The remote-config code wants to look at HEAD to mark the
current branch specially. But if we are not in a repository
(e.g., running "git archive --remote"), this makes no sense;
there is no HEAD to look at, and we have no current branch.
This doesn't really cause any bugs in practice (if you are
not in a repo, you probably don't have a .git/HEAD file),
but we should be more careful about triggering the refs code
at all in a non-repo. As we grow new ref backends, we would
not even know which backend to use.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().
* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
convert manual allocations to argv_array
argv-array: add detach function
add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
...
The internal API to interact with "remote.*" configuration
variables has been streamlined.
* tg/git-remote:
remote: use remote_is_configured() for add and rename
remote: actually check if remote exits
remote: simplify remote_is_configured()
remote: use parse_config_key
If our size computation overflows size_t, we may allocate a
much smaller buffer than we expected and overflow it. It's
probably impossible to trigger an overflow in most of these
sites in practice, but it is easy enough convert their
additions and multiplications into overflow-checking
variants. This may be fixing real bugs, and it makes
auditing the code easier.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using FLEX_ARRAY macros reduces the amount of manual
computation size we have to do. It also ensures we don't
overflow size_t, and it makes sure we write the same number
of bytes that we allocated.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The remote_is_configured() function allows checking whether a remote
exists or not. The function however only works if remote_get() wasn't
called before calling it. In addition, it only checks the configuration
for remotes, but not remotes or branches files.
Make use of the origin member of struct remote instead, which indicates
where the remote comes from. It will be set to some value if the remote
is configured in any file in the repository, but is initialized to 0 if
the remote is only created in make_remote().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
95b567c7 ("use skip_prefix to avoid repeating strings") transformed
calls using starts_with() and then skipping the length of the prefix to
skip_prefix() calls. In remote.c there are a few calls like:
if (starts_with(foo, "bar"))
foo += 3
These calls weren't touched by the aformentioned commit, but can be
replaced by calls to parse_config_key(), to simplify the code and
clarify the intentions. Do that.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git push --force-with-lease" has been taught to report if the push
needed to force (or fast-forwarded).
* aw/push-force-with-lease-reporting:
push: fix ref status reporting for --force-with-lease
New http.proxyAuthMethod configuration variable can be used to
specify what authentication method to use, as a way to work around
proxies that do not give error response expected by libcurl when
CURLAUTH_ANY is used. Also, the codepath for proxy authentication
has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication
material in user's keyrings.
* kf/http-proxy-auth-methods:
http: use credential API to handle proxy authentication
http: allow selection of proxy authentication method
The --force--with-lease push option leads to less
detailed status information than --force. In particular,
the output indicates that a reference was fast-forwarded,
even when it was force-updated.
Modify the --force-with-lease ref status logic to leverage
the --force ref status logic when the "lease" conditions
are met.
Also, enhance tests to validate output status reporting.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Wheeler <awheeler@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
CURLAUTH_ANY does not work with proxies which answer unauthenticated requests
with a 307 redirect to an error page instead of a 407 listing supported
authentication methods. Therefore, allow the authentication method to be set
using the environment variable GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD or configuration
variables http.proxyAuthmethod and remote.<name>.proxyAuthmethod (in analogy
to http.proxy and remote.<name>.proxy).
The following values are supported:
* anyauth (default)
* basic
* digest
* negotiate
* ntlm
Signed-off-by: Knut Franke <k.franke@science-computing.de>
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These files can be edited with a DOS editor, leaving CR at the end
of the line if read with strbuf_getline().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The strbuf_getline() interface allows a byte other than LF or NUL as
the line terminator, but this is only because I wrote these
codepaths anticipating that there might be a value other than NUL
and LF that could be useful when I introduced line_termination long
time ago. No useful caller that uses other value has emerged.
By now, it is clear that the interface is overly broad without a
good reason. Many codepaths have hardcoded preference to read
either LF terminated or NUL terminated records from their input, and
then call strbuf_getline() with LF or NUL as the third parameter.
