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Junio C Hamano
e6658b9d69 Merge branch 'ks/rfc2047-one-char-at-a-time' into maint
When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,
it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in the
middle of it.

* ks/rfc2047-one-char-at-a-time:
  format-patch: RFC 2047 says multi-octet character may not be split
2013-04-03 09:25:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a9dc3b6481 Merge branch 'jk/empty-archive' into maint
"git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out
of an empty tree.  It would be more intuitive to give an empty
archive back in such a case.

* jk/empty-archive:
  archive: handle commits with an empty tree
  test-lib: factor out $GIT_UNZIP setup
2013-04-03 09:25:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9e72a56699 Merge branch 'ph/tag-force-no-warn-on-creation' into maint
"git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when
creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating).

* ph/tag-force-no-warn-on-creation:
  tag: --force does not have to warn when creating tags
2013-04-03 09:24:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
92e0d91632 Sync with 1.8.1 maintenance track
* maint-1.8.1:
  Start preparing for 1.8.1.6
  git-tag(1): we tag HEAD by default
  Fix revision walk for commits with the same dates
  t2003: work around path mangling issue on Windows
  pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait
  pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags
  use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object")
  avoid segfaults on parse_object failure
  entry: fix filter lookup
  t2003: modernize style
  name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true
2013-04-03 09:18:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c81e2c61b3 Merge branch 'kb/name-hash' into maint-1.8.1
* kb/name-hash:
  name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true
2013-04-03 08:44:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
64379806a9 Merge branch 'kk/revwalk-slop-too-many-commit-within-a-second' into maint-1.8.1
* kk/revwalk-slop-too-many-commit-within-a-second:
  Fix revision walk for commits with the same dates
2013-04-03 08:44:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
67ff3d27f6 Merge branch 'jk/checkout-attribute-lookup' into maint-1.8.1
* jk/checkout-attribute-lookup:
  t2003: work around path mangling issue on Windows
  entry: fix filter lookup
  t2003: modernize style
2013-04-03 08:43:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f1ad05f3a5 Merge branch 'jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref' into maint-1.8.1
* jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref:
  pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait
  pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags
  use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object")
  avoid segfaults on parse_object failure
2013-04-03 08:43:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8f780ca9be Merge branch 'ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap' into maint-1.8.1
* ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap:
  tests: make sure rename pretty print works
  diff: prevent pprint_rename from underrunning input
  diff: Fix rename pretty-print when suffix and prefix overlap
2013-04-03 08:37:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b76a9e1648 Merge branch 'ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap' into maint
* ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap:
  tests: make sure rename pretty print works
  diff: prevent pprint_rename from underrunning input
  diff: Fix rename pretty-print when suffix and prefix overlap
2013-04-01 09:19:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5753e1709e Merge branch 'rr/tests-dedup-test-config' into maint
* rr/tests-dedup-test-config:
  t4018,7810,7811: remove test_config() redefinition
2013-04-01 09:19:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fec274b01f Merge branch 'tb/document-status-u-tradeoff' into maint
* tb/document-status-u-tradeoff:
  status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long
  git status: document trade-offs in choosing parameters to the -u option
2013-04-01 09:19:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
41e603af58 Merge branch 'da/downcase-u-in-usage' into maint
* da/downcase-u-in-usage:
  contrib/mw-to-git/t/install-wiki.sh: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  contrib/examples/git-remote.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  tests: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  git-svn: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  Documentation/user-manual.txt: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  templates/hooks--update.sample: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  contrib/hooks/setgitperms.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  contrib/examples: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: use spaces instead of tabs
  contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: fix broken error message
  contrib/fast-import: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  contrib/credential: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  git-cvsimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  git-cvsimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  git-cvsexportcommit: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  git-archimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  git-merge-one-file: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  git-relink: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  git-svn: use a lowercase "usage:" string
  git-sh-setup: use a lowercase "usage:" string
2013-04-01 09:19:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
50734ea0af Merge branch 'we/submodule-update-prefix-output' into maint
"git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
acccumulate the prefix paths.

