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Junio C Hamano
26c816a67d Merge branch 'hw/doc-in-header'
* hw/doc-in-header:
  trace2: move doc to trace2.h
  submodule-config: move doc to submodule-config.h
  tree-walk: move doc to tree-walk.h
  trace: move doc to trace.h
  run-command: move doc to run-command.h
  parse-options: add link to doc file in parse-options.h
  credential: move doc to credential.h
  argv-array: move doc to argv-array.h
  cache: move doc to cache.h
  sigchain: move doc to sigchain.h
  pathspec: move doc to pathspec.h
  revision: move doc to revision.h
  attr: move doc to attr.h
  refs: move doc to refs.h
  remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.h
  sha1-array: move doc to sha1-array.h
  merge: move doc to ll-merge.h
  graph: move doc to graph.h and graph.c
  dir: move doc to dir.h
  diff: move doc to diff.h and diffcore.h
2019-12-16 13:08:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
56e6c16394 Merge branch 'dl/lore-is-the-archive'
Publicize lore.kernel.org mailing list archive and use URLs
pointing into it to refer to notable messages in the documentation.

* dl/lore-is-the-archive:
  doc: replace LKML link with lore.kernel.org
  RelNotes: replace Gmane with real Message-IDs
  doc: replace MARC links with lore.kernel.org
2019-12-06 15:09:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3b3d9ea6a8 Merge branch 'jk/lore-is-the-archive'
Doc update for the mailing list archiving and nntp service.

* jk/lore-is-the-archive:
  doc: replace public-inbox links with lore.kernel.org
  doc: recommend lore.kernel.org over public-inbox.org
2019-12-06 15:09:23 -08:00
Denton Liu
14b7664df8 doc: replace LKML link with lore.kernel.org
Since we're now recommending lore.kernel.org, replace LKML link
with lore.kernel.org.

Although LKML has been around for a long time, nothing lasts forever
(see Gmane). Since LKML uses opaque message identifiers, switching to
lore.kernel.org should be a strict improvement since, even if
lore.kernel.org goes down, the Message-ID will allow future readers to
look up the referenced messages on any other archive.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-04 10:26:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d3096d2ba6 Merge branch 'en/doc-typofix'
Docfix.

* en/doc-typofix:
  Fix spelling errors in no-longer-updated-from-upstream modules
  multimail: fix a few simple spelling errors
  sha1dc: fix trivial comment spelling error
  Fix spelling errors in test commands
  Fix spelling errors in messages shown to users
  Fix spelling errors in names of tests
  Fix spelling errors in comments of testcases
  Fix spelling errors in code comments
  Fix spelling errors in documentation outside of Documentation/
  Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new
2019-12-01 09:04:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3c90710c0c Merge branch 'hw/config-doc-in-header'
Follow recent push to move API docs from Documentation/ to header
files and update config.h

* hw/config-doc-in-header:
  config: move documentation to config.h
2019-12-01 09:04:32 -08:00
Jeff King
3eae30e464 doc: replace public-inbox links with lore.kernel.org
Since we're now recommending lore.kernel.org (and because the
public-inbox.org domain might eventually go away), let's update our
internal references to use it, too. That future-proofs our references,
and sets the example we want people to follow.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-30 09:12:26 -08:00
Heba Waly
6c51cb525d trace2: move doc to trace2.h
Move the functions documentation from
Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt to trace2.h as it's easier for the
developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking
for it in another doc file.

Only the functions documentation section is removed from
Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt as the file is full of
details that seemed more appropriate to be in a separate doc file
as it is, with a link to the doc file added in the trace2.h.
Also the functions doc is removed to avoid having redundandt info which
will be hard to keep syncronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
d95a77d059 submodule-config: move doc to submodule-config.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt
to submodule-config.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

