be in the same
directory as git. For example, consider this setup:
1. Git is installed by the system in /usr/bin. There are
other system utilities in /usr/bin. E.g., a system
"vi".
2. The user installs tools they prefer in /usr/local/bin.
E.g., vim with a "vi" symlink. They set their PATH to
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin to prefer their custom tools.
3. Running /usr/bin/git puts "/usr/bin" at the front of
their PATH. When git invokes the editor on behalf of
the user, they get the system vi, not their normal vim.
There are other variants of this, including overriding
system ruby and python (which is quite common using tools
like "rvm" and "virtualenv", which use relocatable
hierarchies and $PATH settings to get a consistent
environment).
Given that the main motivation for git placing the argv[0]
dirname into the PATH has been broken for years, that the
remaining cases are obscure and unlikely (and easily fixed
by the user just setting up their $PATH sanely), and that
the behavior is hurting real, reasonably common use cases,
it's not worth continuing to do so.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you have staged contents in your index and run "stash
apply", we may hit a conflict and put new entries into the
index. Recovering to your original state is difficult at
that point, because tools like "git reset --keep" will blow
away anything staged. We can make this safer by refusing to
apply when there are staged changes.
It's possible we could provide better tooling here, as "git
stash apply" should be writing only conflicts to the index
(so we know that any stage-0 entries are potentially
precious). But it is the odd duck; most "mergy" commands
will update the index for cleanly merged entries, and it is
not worth updating our tooling to support this use case
which is unlikely to be of interest (besides which, we would
still need to block a dirty index for "stash apply --index",
since that case _would_ be ambiguous).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the tests in t3903 wants to make sure that applying a
stash that touches only "file" can still happen even if there
are working tree changes to "other-file". To do so, it adds
"other-file" to the index (since otherwise it is an
untracked file, voiding the purpose of the test).
But as we are about to refactor the dirty-index handling,
and as this test does not actually care about having a dirty
index (only a dirty working tree), let's bump the tracking
of "other-file" into the setup phase, so we can have _just_
a dirty working tree here.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When testing the diff output of "git stash list", we look
for the stash's subject of "WIP on master: $sha1", even
though it's not relevant to the diff output. This makes the
test brittle to refactoring, as any changes to earlier tests
may impact the commit sha1.
Since we don't care about the commit subject here, we can
simply ask stash not to print it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"diff-highlight" (in contrib/) used to show byte-by-byte
differences, which meant that multi-byte characters can be chopped
in the middle. It learned to pay attention to character boundaries
(assuming the UTF-8 payload).
* jk/colors:
diff-highlight: do not split multibyte characters
Test fixes.
* jk/test-annoyances:
t5551: make EXPENSIVE test cheaper
t5541: move run_with_cmdline_limit to test-lib.sh
t: pass GIT_TRACE through Apache
t: redirect stderr GIT_TRACE to descriptor 4
t: translate SIGINT to an exit
An earlier update to the parser that disects an address broke an
address, followed by a colon, followed by an empty string (instead
of the port number).
* tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix:
connect.c: ignore extra colon after hostname
Test fixes for git-p4.
* va/fix-git-p4-tests:
t9814: guarantee only one source exists in git-p4 copy tests
git-p4: fix copy detection test
t9814: fix broken shell syntax in git-p4 rename test
The "git push --signed" protocol extension did not limit what the
"nonce" that is a server-chosen string can contain or how long it
can be, which was unnecessarily lax. Limit both the length and the
alphabet to a reasonably small space that can still have enough
entropy.
* jc/push-cert:
push --signed: tighten what the receiving end can ask to sign
The completion script (in contrib/) contaminated global namespace
and clobbered on a shell variable $x.