This step introduces two thin wrappers around strbuf_getline(),
namely, strbuf_getline_lf() and strbuf_getline_nul(), and
mechanically rewrites these call sites to call either one of
them. The changes contained in this patch are:
* introduction of these two functions in strbuf.[ch]
* mechanical conversion of all callers to strbuf_getline() with
either '\n' or '\0' as the third parameter to instead call the
respective thin wrapper.
After this step, output from "git grep 'strbuf_getline('" would
become a lot smaller. An interim goal of this series is to make
this an empty set, so that we can have strbuf_getline_crlf() take
over the shorter name strbuf_getline().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert several unsigned char arrays to use struct object_id instead,
and change hard-coded 40-based constants to use GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
struct object is one of the major data structures dealing with object
IDs. Convert it to use struct object_id instead of an unsigned char
array. Convert get_object_hash to refer to the new member as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Convert ref_newer and its caller to use struct object_id instead of
unsigned char *.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Use struct object_id in three fields in struct ref and convert all the
necessary places that use it.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Instead of open-coding the function pop_commit() just call it. This
makes the intent clearer and reduces code size.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The earlier rewrite f28e3ab2 (read_branches_file: simplify string handling)
of read_branches_file() lost an fclose() call. Put it back.
As on Windows files that are open cannot be removed, the leak manifests in
a failure of 'git remote rename origin origin' when the remote's URL is
specified in .git/branches/origin, because by the time that the command
attempts to remove this file, it is still open.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to dropping the magic number for the fixed-size
argv, we can also drop a fixed-length buffer and some
strcpy's into it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The main motivation for this cleanup is to switch our
line-reading to a strbuf, which removes the use of a
fixed-size buffer (which limited the size of remote URLs).
Since we have the strbuf, we can make use of strbuf_rtrim().
While we're here, we can also simplify the parsing of each
line. First, we can use skip_prefix() to avoid some magic
numbers.
But second, we can avoid splitting the parsing and actions
for each line into two stages. Right now we figure out which
type of line we have, set an int to a magic number,
skip any intermediate whitespace, and then act on
the resulting value based on the magic number.
Instead, let's factor the whitespace skipping into a
function. That lets us avoid the magic numbers and keep the
actions close to the parsing.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function does a lot of manual string handling, and has
some unnecessary limits. This patch cleans up a number of
things:
1. Drop the arbitrary 1000-byte limit on the size of the
remote name (we do not have such a limit in any of the
other remote-reading mechanisms).
2. Replace fgets into a fixed-size buffer with a strbuf,
eliminating any limits on the length of the URL.
3. Replace manual whitespace handling with strbuf_trim
(since we now have a strbuf). This also gets rid
of a call to strcpy, and the confusing reuse of the "p"
pointer for multiple purposes.
4. We currently build up the refspecs over multiple strbuf
calls. We do this to handle the fact that the URL "frag"
may not be present. But rather than have multiple
conditionals, let's just default "frag" to "master".
This lets us format the refspecs with a single xstrfmt.
It's shorter, and easier to see what the final string
looks like.
We also update the misleading comment in this area (the
local branch is named after the remote name, not after
the branch name on the remote side).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's a common pattern to do:
foo = xmalloc(strlen(one) + strlen(two) + 1 + 1);
sprintf(foo, "%s %s", one, two);
(or possibly some variant with strcpy()s or a more
complicated length computation). We can switch these to use
xstrfmt, which is shorter, involves less error-prone manual
computation, and removes many sprintf and strcpy calls which
make it harder to audit the code for real buffer overflows.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects
not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id".
* bc/object-id: (56 commits)
struct ref_lock: convert old_sha1 member to object_id
warn_if_dangling_symref(): convert local variable "junk" to object_id
each_ref_fn_adapter(): remove adapter
rev_list_insert_ref(): remove unneeded arguments
rev_list_insert_ref_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
mark_complete(): remove unneeded arguments
mark_complete_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
clear_marks(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
mark_complete(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
send_ref(): convert local variable "peeled" to object_id
upload-pack: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
find_symref(): convert local variable "unused" to object_id
find_symref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
write_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
write_refs_to_temp_dir(): convert local variable sha1 to object_id
submodule: rewrite to take an object_id argument
shallow: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
handle_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
add_info_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
handle_one_reflog(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
...