The documentation of parse_submodule_config_option() is discarded as the
function was removed 2 years ago.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
bbcfa3002a tree-walk: move doc to tree-walk.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt
to tree-walk.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
f1ecbe0f53 trace: move doc to trace.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-trace.txt
to trace.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Documentation/technical/api-trace.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
4c4066d95d run-command: move doc to run-command.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
to run-command.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
f3b9055624 credential: move doc to credential.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
to credential.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Documentation/git-credential.txt and Documentation/gitcredentials.txt now link
to credential.h instead of Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt for
details about the credetials API.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
971b1f24a2 argv-array: move doc to argv-array.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
to argv-array.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
13aa9c8b70 cache: move doc to cache.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt
to cache.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
c0be43f898 sigchain: move doc to sigchain.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-sigchain.txt
to sigchain.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-sigchain.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
19ef3ddd36 pathspec: move doc to pathspec.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt
to pathspec.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-setup.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Heba Waly
301d595e72 revision: move doc to revision.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt
to revision.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Heba Waly
3a1b3415d9 attr: move doc to attr.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
to attr.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Heba Waly
126c1ccefb refs: move doc to refs.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt
to refs.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Heba Waly
d27eb356bf remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt to
remote.h and refspec.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

N.B. The doc for both push and fetch members of the remote struct aren't
moved because they are out of date, as the members were changed from arrays
of rspecs to struct refspec 2 years ago.

Also documentation/technical/api-remote.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Heba Waly
405c6b1fbc sha1-array: move doc to sha1-array.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-oid-array.txt to
sha1-array.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-oid-array.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Heba Waly
d3d7172e40 merge: move doc to ll-merge.h
Move the related documentation from Documentation/technical/api-merge.txt
to ll-merge.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Only the ll-merge related doc is removed from
documentation/technical/api-merge.txt because this information will be
redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with
the documentation in ll-merge.h.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Heba Waly
3f1480b745 graph: move doc to graph.h and graph.c
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt to
graph.h and graph.c as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

The graph library was already well documented, so few comments were added to
both graph.h and graph.c

Also documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt is removed because
the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Heba Waly
266f03eccd dir: move doc to dir.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt
to dir.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information
beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt is removed because
the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header files.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Heba Waly
13c4d7eb22 diff: move doc to diff.h and diffcore.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt to both
diff.h and diffcore.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-diff.txt is removed because the information
it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and
synchronized with the documentation in the header files.

There are three members documented in the doc file that weren't found in
the header files, assuming the doc wasn't up to date and the members
no longer exist:
touched_flags, COLOR_DIFF_WORDS and QUIET.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Elijah Newren
031fd4b93b Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-07 13:42:00 +09:00
Heba Waly
7b4fb434b4 documentation: remove empty doc files
Remove empty and redundant documentation files from the
Documentation/technical/ directory.

The empty doc files included only TODO messages with no documentation for
years. Instead an approach is being taken to keep all doc beside the code
in the relevant header files.
Having empty doc files is confusing and disappointing to anybody looking
for information, besides having the documentation in header files makes it
easier for developers to find the information they are looking for.

Some of the content which could have gone here already exists elsewhere:
- api-object-access.txt -> sha1-file.c and object.h have some details.
- api-quote.txt -> quote.h has some details.
- api-xdiff-interface.txt -> xdiff-interface.h has some details.
- api-grep.txt -> grep.h does not have enough documentation at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-25 11:18:14 +09:00
Heba Waly
6c96630cb0 config: move documentation to config.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-config.txt into
config.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information
beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file, also
documentation/technical/api-config.txt is removed because the information
it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and
syncronized with the documentation in config.h

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-24 11:14:08 +09:00
Josh Steadmon
87db61a436 trace2: write discard message to sentinel files
Add a new "discard" event type for trace2 event destinations. When the
trace2 file count check creates a sentinel file, it will include the
normal trace2 output in the sentinel, along with this new discard
event.

Writing this message into the sentinel file is useful for tracking how
often the file count check triggers in practice.

