Clean-up to various pieces of Perl code we have.
* ab/perl-fixes:
perl Git::LoadCPAN: emit better errors under NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS
Makefile: add NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS knob
perl: move the perl/Git/FromCPAN tree to perl/FromCPAN
perl: generalize the Git::LoadCPAN facility
perl: move CPAN loader wrappers to another namespace
perl: update our copy of Mail::Address
perl: update our ancient copy of Error.pm
git-send-email: unconditionally use Net::{SMTP,Domain}
Git.pm: hard-depend on the File::{Temp,Spec} modules
gitweb: hard-depend on the Digest::MD5 5.8 module
Git.pm: add the "use warnings" pragma
Git.pm: remove redundant "use strict" from sub-package
perl: *.pm files should not have the executable bit
Move the Git::Error and Git::Mail::Address wrappers to the
Git::LoadCPAN::Loader::* namespace, e.g. Git::LoadCPAN::Error. That
module will then either load Error from CPAN (if installed on the OS),
or use Git::FromCPAN::Error.
When I added the Error wrapper in 20d2a30f8f ("Makefile: replace
perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules", 2017-12-10) I didn't think
about how confusing it would be to have these modules sitting in the
same tree as our normal modules. Let's put these all into
Git::{Load,From}CPAN::* to clearly distinguish them from the rest.
This also makes things a bit less confusing since there was already a
Git::Error namespace ever since 8b9150e3e3 ("Git.pm: Handle failed
commands' output", 2006-06-24).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since my d48b284183 ("perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8 from
5.6.[21]", 2010-09-24), we've depended on 5.8, so there's no reason to
conditionally require File::Temp and File::Spec anymore. They were
first released with perl versions v5.6.1 and 5.00405, respectively.
This code was originally added in c14c8ceb13 ("Git.pm: Make File::Spec
and File::Temp requirement lazy", 2008-08-15), presumably to make
Git.pm work on 5.6.0.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amend Git.pm to load the "warnings" pragma like the rest of the code
in perl/ in addition to the existing "strict" pragma. This is
considered the bare minimum best practice in Perl.
Ever since this code was introduced in b1edc53d06 ("Introduce
Git.pm (v4)", 2006-06-24) it's only been using "strict", not
"warnings".
This leaves contrib/buildsystems/Generators/{QMake,VCproj}.pm and
contrib/mw-to-git/Git/Mediawiki.pm without "use warnings". Amending
those would be a sensible follow-up change, but I don't have an easy
way to test those so I'm not changing them.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In Perl the "use strict/warnings" pragmas are lexical, thus there's no
reason to do:
package Foo;
use strict;
package Bar;
use strict;
$x = 5;
To satisfy the desire that the undeclared $x variable will be spotted
at compile-time. It's enough to include the first "use strict".
This functionally changes nothing, but makes a subsequent change where
"use warnings" will be added to Git.pm less confusing and less
verbose, since as with "strict" we'll only need to do that at the top
of the file.
Changes code initially added in a6065b548f ("Git.pm: Try to support
ActiveState output pipe", 2006-06-25).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amazingly, timegm(gmtime(0)) is only 0 before 2020 because perl's
timegm deviates from GNU timegm(3) in how it handles years.
man Time::Local says
Whenever possible, use an absolute four digit year instead.
with a detailed explanation about ambiguity of 2-digit years above that.
Even though this ambiguity is error-prone with >50% of users getting it
wrong, it has been like this for 20+ years, so we just use 4-digit years
everywhere to be on the safe side.
We add some extra logic to cvsimport because it allows 2-digit year
input and interpreting an 18 as 1918 can be avoided easily and safely.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by
weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker.
* ab/simplify-perl-makefile:
perl: treat PERLLIB_EXTRA as an extra path again
perl: avoid *.pmc and fix Error.pm further
Makefile: replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules
We now use Mail::Address unconditionaly, hence parse_mailboxes is now
dead code. Remove it and its tests.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace the perl/Makefile.PL and the fallback perl/Makefile used under
NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=NoThanks with a much simpler implementation heavily
inspired by how the i18n infrastructure's build process works[1].
The reason for having the Makefile.PL in the first place is that it
was initially[2] building a perl C binding to interface with libgit,
this functionality, that was removed[3] before Git.pm ever made it to
the master branch.
We've since since started maintaining a fallback perl/Makefile, as
MakeMaker wouldn't work on some platforms[4]. That's just the tip of
the iceberg. We have the PM.stamp hack in the top-level Makefile[5] to
detect whether we need to regenerate the perl/perl.mak, which I fixed
just recently to deal with issues like the perl version changing from
under us[6].