* we/submodule-update-prefix-output:
  submodule update: when using recursion, show full path
2013-03-26 12:44:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7d2726c393 Merge branch 'rs/zip-compresssed-size-with-export-subst' into maint
When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect
size of the file.

* rs/zip-compresssed-size-with-export-subst:
  archive-zip: fix compressed size for stored export-subst files
2013-03-26 12:43:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
307d68e275 Merge branch 'nd/branch-error-cases' into maint
"git branch" had more cases where it did not bother to check
nonsense command line parameters.

* nd/branch-error-cases:
  branch: segfault fixes and validation
2013-03-26 12:43:05 -07:00
Kacper Kornet
c19d1b4e84 Fix revision walk for commits with the same dates
Logic in still_interesting function allows to stop the commits
traversing if the oldest processed commit is not older then the
youngest commit on the list to process and the list contains only
commits marked as not interesting ones. It can be premature when dealing
with a set of coequal commits. For example git rev-list A^! --not B
provides wrong answer if all commits in the range A..B had the same
commit time and there are more then 7 of them.

To fix this problem the relevant part of the logic in still_interesting
is changed to: the walk can be stopped if the oldest processed commit is
younger then the youngest commit on the list to processed.

Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-22 16:15:48 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
8be412a723 t2003: work around path mangling issue on Windows
MSYS bash considers the part "/g" in the sed expression "s/./=/g" as an
absolute path after an assignment, and mangles it to a C:/something
string. Do not attract bash's attention by avoiding the equals sign.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-20 10:10:28 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
3f21fb99ab t4018,7810,7811: remove test_config() redefinition
test_config() is already a well-defined function in
test-lib-functions.sh.  Don't duplicate it unnecessarily.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-19 09:10:15 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
c29c46fa2e pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait
Older versions of pack-refs did not write peel lines for
refs outside of refs/tags. This meant that on reading the
pack-refs file, we might set the REF_KNOWS_PEELED flag for
such a ref, even though we do not know anything about its
peeled value.

The previous commit updated the writer to always peel, no
matter what the ref is. That means that packed-refs files
written by newer versions of git are fine to be read by both
old and new versions of git. However, we still have the
problem of reading packed-refs files written by older
versions of git, or by other implementations which have not
yet learned the same trick.

The simplest fix would be to always unset the
REF_KNOWS_PEELED flag for refs outside of refs/tags that do
not have a peel line (if it has a peel line, we know it is
valid, but we cannot assume a missing peel line means
anything). But that loses an important optimization, as
upload-pack should not need to load the object pointed to by
refs/heads/foo to determine that it is not a tag.

Instead, we add a "fully-peeled" trait to the packed-refs
file. If it is set, we know that we can trust a missing peel
line to mean that a ref cannot be peeled. Otherwise, we fall
back to assuming nothing.

[commit message and tests by Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-18 08:06:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1c71541ddd Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  t1507: Test that branchname@{upstream} is interpreted as branch
2013-03-17 15:39:43 -07:00
Kacper Kornet
617cf93182 t1507: Test that branchname@{upstream} is interpreted as branch
Syntax branchname@{upstream} should interpret its argument as a name of
a branch. Add the test to check that it doesn't try to interpret it as a
refname if the branch in question does not exist.

Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-17 15:38:23 -07:00
Jeff King
03a8eddfd1 pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags
When we pack an annotated tag ref, we write not only the
sha1 of the tag object along with the ref, but also the sha1
obtained by peeling the tag. This lets readers of the
pack-refs file know the peeled value without having to
actually load the object, speeding up upload-pack's ref
advertisement.

The writer marks a packed-refs file with peeled refs using
the "peeled" trait at the top of the file. When the reader
sees this trait, it knows that each ref is either followed
by its peeled value, or it is not an annotated tag.

However, there is a mismatch between the assumptions of the
reader and writer. The writer will only peel refs under
refs/tags, but the reader does not know this; it will assume
a ref without a peeled value must not be a tag object. Thus
an annotated tag object placed outside of the refs/tags
hierarchy will not have its peeled value printed by
upload-pack.