Bump up the event format version since we've added a new event type.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-05 17:53:51 +09:00
Josh Steadmon
22541013d0 docs: clarify trace2 version invariants
Make it explicit that we always want trace2 "version" events to be the
first event of any trace session. Also list the changes that would or
would not cause the EVENT format version field to be incremented.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-04 09:26:42 +09:00
Josh Steadmon
3d4548e7e2 docs: mention trace2 target-dir mode in git-config
Move the description of trace2's target-directory behavior into the
shared trace2-target-values file so that it is included in both the
git-config and api-trace2 docs. Leave the SID discussion only in
api-trace2 since it's a technical detail.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-04 09:26:42 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
9755f70fe6 Merge branch 'ds/include-exclude'
The internal code originally invented for ".gitignore" processing
got reshuffled and renamed to make it less tied to "excluding" and
stress more that it is about "matching", as it has been reused for
things like sparse checkout specification that want to check if a
path is "included".

* ds/include-exclude:
  unpack-trees: rename 'is_excluded_from_list()'
  treewide: rename 'exclude' methods to 'pattern'
  treewide: rename 'EXCL_FLAG_' to 'PATTERN_FLAG_'
  treewide: rename 'struct exclude_list' to 'struct pattern_list'
  treewide: rename 'struct exclude' to 'struct path_pattern'
2019-09-30 13:19:32 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b9ac6c59b8 Merge branch 'cc/multi-promisor'
Teach the lazy clone machinery that there can be more than one
promisor remote and consult them in order when downloading missing
objects on demand.

* cc/multi-promisor:
  Move core_partial_clone_filter_default to promisor-remote.c
  Move repository_format_partial_clone to promisor-remote.c
  Remove fetch-object.{c,h} in favor of promisor-remote.{c,h}
  remote: add promisor and partial clone config to the doc
  partial-clone: add multiple remotes in the doc
  t0410: test fetching from many promisor remotes
  builtin/fetch: remove unique promisor remote limitation
  promisor-remote: parse remote.*.partialclonefilter
  Use promisor_remote_get_direct() and has_promisor_remote()
  promisor-remote: use repository_format_partial_clone
  promisor-remote: add promisor_remote_reinit()
  promisor-remote: implement promisor_remote_get_direct()
  Add initial support for many promisor remotes
  fetch-object: make functions return an error code
  t0410: remove pipes after git commands
2019-09-18 11:50:09 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
65edd96aec treewide: rename 'exclude' methods to 'pattern'
The first consumer of pattern-matching filenames was the
.gitignore feature. In that context, storing a list of patterns
as a 'struct exclude_list'  makes sense. However, the
sparse-checkout feature then adopted these structures and methods,
but with the opposite meaning: these patterns match the files
that should be included!

It would be clearer to rename this entire library as a "pattern
matching" library, and the callers apply exclusion/inclusion
logic accordingly based on their needs.

This commit renames several methods defined in dir.h to make
more sense with the renamed 'struct exclude_list' to 'struct
pattern_list' and 'struct exclude' to 'struct path_pattern':

 * last_exclude_matching() -> last_matching_pattern()
 * parse_exclude() -> parse_path_pattern()

In addition, the word 'exclude' was replaced with 'pattern'
in the methods below:

 * add_exclude_list()
 * add_excludes_from_file_to_list()
 * add_excludes_from_file()
 * add_excludes_from_blob_to_list()
 * add_exclude()
 * clear_exclude_list()

A few methods with the word "exclude" remain. These will
be handled seperately. In particular, the method
"is_excluded()" is concretely about the .gitignore file
relative to a specific directory. This is the important
boundary between library and consumer: is_excluded() cares
about .gitignore, but is_excluded() calls
last_matching_pattern() to make that decision.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-05 14:05:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1b01cdbf2e Merge branch 'jk/tree-walk-overflow'
Codepaths to walk tree objects have been audited for integer
overflows and hardened.

* jk/tree-walk-overflow:
  tree-walk: harden make_traverse_path() length computations
  tree-walk: add a strbuf wrapper for make_traverse_path()
  tree-walk: accept a raw length for traverse_path_len()
  tree-walk: use size_t consistently
  tree-walk: drop oid from traverse_info
  setup_traverse_info(): stop copying oid
2019-08-22 12:34:10 -07:00
Mark Rushakoff
24966cd982 doc: fix repeated words
Inspired by 21416f0a07 ("restore: fix typo in docs", 2019-08-03), I ran
"git grep -E '(\b[a-zA-Z]+) \1\b' -- Documentation/" to find other cases
where words were duplicated, e.g. "the the", and in most cases removed
one of the repeated words.

