Code clean-up.
* rs/janitorial:
dir: remove unused variable sb
clean: remove unused variable buf
use file_exists() to check if a file exists in the worktree
Teach the index to optionally remember already seen untracked files
to speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft.
* nd/untracked-cache: (24 commits)
git-status.txt: advertisement for untracked cache
untracked cache: guard and disable on system changes
mingw32: add uname()
t7063: tests for untracked cache
update-index: test the system before enabling untracked cache
update-index: manually enable or disable untracked cache
status: enable untracked cache
untracked-cache: temporarily disable with $GIT_DISABLE_UNTRACKED_CACHE
untracked cache: mark index dirty if untracked cache is updated
untracked cache: print stats with $GIT_TRACE_UNTRACKED_STATS
untracked cache: avoid racy timestamps
read-cache.c: split racy stat test to a separate function
untracked cache: invalidate at index addition or removal
untracked cache: load from UNTR index extension
untracked cache: save to an index extension
ewah: add convenient wrapper ewah_serialize_strbuf()
untracked cache: don't open non-existent .gitignore
untracked cache: mark what dirs should be recursed/saved
untracked cache: record/validate dir mtime and reuse cached output
untracked cache: make a wrapper around {open,read,close}dir()
...
core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed
to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but
the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it.
* jc/gitignore-precedence:
ignore: info/exclude should trump core.excludesfile
Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files
that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the
beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
files already.
* cn/bom-in-gitignore:
attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file
config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source()
utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper
add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic
dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.
* pt/xdg-config-path:
path.c: remove home_config_paths()
git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
Since only the xdg excludes file path is required, simplify the code by
replacing use of home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home().
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files
that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the
beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
files already.
* cn/bom-in-gitignore:
attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file
config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source()
utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper
add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic
dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files
$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>
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>
The expected call sequence is for the caller to use match_pathspec()
repeatedly on a set of pathspecs, accumulating the "hits" in a
separate array, and then call this function to diagnose a pathspec
that never matched anything, as that can indicate a typo from the
command line, e.g. "git commit Maekfile".
Many builtin commands use this function from builtin/ls-files.c,
which is not a very healthy arrangement. ls-files might have been
the first command to feel the need for such a helper, but the need
is shared by everybody who uses the "match and then report" pattern.
Move it to dir.c where match_pathspec() is defined.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user enables untracked cache, then
- move worktree to an unsupported filesystem
- or simply upgrade OS
- or move the whole (portable) disk from one machine to another
- or access a shared fs from another machine
there's no guarantee that untracked cache can still function properly.
Record the worktree location and OS footprint in the cache. If it
changes, err on the safe side and disable the cache. The user can
'update-index --untracked-cache' again to make sure all conditions are
met.
This adds a new requirement that setup_git_directory* must be called
before read_cache() because we need worktree location by then, or the
cache is dropped.
This change does not cover all bases, you can fool it if you try
hard. The point is to stop accidents.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This can be used to double check if results with untracked cache are
correctly, compared to vanilla version. Untracked cache remains in
index, but not used.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This could be used to verify correct behavior in tests
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a directory is updated within the same second that its timestamp
is last saved, we cannot realize the directory has been updated by
checking timestamps. Assume the worst (something is update). See
29e4d36 (Racy GIT - 2005-12-20) for more information.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ideally we should implement untracked_cache_remove_from_index() and
untracked_cache_add_to_index() so that they update untracked cache
right away instead of invalidating it and wait for read_directory()
next time to deal with it. But that may need some more work in
unpack-trees.c. So stay simple as the first step.
The new call in add_index_entry_with_check() may look strange because
new calls usually stay close to cache_tree_invalidate_path(). We do it
a bit later than c_t_i_p() in this function because if it's about
replacing the entry with the same name, we don't care (but cache-tree
does).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This cuts down a signficant number of open(.gitignore) because most
directories usually don't have .gitignore files.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we redo this thing in a functional style, we would have one struct
untracked_dir as input tree and another as output. The input is used
for verification. The output is a brand new tree, reflecting current
worktree.
But that means recreate a lot of dir nodes even if a lot could be
shared between input and output trees in good cases. So we go with the
messy but efficient way, combining both input and output trees into
one. We need a way to know which node in this combined tree belongs to
the output. This is the purpose of this "recurse" flag.
"valid" bit can't be used for this because it's about data of the node
except the subdirs. When we invalidate a directory, we want to keep
cached data of the subdirs intact even though we don't really know
what subdir still exists (yet). Then we check worktree to see what
actual subdir remains on disk. Those will have 'recurse' bit set
again. If cached data for those are still valid, we may be able to
avoid computing exclude files for them. Those subdirs that are deleted
will have 'recurse' remained clear and their 'valid' bits do not
matter.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The main readdir loop in read_directory_recursive() is replaced with a
new one that checks if cached results of a directory is still valid.