The simplest way to fix this is to start writing peel values
for all refs. This matches what the reader expects for both
new and old versions of git.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-17 12:52:20 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6a38ef2ced status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long
Introduce advice.statusUoption to suggest considering use of -u to
strike different trade-off when it took more than 2 seconds to
enumerate untracked/ignored files.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-16 21:44:58 -07:00
John Keeping
7297a44012 entry: fix filter lookup
When looking up the stream filter, write_entry() should be passing the
path of the file in the repository, not the path to which the content is
going to be written.  This allows the file to be correctly looked up
against the .gitattributes files in the working tree.

This change makes the streaming case match the non-streaming case which
passes ce->name to convert_to_working_tree later in the same function.

The two tests added here test the different paths through write_entry
since the CRLF filter is a streaming filter but the user-defined smudge
filter is not streamed.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-14 14:49:48 -07:00
John Keeping
013c3bb81e t2003: modernize style
- Description goes on the test_expect_* line
- Open SQ of test goes on the test_expect_* line
- Closing SQ of test goes on its own line
- Use TAB for indent

Also remove three comments that appear to relate to the development of
the patch before it was committed.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-14 14:49:32 -07:00
Phil Hord
3ae851e6fb tag: --force does not have to warn when creating tags
"git tag --force" mentions what old tag object is being replaced
when it is used to update an existing tag, but it shows the same
message when creating a new one.  Stop doing that, as it does not
add any information.

Add a test for this and also to ensure --force can replace tags at
all.

Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-13 10:35:15 -07:00
Jeff King
bd54cf17a4 archive: handle commits with an empty tree
git-archive relies on get_pathspec to convert its argv into
a list of pathspecs. When get_pathspec is given an empty
argv list, it returns a single pathspec, the empty string,
to indicate that everything matches. When we feed this to
our path_exists function, we typically see that the pathspec
turns up at least one item in the tree, and we are happy.

But when our tree is empty, we erroneously think it is
because the pathspec is too limited, when in fact it is
simply that there is nothing to be found in the tree. This
is a weird corner case, but the correct behavior is almost
certainly to produce an empty archive, not to exit with an
error.

This patch teaches git-archive to create empty archives when
there is no pathspec given (we continue to complain if a
pathspec is given, since it obviously is not matched). It
also confirms that the tar and zip writers produce sane
output in this instance.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-10 22:25:22 -07:00
Jeff King
f838ce5826 test-lib: factor out $GIT_UNZIP setup
We set up the $GIT_UNZIP variable and lazy prereq in
multiple places (and the next patch is about to add another
one). Let's factor it out to avoid repeating ourselves.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-10 20:06:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
407929cb45 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  perf: update documentation of GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT
2013-03-09 11:54:05 -08:00
Antoine Pelisse
ca70c9ea72 perf: update documentation of GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT
Currently the documentation of GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT says the default is
five while "perf-lib.sh" uses a value of three as a default.

Update the documentation so that it is consistent with the code.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-09 11:13:12 -08:00
Kirill Smelkov
6cd3c05327 format-patch: RFC 2047 says multi-octet character may not be split
Even though an earlier attempt (bafc478..41dd00bad) cleaned
up RFC 2047 encoding, pretty.c::add_rfc2047() still decides
where to split the output line by going through the input
one byte at a time, and potentially splits a character in
the middle.  A subject line may end up showing like this:

     ".... fö?? bar".   (instead of  ".... föö bar".)

if split incorrectly.

RFC 2047, section 5 (3) explicitly forbids such beaviour

    Each 'encoded-word' MUST represent an integral number of
    characters.  A multi-octet character may not be split across
    adjacent 'encoded- word's.

that means that e.g. for

    Subject: .... föö bar

encoding

    Subject: =?UTF-8?q?....=20f=C3=B6=C3=B6?=
     =?UTF-8?q?=20bar?=

is correct, and

    Subject: =?UTF-8?q?....=20f=C3=B6=C3?=      <-- NOTE ö is broken here
     =?UTF-8?q?=B6=20bar?=

is not, because "ö" character UTF-8 encoding C3 B6 is split here across
adjacent encoded words.