* ma/bash-completion-leaking-x:
completion: fix global bash variable leak on __gitcompappend
A broken or badly formatted commit might not record author or
committer lines or we may not find a valid name on them. The
function record_person() returned after calling get_commit_buffer()
without calling unuse_commit_buffer() on the memory it obtained in
such cases, potentially leaking it.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 33d4221 (write_sha1_file: freshen existing objects,
2014-10-15), we update the mtime of existing objects that we
would have written out (had they not existed). For the
common case in which many objects are packed, we may update
the mtime on a single packfile repeatedly. This can result
in a noticeable performance problem if calling utime() is
expensive (e.g., because your storage is on NFS).
We can fix this by keeping a per-pack flag that lets us
freshen only once per program invocation.
An alternative would be to keep the packed_git.mtime flag up
to date as we freshen, and freshen only once every N
seconds. In practice, it's not worth the complexity. We are
racing against prune expiration times here, which inherently
must be set to accomodate reasonable program running times
(because they really care about the time between an object
being written and it becoming referenced, and the latter is
typically the last step a program takes).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When writing out an object file, we first check whether it
already exists and if so optimize out the write. Prior to
33d4221, we did this by calling has_sha1_file(), which will
check for packed objects followed by loose. Since that
commit, we check loose objects first.
For the common case of a repository whose objects are mostly
packed, this means we will make a lot of extra access()
system calls checking for loose objects. We should follow
the same packed-then-loose order that all of our other
lookups use.
Reported-by: Stefan Saasen <ssaasen@atlassian.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When pruning and repacking a repository that has an
alternate object store configured, we may traverse a large
number of objects in the alternate. This serves no purpose,
and may be expensive to do. A longer explanation is below.
Commits d3038d2 and abcb865 taught prune and pack-objects
(respectively) to treat "recent" objects as tips for
reachability, so that we keep whole chunks of history. They
built on the object traversal in 660c889 (sha1_file: add
for_each iterators for loose and packed objects,
2014-10-15), which covers both local and alternate objects.
In both cases, covering alternate objects is unnecessary, as
both commands can only drop objects from the local
repository. In the case of prune, we traverse only the local
object directory. And in the case of repacking, while we may
or may not include local objects in our pack, we will never
reach into the alternate with "repack -d". The "-l" option
is only a question of whether we are migrating objects from
the alternate into our repository, or leaving them
untouched.
It is possible that we may drop an object that is depended
upon by another object in the alternate. For example,
imagine two repositories, A and B, with A pointing to B as
an alternate. Now imagine a commit that is in B which
references a tree that is only in A. Traversing from recent
objects in B might prevent A from dropping that tree. But
this case isn't worth covering. Repo B should take
responsibility for its own objects. It would never have had
the commit in the first place if it did not also have the
tree, and assuming it is using the same "keep recent chunks
of history" scheme, then it would itself keep the tree, as
well.
So checking the alternate objects is not worth doing, and
come with a significant performance impact. In both cases,
we skip any recent objects that have already been marked
SEEN (i.e., that we know are already reachable for prune, or
included in the pack for a repack). So there is a slight
waste of time in opening the alternate packs at all, only to
notice that we have already considered each object. But much
worse, the alternate repository may have a large number of
objects that are not reachable from the local repository at
all, and we end up adding them to the traversal.
We can fix this by considering only local unseen objects.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old message did not mention the :regex:file form.
To avoid overly long lines, split the message into two lines (in case
item->string is long, it will be the only part truncated in a narrow
terminal).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old wording was somehow implying that <start> and <end> were not
regular expressions. Also, the common case is to use a plain function
name here so <funcname> makes sense (the fact that it is a regular
expression is documented in line-range-format.txt).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Merge tag 'gitgui-0.20.0' of http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui
git-gui 0.20.0
* tag 'gitgui-0.20.0' of http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui:
git-gui: set version 0.20
git-gui: sv.po: Update Swedish translation (547t0f0u)
git-gui i18n: Updated Bulgarian translation (547t,0f,0u)
git-gui: Makes chooser set 'gitdir' to the resolved path
git-gui: Fixes chooser not accepting gitfiles
git-gui: reinstate support for Tcl 8.4
git-gui: fix problem with gui.maxfilesdisplayed
git-gui: fix verbose loading when git path contains spaces.
git-gui/gitk: Do not depend on Cygwin's "kill" command on Windows
git-gui: add configurable tab size to the diff view
git-gui: Make git-gui lib dir configurable at runime
git-gui i18n: Updated Bulgarian translation (520t,0f,0u)
L10n: vi.po (543t): Init translation for Vietnamese
git-gui: align the new recursive checkbox with the radiobuttons.
git-gui: Add a 'recursive' checkbox in the clone menu.