There is absolutely no reason for why this needs to be so complex
anymore. All we're getting out of this elaborate Rube Goldberg machine
was copying perl/* to perl/blib/* as we do a string-replacement on
the *.pm files to hardcode @@LOCALEDIR@@ in the source, as well as
pod2man-ing Git.pm & friends.
So replace the whole thing with something that's pretty much a copy of
how we generate po/build/**.mo from po/*.po, just with a small sed(1)
command instead of msgfmt. As that's being done rename the files
from *.pm to *.pmc just to indicate that they're generated (see
"perldoc -f require").
While I'm at it, change the fallback for Error.pm from being something
where we'll ship our own Error.pm if one doesn't exist at build time
to one where we just use a Git::Error wrapper that'll always prefer
the system-wide Error.pm, only falling back to our own copy if it
really doesn't exist at runtime. It's now shipped as
Git::FromCPAN::Error, making it easy to add other modules to
Git::FromCPAN::* in the future if that's needed.
Functional changes:
* This will not always install into perl's idea of its global
"installsitelib". This only potentially matters for packagers that
need to expose Git.pm for non-git use, and as explained in the
INSTALL file there's a trivial workaround.
* The scripts themselves will 'use lib' the target directory, but if
INSTLIBDIR is set it overrides it. It doesn't have to be this way,
it could be set in addition to INSTLIBDIR, but my reading of [7] is
that this is the desired behavior.
* We don't build man pages for all of the perl modules as we used to,
only Git(3pm). As discussed on-list[8] that we were building
installed manpages for purely internal APIs like Git::I18N or
private-Error.pm was always a bug anyway, and all the Git::SVN::*
ones say they're internal APIs.
There are apparently external users of Git.pm, but I don't expect
there to be any of the others.
As a side-effect of these general changes the perl documentation
now only installed by install-{doc,man}, not a mere "install" as
before.
1. 5e9637c629 ("i18n: add infrastructure for translating Git with
gettext", 2011-11-18)
2. b1edc53d06 ("Introduce Git.pm (v4)", 2006-06-24)
3. 18b0fc1ce1 ("Git.pm: Kill Git.xs for now", 2006-09-23)
4. f848718a69 ("Make perl/ build procedure ActiveState friendly.",
2006-12-04)
5. ee9be06770 ("perl: detect new files in MakeMaker builds",
2012-07-27)
6. c59c4939c2 ("perl: regenerate perl.mak if perl -V changes",
2017-03-29)
7. 0386dd37b1 ("Makefile: add PERLLIB_EXTRA variable that adds to
default perl path", 2013-11-15)
8. 87bmjjv1pu.fsf@evledraar.booking.com ("Re: [PATCH] Makefile:
replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules"
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is what the other routines in Git.pm do if there's an error.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
unquote_path() does not handle quoted paths containing '\a',
even though quote.c::unquote_c_style() does, and quote.c:sq_lookup[]
tells quote.c::sq_must_quote() that '\007' must be quoted as '\a'.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move unquote_path() from git-add--interactive to Git.pm so it can be
used by other scripts. Note this is a straight copy, it does not
handle '\a'. That will be fixed in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Porcelain scripts written in Perl are getting internationalized.
* va/i18n-perl-scripts:
i18n: difftool: mark warnings for translation
i18n: send-email: mark composing message for translation
i18n: send-email: mark string with interpolation for translation
i18n: send-email: mark warnings and errors for translation
i18n: send-email: mark strings for translation
i18n: add--interactive: mark status words for translation
i18n: add--interactive: remove %patch_modes entries
i18n: add--interactive: mark edit_hunk_manually message for translation
i18n: add--interactive: i18n of help_patch_cmd
i18n: add--interactive: mark patch prompt for translation
i18n: add--interactive: mark plural strings
i18n: clean.c: match string with git-add--interactive.perl
i18n: add--interactive: mark strings with interpolation for translation
i18n: add--interactive: mark simple here-documents for translation
i18n: add--interactive: mark strings for translation
Git.pm: add subroutines for commenting lines
"git send-email" attempts to pick up valid e-mails from the
trailers, but people in real world write non-addresses there, like
"Cc: Stable <add@re.ss> # 4.8+", which broke the output depending
on the availability and vintage of Mail::Address perl module.
* mm/send-email-cc-cruft-after-address:
Git.pm: add comment pointing to t9000
t9000-addresses: update expected results after fix
parse_mailboxes: accept extra text after <...> address
"git send-email" attempts to pick up valid e-mails from the
trailers, but people in real world write non-addresses there, like
"Cc: Stable <add@re.ss> # 4.8+", which broke the output depending
on the availability and vintage of Mail::Address perl module.