If a file is added or removed from the index, the containing directory
is invalidated (but not its subdirs). If directory's mtime is changed,
the same happens. If a .gitignore is updated, the containing directory
and all subdirs are invalidated recursively. If dir_struct#flags or
other conditions change, the cache is ignored.
If a directory is invalidated, we opendir/readdir/closedir and run the
exclude machinery on that directory listing as usual. If untracked
cache is also enabled, we'll update the cache along the way. If a
directory is validated, we simply pull the untracked listing out from
the cache. The cache also records the list of direct subdirs that we
have to recurse in. Fully excluded directories are seen as "untracked
files".
In the best case when no dirs are invalidated, read_directory()
becomes a series of
stat(dir), open(.gitignore), fstat(), read(), close() and optionally
hash_sha1_file()
For comparison, standard read_directory() is a sequence of
opendir(), readdir(), open(.gitignore), fstat(), read(), close(), the
expensive last_exclude_matching() and closedir().
We already try not to open(.gitignore) if we know it does not exist,
so open/fstat/read/close sequence does not apply to every
directory. The sequence could be reduced further, as noted in
prep_exclude() in another patch. So in theory, the entire best-case
read_directory sequence could be reduced to a series of stat() and
nothing else.
This is not a silver bullet approach. When you compile a C file, for
example, the old .o file is removed and a new one with the same name
created, effectively invalidating the containing directory's cache
(but not its subdirectories). If your build process touches every
directory, this cache adds extra overhead for nothing, so it's a good
idea to separate generated files from tracked files.. Editors may use
the same strategy for saving files. And of course you're out of luck
running your repo on an unsupported filesystem and/or operating system.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows us to feed different info to read_directory_recursive()
based on untracked cache in the next patch.
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's easy to see that if an existing .gitignore changes, its SHA-1
would be different and invalidate_gitignore() is called.
If .gitignore is removed, add_excludes() will treat it like an empty
.gitignore, which again should invalidate the cached directory data.
if .gitignore is added, lookup_untracked() already fills initial
.gitignore SHA-1 as "empty file", so again invalidate_gitignore() is
called.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make sure the starting conditions and all global exclude files are
good to go. If not, either disable untracked cache completely, or wipe
out the cache and start fresh.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The idea is if we can capture all input and (non-rescursive) output of
read_directory_recursive(), and can verify later that all the input is
the same, then the second r_d_r() should produce the same output as in
the first run.
The requirement for this to work is stat info of a directory MUST
change if an entry is added to or removed from that directory (and
should not change often otherwise). If your OS and filesystem do not
meet this requirement, untracked cache is not for you. Most file
systems on *nix should be fine. On Windows, NTFS is fine while FAT may
not be [1] even though FAT on Linux seems to be fine.
The list of input of r_d_r() is in the big comment block in dir.h. In
short, the output of a directory (not counting subdirs) mainly depends
on stat info of the directory in question, all .gitignore leading to
it and the check_only flag when r_d_r() is called recursively. This
patch records all this info (and the output) as r_d_r() runs.
Two hash_sha1_file() are required for $GIT_DIR/info/exclude and
core.excludesfile unless their stat data matches. hash_sha1_file() is
only needed when .gitignore files in the worktree are modified,
otherwise their SHA-1 in index is used (see the previous patch).
We could store stat data for .gitignore files so we don't have to
rehash them if their content is different from index, but I think
.gitignore files are rarely modified, so not worth extra cache data
(and hashing penalty read-cache.c:verify_hdr(), as we will be storing
this as an index extension).
The implication is, if you change .gitignore, you better add it to the
index soon or you lose all the benefit of untracked cache because a
modified .gitignore invalidates all subdirs recursively. This is
especially bad for .gitignore at root.
This cached output is about untracked files only, not ignored files
because the number of tracked files is usually small, so small cache
overhead, while the number of ignored files could go really high
(e.g. *.o files mixing with source code).
[1] "Description of NTFS date and time stamps for files and folders"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299648
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Helped-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is not used anywhere yet. But the goal is to compare quickly if a
.gitignore file has changed when we have the SHA-1 of both old (cached
somewhere) and new (from index or a tree) versions.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This "stk" shadows the first declaration at the top. There's currently
no bad effect. But let's avoid it.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reduce the use of fixed sized buffer passed to getcwd() calls
by introducing xgetcwd() helper.
* rs/strbuf-getcwd:
use strbuf_add_absolute_path() to add absolute paths
abspath: convert absolute_path() to strbuf
use xgetcwd() to set $GIT_DIR
use xgetcwd() to get the current directory or die
wrapper: add xgetcwd()
abspath: convert real_path_internal() to strbuf
abspath: use strbuf_getcwd() to remember original working directory
setup: convert setup_git_directory_gently_1 et al. to strbuf
unix-sockets: use strbuf_getcwd()
strbuf: add strbuf_getcwd()
Convert several calls of getcwd() and die() to use xgetcwd() instead.