Tested on Gentoo and OpenSUSE 13.1, both x86-64
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we are limiting a rev-list traversal due to
UNINTERESTING refs, we have to walk down the tips (both
interesting and uninteresting) to find where they intersect.
We keep a queue of commits to examine, pop commits off
the queue one by one, and potentially add their parents. The
size of the queue will naturally fluctuate based on the
"width" of the history graph; i.e., the number of
simultaneous lines of development. But for the most part it
will stay in the same ballpark as the initial number of tips
we fed, shrinking over time (as we hit common ancestors of
the tips). So roughly speaking, if we start with `N` tips,
we'll spend much of the time with a queue around `N` items.
For each UNINTERESTING commit we pop, we call
still_interesting to check whether marking its parents as
UNINTERESTING has made the whole queue uninteresting (in
which case we can quit early). Because the queue is stored
as a linked list, this is `O(N)`, where `N` is the number of
items in the queue. So processing a queue with `N` commits
marked UNINTERESTING (and one or more interesting commits)
will take `O(N^2)`.
If you feed a lot of positive tips, this isn't a problem.
They aren't UNINTERESTING, so they don't incur the
still_interesting check. It also isn't a problem if you
traverse from an interesting tip to some UNINTERESTING
bases. We order the queue by recency, so the interesting
commits stay at the front of the queue as we walk down them.
The linear check can exit early as soon as it sees one
interesting commit left in the queue.
But if you want to know whether an older commit is reachable
from a set of newer tips, we end up processing in the
opposite direction: from the UNINTERESTING ones down to the
interesting one. This may happen when we call:
git rev-list $commits --not --all
in check_everything_connected after a fetch. If we fetched
something much older than most of our refs, and if we have a
large number of refs, the traversal cost is dominated by the
quadratic behavior.
These commands simulate the connectivity check of such a
fetch, when you have `$n` distinct refs in the receiver:
# positive ref is 100,000 commits deep
git rev-list --all | head -100000 | tail -1 >input
# huge number of more recent negative refs
git rev-list --all | head -$n | sed s/^/^/ >>input
time git rev-list --stdin <input
Here are timings for various `n` on the linux.git
repository. The `n=1` case provides a baseline for just
walking the commits, which lets us see the still_interesting
overhead. The times marked with `+` subtract that baseline
to show just the extra time growth due to the large number
of refs. The `x` numbers show the slowdown of the adjusted
time versus the prior trial.
n | before | after
--------------------------------------------------------
1 | 0.991s | 0.848s
10000 | 1.120s (+0.129s) | 0.885s (+0.037s)
20000 | 1.451s (+0.460s, 3.5x) | 0.923s (+0.075s, 2.0x)
40000 | 2.731s (+1.740s, 3.8x) | 0.994s (+0.146s, 1.9x)
80000 | 8.235s (+7.244s, 4.2x) | 1.123s (+0.275s, 1.9x)
Each trial doubles `n`, so you can see the quadratic (`4x`)
behavior before this patch. Afterwards, we have a roughly
linear relationship.
The implementation is fairly straightforward. Whenever we do
the linear search, we cache the interesting commit we find,
and next time check it before doing another linear search.
If that commit is removed from the list or becomes
UNINTERESTING itself, then we fall back to the linear
search. This is very similar to the trick used by fce87ae
(Fix quadratic performance in rewrite_one., 2008-07-12).