To fix the problem, make the loop grab one _character_ at a time and
determine its output length to see where to break the output line.  Note
that this version only knows about UTF-8, but the logic to grab one
character is abstracted out in mbs_chrlen() function to make it possible
to extend it to other encodings with the help of iconv in the future.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-09 11:11:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5d4ef1721a Merge branch 'mh/maint-ceil-absolute' into maint
* mh/maint-ceil-absolute:
  Provide a mechanism to turn off symlink resolution in ceiling paths
2013-03-07 12:49:57 -08:00
Antoine Pelisse
b174eb42d0 tests: make sure rename pretty print works
Add basic use cases and corner cases tests for
"git diff -M --summary/stat".

Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-06 13:58:56 -08:00
William Entriken
75bf5e60e8 submodule update: when using recursion, show full path
Previously when using update with recursion, only the path for the
inner-most module was printed. Now the path is printed relative to
the directory the command was started from. This now matches the
behavior of submodule foreach.

Signed-off-by: William Entriken <github.com@phor.net>
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-03 19:46:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
06d67b8766 Sync with 1.8.1.5 2013-03-01 13:17:18 -08:00
Thomas Rast
8b1bd02415 Make !pattern in .gitattributes non-fatal
Before 82dce99 (attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore,
2012-10-15), .gitattributes did not have any special treatment of a
leading '!'.  The docs, however, always said

  The rules how the pattern matches paths are the same as in
  `.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5].

By those rules, leading '!' means pattern negation.  So 82dce99
correctly determined that this kind of line makes no sense and should
be disallowed.

However, users who actually had a rule for files starting with a '!'
are in a bad position: before 82dce99 '!' matched that literal
character, so it is conceivable that users have .gitattributes with
such lines in them.  After 82dce99 the unescaped version was
disallowed in such a way that git outright refuses to run(!) most
commands in the presence of such a .gitattributes.  It therefore
becomes very hard to fix, let alone work with, such repositories.

Let's at least allow the users to fix their repos: change the fatal
error into a warning.

Reported-by: mathstuf@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-01 12:24:45 -08:00
Karsten Blees
2092678cd5 name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true
With core.ignorecase=true, name-hash.c builds a case insensitive index of
all tracked directories. Currently, the existing cache entry structures are
added multiple times to the same hashtable (with different name lengths and
hash codes). However, there's only one dir_next pointer, which gets
completely messed up in case of hash collisions. In the worst case, this
causes an endless loop if ce == ce->dir_next (see t7062).

Use a separate hashtable and separate structures for the directory index
so that each directory entry has its own next pointer. Use reference
counting to track which directory entry contains files.

There are only slight changes to the name-hash.c API:
- new free_name_hash() used by read_cache.c::discard_index()
- remove_name_hash() takes an additional index_state parameter
- index_name_exists() for a directory (trailing '/') may return a cache
  entry that has been removed (CE_UNHASHED). This is not a problem as the
  return value is only used to check if the directory exists (dir.c) or to
  normalize casing of directory names (read-cache.c).

Getting rid of cache_entry.dir_next reduces memory consumption, especially
with core.ignorecase=false (which doesn't use that member at all).

With core.ignorecase=true, building the directory index is slightly faster
as we add / check the parent directory first (instead of going through all
directory levels for each file in the index). E.g. with WebKit (~200k
files, ~7k dirs), time spent in lazy_init_name_hash is reduced from 176ms
to 130ms.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-27 23:29:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3e07d2683d Merge branch 'mh/maint-ceil-absolute'
An earlier workaround designed to help people who list logical
directories that will not match what getcwd(3) returns in the
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES had an adverse effect when it is slow to
stat and readlink a directory component of an element listed on it.

* mh/maint-ceil-absolute:
  Provide a mechanism to turn off symlink resolution in ceiling paths
2013-02-27 09:47:28 -08:00
René Scharfe
d3c1472fe3 archive-zip: fix compressed size for stored export-subst files
Currently ZIP archive entries of files with export-subst attribute are
broken if they are stored uncompressed.