This way we get rid of fixed-size buffers (which can be too small
depending on the used file system) and gain consistent error messages.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This fixes a segfault in git-status with long paths on Windows,
where PATH_MAX is only 260.
This also fixes the problem of silently ignoring .gitignore if the
full path exceeds PATH_MAX. Now add_excludes_from_file() will report
if it gets ENAMETOOLONG.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We often represent our strings as a counted string, i.e. a pair of
the pointer to the beginning of the string and its length, and the
string may not be NUL terminated to that length.
To compare a pair of such counted strings, unpack-trees.c and
read-cache.c implement their own name_compare() functions
identically. In addition, the cache_name_compare() function in
read-cache.c is nearly identical. The only difference is when one
string is the prefix of the other string, in which case
name_compare() returns -1/+1 to show which one is longer, and
cache_name_compare() returns the difference of the lengths to show
the same information.
Unify these three functions by using the implementation from
cache_name_compare(). This does not make any difference to the
existing and future callers, as they must be paying attention only
to the sign of the returned value (and not the magnitude) because
the original implementations of these two functions return values
returned by memcmp(3) when the one string is not a prefix of the
other string, and the only thing memcmp(3) guarantees its callers is
the sign of the returned value, not the magnitude.
Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Discard the unnecessary 'nr_spaces' variable, remove 'strlen()' and
improve the 'if' structure. Switch to pointers instead of integers
to control the loop.
Slightly more rare occurrences of 'text \ ' with a backslash
in between spaces are handled correctly. Namely, the code in
7e2e4b37 (dir: ignore trailing spaces in exclude patterns, 2014-02-09)
does not reset 'last_space' when a backslash is encountered and the above
line stays intact as a result.
Add a test at the end of t/t0008-ignores.sh to exhibit this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Pasha Bolokhov <pasha.bolokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that it calls a static inline function, it cannot be an inline
definition with external linkage. Remove inline and make it an
external definition.
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace open-coded reallocation with ALLOC_GROW() macro.
* dd/use-alloc-grow:
sha1_file.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in pretend_sha1_file()
read-cache.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_index_entry()
builtin/mktree.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in append_to_tree()
attr.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in handle_attr_line()
dir.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in create_simplify()
reflog-walk.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
replace_object.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in register_replace_object()
patch-ids.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_commit()
diffcore-rename.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
diff.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
commit.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in register_commit_graft()
cache-tree.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in find_subtree()
bundle.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_to_ref_list()
builtin/pack-objects.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in check_pbase_path()
We started using wildmatch() in place of fnmatch(3); complete the
process and stop using fnmatch(3).
* nd/no-more-fnmatch:
actually remove compat fnmatch source code
stop using fnmatch (either native or compat)
Revert "test-wildmatch: add "perf" command to compare wildmatch and fnmatch"
use wildmatch() directly without fnmatch() wrapper
Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted for
fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored.
Strictly speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very
unlikely to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and
easy.
* nd/gitignore-trailing-whitespace:
t0008: skip trailing space test on Windows
dir: ignore trailing spaces in exclude patterns
dir: warn about trailing spaces in exclude patterns
This patch activates the DO_MATCH_DIRECTORY code in m_p_i(), which
makes "git diff HEAD submodule/" and "git diff HEAD submodule" produce
the same output. Previously only the version without trailing slash
returns the difference (if any).
That's the effect of new ce_path_match(). dir_path_match() is not
executed by the new tests. And it should not introduce regressions.
Previously if path "dir/" is passed in with pathspec "dir/", they
obviously match. With new dir_path_match(), the path becomes
_directory_ "dir" vs pathspec "dir/", which is not executed by the old
code path in m_p_i(). The new code path is executed and produces the
same result.
The other case is pathspec "dir" and path "dir/" is now turned to
"dir" (with DO_MATCH_DIRECTORY). Still the same result before or after
the patch.
So why change? Because of the next patch about clean.c.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently we do support matching pathspec "foo/" against directory
"foo". That is because match_pathspec() has no way to tell "foo" is a
directory and matching "foo/" against _file_ "foo" is wrong.
The callers can now tell match_pathspec if "foo" is a directory, we
could make an exception for this case. Code is not executed though
because no callers pass the flag yet.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A long time ago, for some reason I was not happy with
match_pathspec(). I created a better version, match_pathspec_depth()
that was suppose to replace match_pathspec()
eventually. match_pathspec() has finally been gone since 6 months
ago. Use the shorter name for match_pathspec_depth().
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it clear that we don't use fnmatch() anymore.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up and protection against concurrent write access to the
ref namespace.