I considered and rejected several possible alternatives:
1. Keep a count of UNINTERESTING commits in the queue.
This requires managing the count not only when removing
an item from the queue, but also when marking an item
as UNINTERESTING. That requires touching the other
functions which mark commits, and would require knowing
quickly which commits are in the queue (lookup in the
queue is linear, so we would need an auxiliary
structure or to also maintain an IN_QUEUE flag in each
commit object).
2. Keep a separate list of interesting commits. Drop items
from it when they are dropped from the queue, or if
they become UNINTERESTING. This again suffers from
extra complexity to maintain the list, not to mention
CPU and memory.
3. Use a better data structure for the queue. This is
something that could help the fix in fce87ae, because
we order the queue by recency, and it is about
inserting quickly in recency order. So a normal
priority queue would help there. But here, we cannot
disturb the order of the queue, which makes things
harder. We really do need an auxiliary index to track
the flag we care about, which is basically option (2)
above.
The "cache" trick is simple, and the numbers above show that
it works well in practice. This is because the length of
time it takes to find an interesting commit is proportional
to the length of time it will remain cached (i.e., if we
have to walk a long way to find it, it also means we have to
pop a lot of elements in the queue until we get rid of it
and have to find another interesting commit).
The worst case is still quadratic, though. We could have `N`
uninteresting commits at the front of the queue, followed by
`N` interesting commits, where commit `i` has parent `i+N`.
When we pop commit `i`, we will notice that the parent of
the next commit, `i+1+N` is still interesting and cache it.
But then handling commit `i+1`, we will mark its parent
`i+1+N` uninteresting, and immediately invalidate our cache.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When commit fe8e3b7 refactored type_from_string to allow
input that was not NUL-terminated, it switched to using
strncmp instead of strcmp. But this means we check only the
first "len" bytes of the strings, and ignore any remaining
bytes in the object_type_string. We should make sure that it
is also "len" bytes, or else we would accept "comm" as
"commit", and so forth.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name (not user) and email setting should be in config section
"user" and not in "core" as documented in Documentation/config.txt.
Signed-off-by: Ossi Herrala <oherrala@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The second argument to test_path_is_file and test_path_is_dir
must be $2 and not $*, which instead would repeat the file
name in the error message.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Because the function reads one character at the time, unfortunately
we cannot use the easier skip_utf8_bom() helper, but at least we do
not have to duplicate the constant string this way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the recent change to ignore the UTF8 BOM at the beginning of
.gitignore files, we now have two codepaths that do such a skipping
(the other one is for reading the configuration files).
Introduce utf8_bom[] constant string and skip_utf8_bom() helper
and teach .gitignore code how to use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though the previous step shifts where the "entry" begins, we
still iterate over the original buf[], which may begin with the
UTF-8 BOM we are supposed to be skipping. At the end of the first
line, the code grabs the contents of it starting at "entry", so
there is nothing wrong per-se, but the logic looks really confused.
Instead, move the buf pointer and shrink its size, to truly
pretend that UTF-8 BOM did not exist in the input.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some text editors like Notepad or LibreOffice write an UTF-8 BOM in
order to indicate that the file is Unicode text rather than whatever the
current locale would indicate.
If someone uses such an editor to edit a gitignore file, we are left
with those three bytes at the beginning of the file. If we do not skip
them, we will attempt to match a filename with the BOM as prefix, which
won't match the files the user is expecting.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 2bf15a3330, whose
intention was good, but the verbosity levels used in merge-recursive
turns out to be rather uneven. For example, a merge of two branches
with conflicting submodule updates used to report CONFLICT: output
with --quiet but no longer (which *is* desired), while the final
"Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit" message is
still shown even with --quiet (which *is* inconsistent).
Originally reported by Bryan Turner; it is too early to declare what
the concensus is, but it seems that we would need to level the
verbosity levels used in merge strategy backends before we can go
forward. In the meantime, we'd revert to the old behaviour until
that happens.
cf. $gmane/267245