There were many false positives by this grep command, including
deliberate repeated words like "really really" or valid uses of "that
that" which I left alone, of course.

I also did not correct any of the legitimate, accidentally repeated
words in old RelNotes.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-11 17:40:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
68c1ac4a0b Merge branch 'mr/doc-can-not-to-cannot'
Docfix.

* mr/doc-can-not-to-cannot:
  doc: typo: s/can not/cannot/ and s/is does/does/
2019-08-08 14:26:09 -07:00
Mark Rushakoff
6d16922798 doc: typo: s/can not/cannot/ and s/is does/does/
"Can not" suggests one has the option to not do something, whereas
"cannot" more strongly suggests something is disallowed or impossible.

Noticed "can not", mistakenly used instead of "cannot" in git help
glossary, then ran git grep 'can not' and found many other instances.
Only files in the Documentation folder were modified.

'Can not' also occurs in some source code comments and some test
assertion messages, and there is an error message and translation "can
not move directory into itself" which I may fix and submit separately
from the documentation change.

Also noticed and fixed "is does" in git help fetch, but there are no
other occurrences of that typo according to git grep.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-05 10:05:24 -07:00
Jeff King
c43ab06259 tree-walk: add a strbuf wrapper for make_traverse_path()
All but one of the callers of make_traverse_path() allocate a new heap
buffer to store the path. Let's give them an easy way to write to a
strbuf, which saves them from computing the length themselves (which is
especially tricky when they want to add to the path). It will also make
it easier for us to change the make_traverse_path() interface in a
future patch to improve its bounds-checking.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-01 13:06:52 -07:00
Jeff King
947208b725 setup_traverse_info(): stop copying oid
We assume that if setup_traverse_info() is passed a non-empty "base"
string, that string is pointing into a tree object and we can read the
object oid by skipping past the trailing NUL.

As it turns out, this is not true for either of the two calls, and we
may end up reading garbage bytes:

  1. In git-merge-tree, our base string is either empty (in which case
     we'd never run this code), or it comes from our traverse_path()
     helper. The latter overallocates a buffer by the_hash_algo->rawsz
     bytes, but then fills it with only make_traverse_path(), leaving
     those extra bytes uninitialized (but part of a legitimate heap
     buffer).

  2. In unpack_trees(), we pass o->prefix, which is some arbitrary
     string from the caller. In "git read-tree --prefix=foo", for
     instance, it will point to the command-line parameter, and we'll
     read 20 bytes past the end of the string.

Interestingly, tools like ASan do not detect (2) because the process
argv is part of a big pre-allocated buffer. So we're reading trash, but
it's trash that's probably part of the next argument, or the
environment.

You can convince it to fail by putting something like this at the
beginning of common-main.c's main() function:

  {
	int i;
	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
		argv[i] = xstrdup_or_null(argv[i]);
  }

That puts the arguments into their own heap buffers, so running:

  make SANITIZE=address test

will find problems when "read-tree --prefix" is used (e.g., in t3030).

Doubly interesting, even with the hackery above, this does not fail
prior to ea82b2a085 (tree-walk: store object_id in a separate member,
2019-01-15). That commit switched setup_traverse_info() to actually
copying the hash, rather than simply pointing to it. That pointer was
always pointing to garbage memory, but that commit started actually
dereferencing the bytes, which is what triggers ASan.

That also implies that nobody actually cares about reading these oid
bytes anyway (or at least no path covered by our tests). And manual
inspection of the code backs that up (I'll follow this patch with some
cleanups that show definitively this is the case, but they're quite
invasive, so it's worth doing this fix on its own).

So let's drop the bogus hashcpy(), along with the confusing oversizing
in merge-tree.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-31 13:30:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dea6737bb7 Merge branch 'ds/close-object-store' into maint
The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime
may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be
closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to
an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a
new instance to replace it.