* mh/safe-create-leading-directories:
rename_tmp_log(): on SCLD_VANISHED, retry
rename_tmp_log(): limit the number of remote_empty_directories() attempts
rename_tmp_log(): handle a possible mkdir/rmdir race
rename_ref(): extract function rename_tmp_log()
remove_dir_recurse(): handle disappearing files and directories
remove_dir_recurse(): tighten condition for removing unreadable dir
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): if locking fails with ENOENT, retry
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): on SCLD_VANISHED, retry
safe_create_leading_directories(): add new error value SCLD_VANISHED
cmd_init_db(): when creating directories, handle errors conservatively
safe_create_leading_directories(): introduce enum for return values
safe_create_leading_directories(): always restore slash at end of loop
safe_create_leading_directories(): split on first of multiple slashes
safe_create_leading_directories(): rename local variable
safe_create_leading_directories(): add explicit "slash" pointer
safe_create_leading_directories(): reduce scope of local variable
safe_create_leading_directories(): fix format of "if" chaining
If a file or directory that we are trying to remove disappears (e.g.,
because another process has pruned it), do not consider it an error.
However, if REMOVE_DIR_KEEP_TOPLEVEL is set, and the toplevel
directory is missing, then consider it an error (like before).
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If opendir() fails on the top-level directory, it makes sense to try
to delete it anyway--but only if the failure was due to EACCES.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
directory_exists_in_index_icase() dangerously assumed that it could
access one character beyond the end of its directory argument, and that
that character would unconditionally be '/'. 2eac2a4c (ls-files -k: a
directory only can be killed if the index has a non-directory,
2013-08-15) added a caller which did not respect this undocumented
assumption, and 680be044 (dir.c::test_one_path(): work around
directory_exists_in_index_icase() breakage, 2013-08-23) added a
work-around which temporarily appends a '/' before invoking
directory_exists_in_index_icase().
Since the dangerous behavior of directory_exists_in_index_icase() has
been eliminated, the work-around is now redundant, so retire it (but not
the tests added by the same commit).
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 5102c617 (Add case insensitivity support for directories when using
git status, 2010-10-03) added directories to the name-hash there was
only a single hash table in which both real cache entries and leading
directory prefixes were registered. To distinguish between the two types
of entries, directories were stored with a trailing '/'.
2092678c (name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true,
2013-02-28), however, moved directories to a separate hash table
(index_state.dir_hash) but retained the (now) redundant trailing '/',
thus callers continue to bear the burden of ensuring the slash's
presence before searching the index for a directory. Eliminate this
redundancy by storing paths in the dir-hash without the trailing '/'.
An important benefit of this change is that it eliminates undocumented
and dangerous behavior of dir.c:directory_exists_in_index_icase() in
which it assumes not only that it can validly access one character
beyond the end of its incoming directory argument, but also that that
character will unconditionally be a '/'. This perilous behavior was
"tolerated" because the string passed in by its lone caller always had a
'/' in that position, however, things broke [1] when 2eac2a4c (ls-files
-k: a directory only can be killed if the index has a non-directory,
2013-08-15) added a new caller which failed to respect the undocumented
assumption.
[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/232727
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each caller of index_name_exists() knows whether it is looking for a
directory or a file, and can avoid the unnecessary indirection of
index_name_exists() by instead calling index_dir_exists() or
index_file_exists() directly.
Invoking the appropriate search function explicitly will allow a
subsequent patch to relieve callers of the artificial burden of having
to add a trailing '/' to the pathname given to index_dir_exists().
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git ls-files -k" needs to crawl only the part of the working tree
that may overlap the paths in the index to find killed files, but
shared code with the logic to find all the untracked files, which
made it unnecessarily inefficient.
* jc/ls-files-killed-optim:
dir.c::test_one_path(): work around directory_exists_in_index_icase() breakage
t3010: update to demonstrate "ls-files -k" optimization pitfalls
ls-files -k: a directory only can be killed if the index has a non-directory
dir.c: use the cache_* macro to access the current index
"git mv A B" when moving a submodule A does "the right thing",
inclusing relocating its working tree and adjusting the paths in
the .gitmodules file.
* jl/submodule-mv: (53 commits)
rm: delete .gitmodules entry of submodules removed from the work tree
mv: update the path entry in .gitmodules for moved submodules
submodule.c: add .gitmodules staging helper functions
mv: move submodules using a gitfile
mv: move submodules together with their work trees
rm: do not set a variable twice without intermediate reading.
t6131 - skip tests if on case-insensitive file system
parse_pathspec: accept :(icase)path syntax
pathspec: support :(glob) syntax
pathspec: make --literal-pathspecs disable pathspec magic
pathspec: support :(literal) syntax for noglob pathspec
kill limit_pathspec_to_literal() as it's only used by parse_pathspec()
parse_pathspec: preserve prefix length via PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN
parse_pathspec: make sure the prefix part is wildcard-free
rename field "raw" to "_raw" in struct pathspec
tree-diff: remove the use of pathspec's raw[] in follow-rename codepath
remove match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth()
remove init_pathspec() in favor of parse_pathspec()
remove diff_tree_{setup,release}_paths
convert common_prefix() to use struct pathspec
...
directory_exists_in_index() takes pathname and its length, but its
helper function directory_exists_in_index_icase() reads one byte
beyond the end of the pathname and expects there to be a '/'.