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change typedef each_ref_fn to take a "const struct object_id *oid"
parameter instead of "const unsigned char *sha1".
To aid this transition, implement an adapter that can be used to wrap
old-style functions matching the old typedef, which is now called
"each_ref_sha1_fn"), and make such functions callable via the new
interface. This requires the old function and its cb_data to be
wrapped in a "struct each_ref_fn_sha1_adapter", and that object to be
used as the cb_data for an adapter function, each_ref_fn_adapter().
This is an enormous diff, but most of it consists of simple,
mechanical changes to the sites that call any of the "for_each_ref"
family of functions. Subsequent to this change, the call sites can be
rewritten one by one to use the new interface.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a triangular workflow, the place you pull from and the
place you push to may be different. As we have
branch_get_upstream for the former, this patch adds
branch_get_push for the latter (and as the former implements
@{upstream}, so will this implement @{push} in a future
patch).
Note that the memory-handling for the return value bears
some explanation. Some code paths require allocating a new
string, and some let us return an existing string. We should
provide a consistent interface to the caller, so it knows
whether to free the result or not.
We could do so by xstrdup-ing any existing strings, and
having the caller always free. But that makes us
inconsistent with branch_get_upstream, so we would prefer to
simply take ownership of the resulting string. We do so by
storing it inside the "struct branch", just as we do with
the upstream refname (in that case we compute it when the
branch is created, but there's no reason not to just fill
it in lazily in this case).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After calling stat_tracking_info, callers often want to
print the name of the upstream branch (in addition to the
tracking count). To do this, they have to access
branch->merge->dst[0] themselves. This is not wrong, as the
return value from stat_tracking_info tells us whether we
have an upstream branch or not. But it is a bit leaky, as we
make an assumption about how it calculated the upstream
name.
Instead, let's add an out-parameter that lets the caller
know the upstream name we found.
As a bonus, we can get rid of the unusual tri-state return
from the function. We no longer need to use it to
differentiate between "no tracking config" and "tracking ref
does not exist" (since you can check the upstream_name for
that), so we can just use the usual 0/-1 convention for
success/error.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error-diagnosis logic in branch_get_upstream was copied
straight from sha1_name.c in the previous commit. However,
because we check all error cases and upfront and then later
diagnose them, the logic is a bit tangled. In particular:
- if branch->merge[0] is NULL, we may end up dereferencing
it for an error message (in practice, it should never be
NULL, so this is probably not a triggerable bug).
- We may enter the code path because branch->merge[0]->dst
is NULL, but we then start our error diagnosis by
checking whether our local branch exists. But that is
only relevant to diagnosing missing merge config, not a
missing tracking ref; our diagnosis may hide the real
problem.
Instead, let's just use a sequence of "if" blocks to check
for each error type, diagnose it, and return NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the previous commit introduced the branch_get_upstream
helper, there was one call-site that could not be converted:
the one in sha1_name.c, which gives detailed error messages
for each possible failure.
Let's teach the helper to optionally report these specific
errors. This lets us convert another callsite, and means we
can use the helper in other locations that want to give the
same error messages.
The logic and error messages come straight from sha1_name.c,
with the exception that we start each error with a lowercase
letter, as is our usual style (note that a few tests need
updated as a result).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All of the information needed to find the @{upstream} of a
branch is included in the branch struct, but callers have to
navigate a series of possible-NULL values to get there.
Let's wrap that logic up in an easy-to-read helper.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before the previous commit, we had to make sure that
read_config() was called before entering remote_get_1,
because we needed to pass pushremote_name by value. But now
that we pass a function, we can let remote_get_1 handle
loading the config itself, turning our wrappers into true
one-liners.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When remote.c loads its config, it records the
branch.*.pushremote for the current branch along with the
global remote.pushDefault value, and then binds them into a
single value: the default push for the current branch. We
then pass this value (which may be NULL) to remote_get_1
when looking up a remote for push.