* ds/close-object-store:
  packfile: rename close_all_packs to close_object_store
  packfile: close commit-graph in close_all_packs
  commit-graph: use raw_object_store when closing
  commit-graph: extract write_commit_graph_file()
  commit-graph: extract copy_oids_to_commits()
  commit-graph: extract count_distinct_commits()
  commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_all_packs()
  commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_commit_hex()
  commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_packs()
  commit-graph: create write_commit_graph_context
  commit-graph: remove Future Work section
  commit-graph: collapse parameters into flags
  commit-graph: return with errors during write
  commit-graph: fix the_repository reference
2019-07-29 12:38:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fff813c6ae Merge branch 'js/trace2-signo-typofix'
Documentation fix.

* js/trace2-signo-typofix:
  trace2: correct trace2 field name documentation
2019-07-19 11:30:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
92b1ea66b9 Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-incremental'
The commits in a repository can be described by multiple
commit-graph files now, which allows the commit-graph files to be
updated incrementally.

* ds/commit-graph-incremental:
  commit-graph: test verify across alternates
  commit-graph: normalize commit-graph filenames
  commit-graph: test --split across alternate without --split
  commit-graph: test octopus merges with --split
  commit-graph: clean up chains after flattened write
  commit-graph: verify chains with --shallow mode
  commit-graph: create options for split files
  commit-graph: expire commit-graph files
  commit-graph: allow cross-alternate chains
  commit-graph: merge commit-graph chains
  commit-graph: add --split option to builtin
  commit-graph: write commit-graph chains
  commit-graph: rearrange chunk count logic
  commit-graph: add base graphs chunk
  commit-graph: load commit-graph chains
  commit-graph: rename commit_compare to oid_compare
  commit-graph: prepare for commit-graph chains
  commit-graph: document commit-graph chains
2019-07-19 11:30:20 -07:00
Josh Steadmon
24df0d49c4 trace2: correct trace2 field name documentation
Correct the api-trace2 documentation, which lists "signal" as an
expected field for the signal event type, but which actually outputs
"signo" as the field name.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-09 16:28:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e1168940ce Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-write-refactor'
Renamed from commit-graph-format-v2 and changed scope.

* ds/commit-graph-write-refactor:
  commit-graph: extract write_commit_graph_file()
  commit-graph: extract copy_oids_to_commits()
  commit-graph: extract count_distinct_commits()
  commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_all_packs()
  commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_commit_hex()
  commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_packs()
  commit-graph: create write_commit_graph_context
  commit-graph: remove Future Work section
  commit-graph: collapse parameters into flags
  commit-graph: return with errors during write
  commit-graph: fix the_repository reference
2019-07-09 15:25:36 -07:00
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
6114a405bd trace2: correct typo in technical documentation
an apparent typo for the environment variable was included with 81567caf87
("trace2: update docs to describe system/global config settings",
2019-04-15), and was missed when renamed variables by e4b75d6a1d
("trace2: rename environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*", 2019-05-19)

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-27 10:56:54 -07:00
Christian Couder
7e154badc0 partial-clone: add multiple remotes in the doc
While at it, let's remove a reference to ODB effort as the ODB
effort has been replaced by directly enhancing partial clone
and promisor remote features.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-25 14:05:37 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
c2bc6e6ab0 commit-graph: create options for split files
The split commit-graph feature is now fully implemented, but needs
some more run-time configurability. Allow direct callers to 'git
commit-graph write --split' to specify the values used in the
merge strategy and the expire time.

Update the documentation to specify these values.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19 20:46:26 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
8d84097f96 commit-graph: expire commit-graph files
As we merge commit-graph files in a commit-graph chain, we should clean
up the files that are no longer used.

This change introduces an 'expiry_window' value to the context, which is
always zero (for now). We then check the modified time of each
graph-{hash}.graph file in the $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs folder and
unlink the files that are older than the expiry_window.

Since this is always zero, this immediately clears all unused graph
files. We will update the value to match a config setting in a future
change.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19 20:46:26 -07:00