This needs to be fixed, as that one-byte-beyond-the-end location may
not even be readable, possibly by not registering directories to
name hashes with trailing slashes. In the meantime, update the new
caller added recently to treat_one_path() to make sure that the path
buffer it gives the function is one byte longer than the path it is
asking the function about by appending a slash to it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"ls-files -o" and "ls-files -k" both traverse the working tree down
to find either all untracked paths or those that will be "killed"
(removed from the working tree to make room) when the paths recorded
in the index are checked out. It is necessary to traverse the
working tree fully when enumerating all the "other" paths, but when
we are only interested in "killed" paths, we can take advantage of
the fact that paths that do not overlap with entries in the index
can never be killed.
The treat_one_path() helper function, which is called during the
recursive traversal, is the ideal place to implement an
optimization.
When we are looking at a directory P in the working tree, there are
three cases:
(1) P exists in the index. Everything inside the directory P in
the working tree needs to go when P is checked out from the
index.
(2) P does not exist in the index, but there is P/Q in the index.
We know P will stay a directory when we check out the contents
of the index, but we do not know yet if there is a directory
P/Q in the working tree to be killed, so we need to recurse.
(3) P does not exist in the index, and there is no P/Q in the index
to require P to be a directory, either. Only in this case, we
know that everything inside P will not be killed without
recursing.
Note that this helper is called by treat_leading_path() that decides
if we need to traverse only subdirectories of a single common
leading directory, which is essential for this optimization to be
correct. This caller checks each level of the leading path
component from shallower directory to deeper ones, and that is what
allows us to only check if the path appears in the index. If the
call to treat_one_path() weren't there, given a path P/Q/R, the real
traversal may start from directory P/Q/R, even when the index
records P as a regular file, and we would end up having to check if
any leading subpath in P/Q/R, e.g. P, appears in the index.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These codepaths always start from the_index and use index_*
functions, but there is no reason to do so. Use the compatibility
cache_* macro to access the current in-core index like everybody
else.
While at it, fix typo in the comment for a function to check if a
path within a directory appears in the index.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
:(glob)path differs from plain pathspec that it uses wildmatch with
WM_PATHNAME while the other uses fnmatch without FNM_PATHNAME. The
difference lies in how '*' (and '**') is processed.
With the introduction of :(glob) and :(literal) and their global
options --[no]glob-pathspecs, the user can:
- make everything literal by default via --noglob-pathspecs
--literal-pathspecs cannot be used for this purpose as it
disables _all_ pathspec magic.
- individually turn on globbing with :(glob)
- make everything globbing by default via --glob-pathspecs
- individually turn off globbing with :(literal)
The implication behind this is, there is no way to gain the default
matching behavior (i.e. fnmatch without FNM_PATHNAME). You either get
new globbing or literal. The old fnmatch behavior is considered
deprecated and discouraged to use.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch is essentially no-op. It helps catching new use of this
field though. This field is introduced as an intermediate step for the
pathspec conversion and will be removed eventually. At this stage no
more access sites should be introduced.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
match_pathspec_depth was created to replace match_pathspec (see
61cf282 (pathspec: add match_pathspec_depth() - 2010-12-15). It took
more than two years, but the replacement finally happens :-)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While at there, move free_pathspec() to pathspec.c
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code now takes advantage of nowildcard_len field.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
GUARD_PATHSPEC() marks pathspec-sensitive code, basically all those
that touch anything in 'struct pathspec' except fields "nr" and
"original". GUARD_PATHSPEC() is not supposed to fail. It's mainly to
help the designers catch unsupported codepaths.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
match_pathspec_depth() and tree_entry_interesting() check max_depth
field in order to support "git grep --max-depth". The feature
activation is tied to "recursive" field, which led to some unwanted
activation, e.g. 5c8eeb8 (diff-index: enable recursive pathspec
matching in unpack_trees - 2012-01-15).
This patch decouples the activation from "recursive" field, puts it in
"magic" field instead. This makes sure that only "git grep" can
activate this feature. And because parse_pathspec knows when the
feature is not used, it does not need to sort pathspec (required for
max_depth to work correctly). A small win for non-grep cases.
Even though a new magic flag is introduced, no magic syntax is. The
magic can be only enabled by parse_pathspec() caller. We might someday
want to support ":(maxdepth:10)src." It all depends on actual use
cases.
max_depth feature cannot be enabled via init_pathspec() anymore. But
that's ok because init_pathspec() is on its way to /dev/null.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We usually use pathspec_item's match field for pathspec error
reporting. However "match" (or "raw") does not show the magic part,
which will play more important role later on. Preserve exact user
input for reporting.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently to fill a struct pathspec, we do:
const char **paths;
paths = get_pathspec(prefix, argv);
...
init_pathspec(&pathspec, paths);
"paths" can only carry bare strings, which loses information from
command line arguments such as pathspec magic or the prefix part's
length for each argument.
parse_pathspec() is introduced to combine the two calls into one. The
plan is gradually replace all get_pathspec() and init_pathspec() with
parse_pathspec(). get_pathspec() now becomes a thin wrapper of
parse_pathspec().
parse_pathspec() allows the caller to reject the pathspec magics that
it does not support. When a new pathspec magic is introduced, we can
enable it per command after making sure that all underlying code has no
problem with the new magic.