This has a few downsides:
1. It's confusing. The early-binding of the "current
value" led to bugs like the one fixed by 98b406f
(remote: handle pushremote config in any order,
2014-02-24). And the fact that pushremotes fall back to
ordinary remotes is not explicit at all; it happens
because remote_get_1 cannot tell the difference between
"we are not asking for the push remote" and "there is
no push remote configured".
2. It throws away intermediate data. After read_config()
finishes, we have no idea what the value of
remote.pushDefault was, because the string has been
overwritten by the current branch's
branch.*.pushremote.
3. It doesn't record other data. We don't note the
branch.*.pushremote value for anything but the current
branch.
Let's make this more like the fetch-remote config. We'll
record the pushremote for each branch, and then explicitly
compute the correct remote for the current branch at the
time of reading.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We'll want to use this logic as a fallback when looking up
the pushremote, so let's pull it out into its own function.
We don't technically need to make this available outside of
remote.c, but doing so will provide a consistent API with
pushremote_for_branch, which we will add later.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we create each branch struct, we fill in the
"remote_name" field from the config, and then fill in the
actual "remote" field (with a "struct remote") based on that
name. However, it turns out that nobody really cares about
the latter field. The only two sites that access it at all
are:
1. git-merge, which uses it to notice when the branch does
not have a remote defined. But we can easily replace this
with looking at remote_name instead.
2. remote.c itself, when setting up the @{upstream} merge
config. But we don't need to save the "remote" in the
"struct branch" for that; we can just look it up for
the duration of the operation.
So there is no need to have both fields; they are redundant
with each other (the struct remote contains the name, or you
can look up the struct from the name). It would be nice to
simplify this, especially as we are going to add matching
pushremote config in a future patch (and it would be nice to
keep them consistent).
So which one do we keep and which one do we get rid of?
If we had a lot of callers accessing the struct, it would be
more efficient to keep it (since you have to do a lookup to
go from the name to the struct, but not vice versa). But we
don't have a lot of callers; we have exactly one, so
efficiency doesn't matter. We can decide this based on
simplicity and readability.
And the meaning of the struct value is somewhat unclear. Is
it always the remote matching remote_name? If remote_name is
NULL (i.e., no per-branch config), does the struct fall back
to the "origin" remote, or is it also NULL? These questions
will get even more tricky with pushremotes, whose fallback
behavior is more complicated. So let's just store the name,
which pretty clearly represents the branch.*.remote config.
Any lookup or fallback behavior can then be implemented in
helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we call branch_get() to lookup or create a "struct
branch", we make sure the "merge" field is filled in so that
callers can access it. But the conditions under which we do
so are a little confusing, and can lead to two funny
situations:
1. If there's no branch.*.remote config, we cannot provide
branch->merge (because it is really just an application
of branch.*.merge to our remote's refspecs). But
branch->merge_nr may be non-zero, leading callers to be
believe they can access branch->merge (e.g., in
branch_merge_matches and elsewhere).
It doesn't look like this can cause a segfault in
practice, as most code paths dealing with merge config
will bail early if there is no remote defined. But it's
a bit of a dangerous construct.
We can fix this by setting merge_nr to "0" explicitly
when we realize that we have no merge config. Note that
merge_nr also counts the "merge_name" fields (which we
_do_ have; that's how merge_nr got incremented), so we
will "lose" access to them, in the sense that we forget
how many we had. But no callers actually care; we use
merge_name only while iteratively reading the config,
and then convert it to the final "merge" form the first
time somebody calls branch_get().
2. We set up the "merge" field every time branch_get is
called, even if it has already been done. This leaks
memory.
It's not a big deal in practice, since most code paths
will access only one branch, or perhaps each branch
only one time. But if you want to be pathological, you
can leak arbitrary memory with:
yes @{upstream} | head -1000 | git rev-list --stdin
We can fix this by skipping setup when branch->merge is
already non-NULL.