* mm/send-email-cc-cruft-after-address:
Git.pm: add comment pointing to t9000
t9000-addresses: update expected results after fix
parse_mailboxes: accept extra text after <...> address
parse_mailboxes should probably eventually be completely equivalent to
Mail::Address, and if this happens we can drop the Mail::Address
dependency. Add a comment in the code reminding the current state of the
code, and point to the corresponding failing test to help future
contributors to get it right.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test introduced in this commit succeeds without the patch to Git.pm
if Mail::Address is installed, but fails otherwise because our in-house
parser does not accept any text after the email address. They succeed
both with and without Mail::Address after this commit.
Mail::Address accepts extra text and considers it as part of the name,
iff the address is surrounded with <...>. The implementation mimics
this behavior as closely as possible.
This mostly restores the behavior we had before b1c8a11 (send-email:
allow multiple emails using --cc, --to and --bcc, 2015-06-30), but we
keep the possibility to handle comma-separated lists.
Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reducing the scope of where we change the record separator ($/)
avoids bugs in calls which rely on the input record separator
further down, such as the 'chomp' usage in command_oneline.
This is necessary for a future change to git-svn, but exists in
Git.pm since it seems useful for gitweb and our other Perl
scripts, too.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Many instances of duplicate words (e.g. "the the path") and
a few typoes are fixed, originally in multiple patches.
wildmatch: fix duplicate words of "the"
t: fix duplicate words of "output"
transport-helper: fix duplicate words of "read"
Git.pm: fix duplicate words of "return"
path: fix duplicate words of "look"
pack-protocol.txt: fix duplicate words of "the"
precompose-utf8: fix typo of "sequences"
split-index: fix typo
worktree.c: fix typo
remote-ext: fix typo
utf8: fix duplicate words of "the"
git-cvsserver: fix duplicate words
Signed-off-by: Li Peng <lip@dtdream.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Windows, absolute paths never start with a slash, unless a POSIX
emulation layer is used. The latter is the case for MSYS2's Perl that
Git for Windows leverages. However, in the tests we also go through
plain `git.exe`, which does *not* leverage the POSIX emulation layer,
and therefore the paths we pass to Perl may actually be DOS-style paths
such as C:/Program Files/Git.
So let's just use Perl's own way to test whether a given path is
absolute or not instead of home-brewing our own.
This patch partially fixes t7800 and t9700 when running in Git for
Windows' SDK.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
parse_address_line had not the same behavior whether the user had
Mail::Address or not. Teach parse_address_line to behave like
Mail::Address.
When the user input is correct, this implementation behaves
exactly like Mail::Address except when there are quotes
inside the name:
"Jane Do"e <jdoe@example.com>
In this case the result of parse_address_line is:
With M::A : "Jane Do" e <jdoe@example.com>
Without : "Jane Do e" <jdoe@example.com>
When the user input is not correct, the behavior is also mostly
the same.
Unlike Mail::Address, this doesn't parse groups and recursive
commentaries.
Signed-off-by: Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should help me track down errors in git-svn more easily:
write .git/Git_XXXXXX: Bad file descriptor
at /usr/lib/perl5/SVN/Ra.pm line 623
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
When the temp_is_locked function was introduced, there was
a desire to make _temp_cache use it. Unfortunately due to the
various tests and logic flow involved changing the _temp_cache
function to use the new temp_is_locked function is problematic
as _temp_cache needs a slightly different test than is provided
by the temp_is_locked function.
This change reverts use of temp_is_locked in the _temp_cache
function and restores the original code that existed there
before the temp_is_locked function was added.
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The temp_is_locked function can be used to determine whether
or not a given name previously passed to temp_acquire is
currently locked.
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We call File::Temp's "tempfile" function as a class method, but it was
never designed to be called this way. Older versions seemed to
tolerate it, but as of File::Temp 0.23, it blows up like this:
$ git svn fetch
'tempfile' can't be called as a method at .../Git.pm line 1117.
Fix it by calling it as a regular function, just inside the File::Temp
namespace.
Signed-off-by: H. Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Closing (not redirecting to /dev/null) the standard error stream is
not a very smart thing to do. Later open may return file
descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and error reporting code may
write into them.