"flags" parameter is currently unused. But it would allow callers to
pass certain instructions to parse_pathspec, for example forcing
literal pathspec when no magic is used.
With the introduction of parse_pathspec, there are now two functions
that can initialize struct pathspec: init_pathspec and
parse_pathspec. Any semantic changes in struct pathspec must be
reflected in both functions. init_pathspec() will be phased out in
favor of parse_pathspec().
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I attempted to make index_state->cache[] a "const struct cache_entry **"
to find out how existing entries in index are modified and where. The
question I have is what do we do if we really need to keep track of on-disk
changes in the index. The result is
- diff-lib.c: setting CE_UPTODATE
- name-hash.c: setting CE_HASHED
- preload-index.c, read-cache.c, unpack-trees.c and
builtin/update-index: obvious
- entry.c: write_entry() may refresh the checked out entry via
fill_stat_cache_info(). This causes "non-const struct cache_entry
*" in builtin/apply.c, builtin/checkout-index.c and
builtin/checkout.c
- builtin/ls-files.c: --with-tree changes stagemask and may set
CE_UPDATE
Of these, write_entry() and its call sites are probably most
interesting because it modifies on-disk info. But this is stat info
and can be retrieved via refresh, at least for porcelain
commands. Other just uses ce_flags for local purposes.
So, keeping track of "dirty" entries is just a matter of setting a
flag in index modification functions exposed by read-cache.c. Except
unpack-trees, the rest of the code base does not do anything funny
behind read-cache's back.
The actual patch is less valueable than the summary above. But if
anyone wants to re-identify the above sites. Applying this patch, then
this:
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 430d021..1692891 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ static inline unsigned int canon_mode(unsigned int mode)
#define cache_entry_size(len) (offsetof(struct cache_entry,name) + (len) + 1)
struct index_state {
- struct cache_entry **cache;
+ const struct cache_entry **cache;
unsigned int version;
unsigned int cache_nr, cache_alloc, cache_changed;
struct string_list *resolve_undo;
will help quickly identify them without bogus warnings.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the working tree walker encounters a directory, it asks the
function treat_directory() if it should descend into it, show it as
an untracked directory, or do something else. When the directory is
the top of the submodule working tree, we used to say "That is an
untracked directory", which was bogus.
It is an entity that is tracked in the index of the repository we
are looking at, and that is not to be descended into it. Return
path_none, not path_untracked, to report that.
The existing case that path_untracked is returned for a newly
discovered submodule that is not tracked in the index (this only
happens when DIR_NO_GITLINKS option is not used) is unchanged, but
that is exactly because the submodule is not tracked in the index.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As of 95c6f271 "dir.c: unify is_excluded and is_path_excluded APIs", the
is_excluded API no longer recurses into directories that match an ignore
pattern, and returns the directory's ignored state for all contained paths.
This is OK for normal ignore patterns, i.e. ignoring a directory affects
the entire contents recursively.
Unfortunately, this also "works" for negated ignore patterns ('!dir'), i.e.
the entire contents is "not-ignored" recursively, regardless of ignore
patterns that match the contents directly.
In prep_exclude, skip recursing into a directory only if it is really
ignored (i.e. the ignore pattern is not negated).
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Tested-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we
used to complain and die. This loosens the check.
* jn/config-ignore-inaccessible:
config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOME
'git-status --ignored' still scans the work tree twice to collect
untracked and ignored files, respectively.
fill_directory / read_directory already supports collecting untracked and
ignored files in a single directory scan. However, the DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED
flag to enable this has some git-add specific side-effects (e.g. it
doesn't recurse into ignored directories, so listing ignored files with
--untracked=all doesn't work).
The DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag doesn't list untracked files and returns ignored
files in dir_struct.entries[] (instead of dir_struct.ignored[] as
DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED). DIR_SHOW_IGNORED is used all throughout git.
We don't want to break the existing API, so lets introduce a new flag
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO that lists untracked as well as ignored files similar
to DIR_COLLECT_FILES, but will recurse into sub-directories based on the
other flags as DIR_SHOW_IGNORED does.
In dir.c::read_directory_recursive, add ignored files to either
dir_struct.entries[] or dir_struct.ignored[] based on the flags. Also move
the DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED case here so that filling result lists is in a
common place.