In addition to those two fixes, this patch pushes the "do we
need to setup merge?" logic down into set_merge, where it is
a bit easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we read the remote config from disk, we update a
default_remote_name variable if we see branch.*.remote
config for the current branch. This isn't wrong, or even all
that complicated, but it is a bit simpler (because it
reduces our overall state) to just lazily compute the
default when we need it.
The ulterior motive here is that the push config uses a
similar structure, and _is_ much more complicated as a
result. That will be simplified in a future patch, and it's
more readable if the logic for remotes and push-remotes
matches.
Note that we also used default_remote_name as a signal that
the remote config has been loaded; after this patch, we now
use an explicit flag.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark file-local symbols as "static", and drop functions that nobody
uses.
* jc/unused-symbols:
shallow.c: make check_shallow_file_for_update() static
remote.c: make clear_cas_option() static
urlmatch.c: make match_urls() static
revision.c: make save_parents() and free_saved_parents() static
line-log.c: make line_log_data_init() static
pack-bitmap.c: make pack_bitmap_filename() static
prompt.c: remove git_getpass() nobody uses
http.c: make finish_active_slot() and handle_curl_result() static
"git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it
tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD".
* jk/blame-commit-label:
blame.c: fix garbled error message
use xstrdup_or_null to replace ternary conditionals
builtin/commit.c: use xstrdup_or_null instead of envdup
builtin/apply.c: use xstrdup_or_null instead of null_strdup
git-compat-util: add xstrdup_or_null helper
This replaces "x ? xstrdup(x) : NULL" with xstrdup_or_null(x).
The change is fairly mechanical, with the exception of
resolve_refdup, which can eliminate a temporary variable.
There are still a few hits grepping for "?.*xstrdup", but
these are of slightly different forms and cannot be
converted (e.g., "x ? xstrdup(x->foo) : NULL").
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The report from "git checkout" on a branch that builds on another
local branch by setting its branch.*.merge to branch name (not a
full refname) incorrectly said that the upstream is gone.
* jc/checkout-local-track-report:
checkout: report upstream correctly even with loosely defined branch.*.merge
The new name is more consistent with the names of other
string_list-related functions.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
resolve_ref_unsafe takes a boolean argument for reading (a nonexistent ref
resolves successfully for writing but not for reading). Change this to be
a flags field instead, and pass the new constant RESOLVE_REF_READING when
we want this behaviour.
While at it, swap two of the arguments in the function to put output
arguments at the end. As a nice side effect, this ensures that we can
catch callers that were unaware of the new API so they can be audited.
Give the wrapper functions resolve_refdup and read_ref_full the same
treatment for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When checking out a branch that is set to build on top of another
branch (often, a remote-tracking branch), "git checkout" reports how
your work relates to the other branch, e.g.
Your branch is behind 'origin/master', and can be fast-forwarded.
Back when this feature was introduced, this was only done for
branches that build on remote-tracking branches, but 5e6e2b48 (Make
local branches behave like remote branches when --tracked,
2009-04-01) added support to give the same report for branches that
build on other local branches (i.e. branches whose branch.*.remote
variables are set to '.'). Unlike the support for the branches
building on remote-tracking branches, however, this did not take
into account the fact that branch.*.merge configuration is allowed
to record a shortened branch name.
When branch.*.merge is set to 'master' (not 'refs/heads/master'),
i.e. "my branch builds on the local 'master' branch", this caused
"git checkout" to report:
Your branch is based on 'master', but the upstream is gone.
The upstream is our repository and is definitely not gone, so this
output is nonsense.
The fix is fairly obvious; just like the branch name is DWIMed when
"git pull" merges from the 'master' branch without complaint on such
a branch, the name of the branch the current branch builds upon
needs to be DWIMed the same way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the code simpler and shorter by avoiding repetitive use of
string length variables and leaving memory allocation to strbuf
functions.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even the documentation tells us:
You should check if it returns any error (non-zero return
code) and if it does not, you can start using get_revision()
to do the iteration.
In preparation for this commit, I grepped all occurrences of
prepare_revision_walk and added error messages, when there were none.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