* tr/perl-keep-stderr-open:
t9700: do not close STDERR
perl: redirect stderr to /dev/null instead of closing
* maint:
Correct common spelling mistakes in comments and tests
kwset: fix spelling in comments
precompose-utf8: fix spelling of "want" in error message
compat/nedmalloc: fix spelling in comments
compat/regex: fix spelling and grammar in comments
obstack: fix spelling of similar
contrib/subtree: fix spelling of accidentally
git-remote-mediawiki: spelling fixes
doc: various spelling fixes
fast-export: fix argument name in error messages
Documentation: distinguish between ref and offset deltas in pack-format
i18n: make the translation of -u advice in one go
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On my system, t9100.1 triggers the following warning:
==352== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==352== at 0x57119C0: __write_nocancel (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AC1D2: _IO_file_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AC0B1: new_do_write (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AD3B4: _IO_do_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AD6FE: _IO_file_overflow@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AE3D8: _IO_default_xsputn (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56ACAA2: _IO_file_xsputn@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x5682133: buffered_vfprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x567CE9D: vfprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x5687096: fprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x4E7AC5: vreportf (usage.c:15)
==352== by 0x4E7B14: die_builtin (usage.c:38)
The actual complaint appears to be a bug in the underlying
implementation. What's interesting here is that it is apparently
_triggered_ by closing stderr, which results in (from strace)
write(2, "fatal: Needed a single revision\n", 32) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
write(2, "\0", 1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
Closing stderr is a bad idea anyway: there is a very real chance that
we print fatal error messages to some other file that just happens to
be opened on the now-free FD 2. So let's not do that.
As pointed out by Eric Wong (thanks), the initial close needs to go:
die() would again write nowhere if we close STDERR beforehand.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it
out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do.
* jc/perl-cat-blob:
Git.pm: fix cat_blob crashes on large files
Hooks the credential system to send-email.
* mn/send-email-works-with-credential:
git-send-email: use git credential to obtain password
Git.pm: add interface for git credential command
Git.pm: allow pipes to be closed prior to calling command_close_bidi_pipe
Git.pm: refactor command_close_bidi_pipe to use _cmd_close
Git.pm: fix example in command_close_bidi_pipe documentation
Git.pm: allow command_close_bidi_pipe to be called as method
perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it
out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do.
* jc/perl-cat-blob:
Git.pm: fix cat_blob crashes on large files
Add a credential() function which is an interface to the git
credential command. The code is heavily based on credential_*
functions in <contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki>.
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Read and write each 1024 byte buffer, rather than trying to buffer
the entire content of the file. We are only copying the contents to
a file descriptor and do not use it ourselves.
Previous code would crash on all files > 2 Gib, when the offset
variable became negative (perhaps below the level of perl),
resulting in a crash. On a 32 bit system, or a system with low
memory it might crash before reaching 2 GiB due to memory
exhaustion.
This code may leave a partial file behind in case of failure, where
the old code would leave a completely empty file. Neither version
verifies the correctness of the content. Calling code must take
care of verification and cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command_close_bidi_pipe() function will insist on closing both
input and output pipes returned by command_bidi_pipe(). With this
change it is possible to close one of the pipes in advance and pass
undef as an argument.
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The body of the loop in command_close_bidi_pipe sub is identical to
what _cmd_close sub does.
Instead of duplicating, refactor _cmd_close so that it accepts a
list of file handles to be closed, which makes it usable with
command_close_bidi_pipe.
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When passed a local time that was on the boundary of a DST change,
get_tz_offset returned a GMT offset that was incorrect (off by one
hour). This is because the time was converted to GMT and then back to
a time stamp via timelocal() which cannot disambiguate boundary cases
as noted in its documentation.
Modify this algorithm, using an approach suggested in
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/213871
to first convert the timestamp in question to two broken down forms
with localtime() and gmtime(), and then compute what timestamps
these two broken down forms would represent in GMT (i.e. a timezone
that does not have DST issues) by applying timegm() on them. The
difference between the resulting timestamps is the timezone offset.
This avoids the ambigious conversion and allows a correct time to be
returned on every occassion.
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function has utility outside of the SVN module for any routine
that needs the equivalent of GNU strftime's %z formatting option.
Move it to the top-level Git.pm so that non-SVN modules don't need to
import the SVN module to use it.
The rename makes the purpose of the function clearer.
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
File handle goes as the first argument when calling print on it.
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation of command_close_bidi_pipe() claims that it can
be called as a method, but it does not check whether the first
argument is $self or not assuming the latter. Using _maybe_self()
fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-svn reads usernames and other user queries from an interactive
terminal. This cause GUIs (w/o STDIN connected) to hang waiting forever
for git-svn to complete (http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/issues/detail?id=967).
This change extends the Git::prompt helper, so that it can also be used
for non password queries, and makes use of it instead of using
hand-rolled prompt-response code that only works with the interactive
terminal.
Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If GIT_ASKPASS environment variable is not set, git-svn does not try to use
SSH_ASKPASS as git-core does. This change adds a fallback to SSH_ASKPASS.
Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-svn reads passwords from an interactive terminal or by using
GIT_ASKPASS helper tool. This cause GUIs (w/o STDIN connected) to hang
waiting forever for git-svn to complete
(http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/issues/detail?id=967).
Commit 56a853b62c also tried to solve
this issue, but was incomplete as described above.
Instead of using hand-rolled prompt-response code that only works with the
interactive terminal, a reusable prompt() method is introduced in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