In wt-status.c::wt_status_collect_untracked, use the new flag and read
results from dir_struct.ignored[]. Remove the extra fill_directory call.
builtin/check-ignore.c doesn't call fill_directory, setting the git-add
specific DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED flag has no effect here. Remove for clarity.
Update API documentation to reflect the changes.
Performance: with this patch, 'git-status --ignored' is typically as fast
as 'git-status'.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git-status --ignored' recursively scans directories up to three times:
1. To collect untracked files.
2. To collect ignored files.
3. When collecting ignored files, to check that an untracked directory
that potentially contains ignored files doesn't also contain untracked
files (i.e. isn't already listed as untracked).
Let's get rid of case 3 first.
Currently, read_directory_recursive returns a boolean whether a directory
contains the requested files or not (actually, it returns the number of
files, but no caller actually needs that), and DIR_SHOW_IGNORED specifies
what we're looking for.
To be able to test for both untracked and ignored files in a single scan,
we need to return a bit more info, and the result must be independent of
the DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag.
Reuse the path_treatment enum as return value of read_directory_recursive.
Split path_handled in two separate values path_excluded and path_untracked
that don't change their meaning with the DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag. We don't
need an extra value path_untracked_and_excluded, as directories with both
untracked and ignored files should be listed as untracked.
Rename path_ignored to path_none for clarity (i.e. "don't treat that path"
in contrast to "the path is ignored and should be treated according to
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED").
Replace enum directory_treatment with path_treatment. That's just another
enum with the same meaning, no need to translate back and forth.
In treat_directory, get rid of the extra read_directory_recursive call and
all the DIR_SHOW_IGNORED-specific code.
In read_directory_recursive, decide whether to dir_add_name path_excluded
or path_untracked paths based on the DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag.
The return value of read_directory_recursive is the maximum path_treatment
of all files and sub-directories. In the check_only case, abort when we've
reached the most significant value (path_untracked).
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Checking if a file is in the index is much faster (hashtable lookup) than
checking if the file is excluded (linear search over exclude patterns).
Skip is_excluded checks for files: move the cache_name_exists check from
treat_file to treat_one_path and return early if the file is tracked.
This can safely be done as all other code paths also return path_ignored
for tracked files, and dir_add_ignored skips tracked files as well.
There's just one line left in treat_file, so move this to treat_one_path
as well.
Here's some performance data for git-status from the linux and WebKit
repos (best of 10 runs on a Debian Linux on SSD, core.preloadIndex=true):
| status | status --ignored
| linux | WebKit | linux | WebKit
-------+-------+--------+-------+---------
before | 0.218 | 1.583 | 0.321 | 2.579
after | 0.156 | 0.988 | 0.202 | 1.279
gain | 1.397 | 1.602 | 1.589 | 2.016
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The is_excluded and is_path_excluded APIs are very similar, except for a
few noteworthy differences:
is_excluded doesn't handle ignored directories, results for paths within
ignored directories are incorrect. This is probably based on the premise
that recursive directory scans should stop at ignored directories, which
is no longer true (in certain cases, read_directory_recursive currently
calls is_excluded *and* is_path_excluded to get correct ignored state).
is_excluded caches parsed .gitignore files of the last directory in struct
dir_struct. If the directory changes, it finds a common parent directory
and is very careful to drop only as much state as necessary. On the other
hand, is_excluded will also read and parse .gitignore files in already
ignored directories, which are completely irrelevant.
is_path_excluded correctly handles ignored directories by checking if any
component in the path is excluded. As it uses is_excluded internally, this
unfortunately forces is_excluded to drop and re-read all .gitignore files,
as there is no common parent directory for the root dir.
is_path_excluded tracks state in a separate struct path_exclude_check,
which is essentially a wrapper of dir_struct with two more fields. However,
as is_path_excluded also modifies dir_struct, it is not possible to e.g.
use multiple path_exclude_check structures with the same dir_struct in
parallel. The additional structure just unnecessarily complicates the API.
Teach is_excluded / prep_exclude about ignored directories: whenever
entering a new directory, first check if the entire directory is excluded.
Remember the excluded state in dir_struct. Don't traverse into already
ignored directories (i.e. don't read irrelevant .gitignore files).
Directories could also be excluded by exclude patterns specified on the
command line or .git/info/exclude, so we cannot simply skip prep_exclude
entirely if there's no .gitignore file name (dir_struct.exclude_per_dir).
Move this check to just before actually reading the file.
is_path_excluded is now equivalent to is_excluded, so we can simply
redirect to it (the public API is cleaned up in the next patch).
The performance impact of the additional ignored check per directory is
hardly noticeable when reading directories recursively (e.g. 'git status').
However, performance of git commands using the is_path_excluded API (e.g.
'git ls-files --cached --ignored --exclude-standard') is greatly improved
as this no longer re-reads .gitignore files on each call.
Here's some performance data from the linux and WebKit repos (best of 10
runs on a Debian Linux on SSD, core.preloadIndex=true):
| ls-files -ci | status | status --ignored
| linux | WebKit | linux | WebKit | linux | WebKit
-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+-------+---------
before | 0.506 | 6.539 | 0.212 | 1.555 | 0.323 | 2.541
after | 0.080 | 1.191 | 0.218 | 1.583 | 0.321 | 2.579
gain | 6.325 | 5.490 | 0.972 | 0.982 | 1.006 | 0.985
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The notion of "ignored tracked" directories introduced in 721ac4ed "dir.c:
Make git-status --ignored more consistent" has a few unwanted side effects:
- git-clean -d -X: deletes ignored tracked directories. git-clean should
never delete tracked content.
- git-ls-files --ignored --other --directory: lists ignored tracked
directories instead of "other" directories.
- git-status --ignored: lists ignored tracked directories while contained
files may be listed as modified. Paths listed by git-status should be
disjoint (except in long format where a path may be listed in both the
staged and unstaged section).
Additionally, the current behaviour violates documentation in gitignore(5)
("Specifies intentionally *untracked* files to ignore") and Documentation/
technical/api-directory-listing.txt ("DIR_SHOW_OTHER_DIRECTORIES: Include
a directory that is *not tracked*.").
In dir.c::treat_directory, remove the special handling of ignored tracked
directories, so that the DIR_SHOW_OTHER_DIRECTORIES flag only affects
"other" (i.e. untracked) directories. In dir.c::dir_add_name, check that
added paths are untracked even if DIR_SHOW_IGNORED is set.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git-status --ignored path/' doesn't list ignored files and directories
within 'path' if some component of 'path' is classified as untracked.
Disable the DIR_SHOW_OTHER_DIRECTORIES flag while traversing leading
directories. This prevents treat_leading_path() with DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag
from aborting at the top level untracked directory.
As a side effect, this also eliminates a recursive directory scan per
leading directory level, as treat_directory() can no longer call
read_directory_recursive() when called from treat_leading_path().
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git-status --ignored' lists empty untracked directories as ignored, even
though they don't have any ignored files.
When checking if a directory is already listed as untracked (i.e. shouldn't
be listed as ignored as well), don't assume that the directory has only
ignored files if it doesn't have untracked files, as the directory may be
empty.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git-ls-files --ignored --directories' hides empty directories even though
--no-empty-directory was not specified.
Treat the DIR_HIDE_EMPTY_DIRECTORIES flag independently from
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED to make all git-ls-files options work as expected.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git-status --ignored' lists ignored tracked directories without any
ignored files if a tracked file happens to match an exclude pattern.
Always exclude tracked files.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git-status --ignored' lists both the ignored directory and the ignored
files if the files are in a tracked sub directory.
When recursing into sub directories in read_directory_recursive, pass on
the check_only parameter so that we don't accidentally add the files.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git-status --ignored' drops ignored directories if they contain untracked
files in an untracked sub directory.
Fix it by getting exact (recursive) excluded status in treat_directory.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The changes v1.7.12.1~2^2~4 (config: warn on inaccessible files,
2012-08-21) and v1.8.1.1~22^2~2 (config: treat user and xdg config
permission problems as errors, 2012-10-13) were intended to prevent
important configuration (think "[transfer] fsckobjects") from being
ignored when the configuration is unintentionally unreadable (for
example with EIO on a flaky filesystem, or with ENOMEM due to a DoS
attack). Usually ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git are readable by the
current user, and if they aren't then it would be easy to fix those
permissions, so the damage from adding this check should have been
minimal.
Unfortunately the access() check often trips when git is being run as
a server. A daemon (such as inetd or git-daemon) starts as "root",
creates a listening socket, and then drops privileges, meaning that
when git commands are invoked they cannot access $HOME and die with
fatal: unable to access '/root/.config/git/config': Permission denied
Any patch to fix this would have one of three problems:
1. We annoy sysadmins who need to take an extra step to handle HOME
when dropping privileges (the current behavior, or any other
proposal that they have to opt into).
2. We annoy sysadmins who want to set HOME when dropping privileges,
either by making what they want to do impossible, or making them
set an extra variable or option to accomplish what used to work
(e.g., a patch to git-daemon to set HOME when --user is passed).
3. We loosen the check, so some cases which might be noteworthy are
not caught.
This patch is of type (3).
Treat user and xdg configuration that are inaccessible due to
permissions (EACCES) as though no user configuration was provided at
all.
An alternative method would be to check if $HOME is readable, but that
would not help in cases where the user who dropped privileges had a
globally readable HOME with only .config or .gitconfig being private.
This does not change the behavior when /etc/gitconfig or .git/config
is unreadable (since those are more serious configuration errors),
nor when ~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git is unreadable due to problems
other than permissions.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A handful of test cases and a corner case bugfix for "git rm".
* jk/rm-removed-paths:
t3600: document failure of rm across symbolic links
t3600: test behavior of reverse-d/f conflict
rm: do not complain about d/f conflicts during deletion