We get the size of a file from sha1_object_info(), but this number is
likely wrong for files whose contents are changed due to export-subst
placeholder expansion.  We use sha1_file_to_archive() to get the
expanded file contents and size in that case.  We proceed to use that
size for the uncompressed size field (good), but the compressed size
field is set based on the size from sha1_object_info() (bad).

This matters only for uncompressed files because for deflated files
we use the correct value after compression is done.  And for files
without export-subst expansion the sizes from sha1_object_info() and
sha1_file_to_archive() are the same, so they are unaffected as well.

This patch fixes the issue by setting the compressed size based on the
uncompressed size only after we actually know the latter.

Also make use of the test file substfile1 to check for the breakage;
it was only stored verbatim so far.  For that purpose, set the
attribute export-subst and replace its contents with the expected
expansion after committing.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-27 07:38:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2a4a26b53d Sync with 'maint'
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25 08:28:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ef94636a4d Merge branch 'as/check-ignore'
"git check-ignore ." segfaulted, as a function it calls deep in its
callchain took a string in the <ptr, length> form but did not stop
when given an empty string.

* as/check-ignore:
  name-hash: allow hashing an empty string
  t0008: document test_expect_success_multi
2013-02-25 08:27:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7927f510f7 Merge branch 'sp/smart-http-content-type-check' into maint
* sp/smart-http-content-type-check:
  http_request: reset "type" strbuf before adding
  t5551: fix expected error output
  Verify Content-Type from smart HTTP servers
2013-02-25 08:03:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d49f9f178b Merge branch 'jc/combine-diff-many-parents' into maint
* jc/combine-diff-many-parents:
  t4038: add tests for "diff --cc --raw <trees>"
  combine-diff: lift 32-way limit of combined diff
2013-02-25 08:03:51 -08:00
Greg Price
4f021b34f2 Documentation: "advice" is uncountable
"Advice" is a mass noun, not a count noun; it's not ordinarily
pluralized.

Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25 07:31:28 -08:00
David Aguilar
b978403aed tests: use a lowercase "usage:" string
Adjust test commands and test suites so that their
usage strings are consistent with Git.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-24 21:30:10 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
8efb8899cf branch: segfault fixes and validation
branch_get() can return NULL (so far on detached HEAD only) but some
code paths in builtin/branch.c cannot deal with that and cause
segfaults.

While at there, make sure to bail out when the user gives 2 or more
branches with --set-upstream-to or --unset-upstream, where only the
first branch is processed and the rest silently dropped.

Reported-by: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-23 11:53:21 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
7ec30aaa5b Provide a mechanism to turn off symlink resolution in ceiling paths
Commit 1b77d83cab 'setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks
in ceiling paths' changed the setup code to resolve symlinks in the
entries in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES.  Because those entries are
compared textually to the symlink-resolved current directory, an
entry in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES that contained a symlink would have
no effect.  It was known that this could cause performance problems
if the symlink resolution *itself* touched slow filesystems, but it
was thought that such use cases would be unlikely.  The intention of
the earlier change was to deal with a case when the user has this:

	GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/home/gitster

but in reality, /home/gitster is a symbolic link to somewhere else,
e.g. /net/machine/home4/gitster. A textual comparison between the
specified value /home/gitster and the location getcwd(3) returns
would not help us, but readlink("/home/gitster") would still be
fast.

After this change was released, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
reported:

> [...] my computer has been acting so slow when I’m not connected to
> the network.  I put various network filesystem paths in
> $GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES, such as
> /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n/andersk (to avoid hitting its parents
> /afs/athena.mit.edu, /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a, and
> /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n which all live in different AFS
> volumes).  Now when I’m not connected to the network, every
> invocation of Git, including the __git_ps1 in my shell prompt, waits
> for AFS to timeout.

To allow users to work around this problem, give them a mechanism to
turn off symlink resolution in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES entries.  All
the entries that follow an empty entry will not be checked for symbolic
links and used literally in comparison.  E.g. with these:

	GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=:/foo/bar:/xyzzy or
	GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/foo/bar::/xyzzy

we will not readlink("/xyzzy") because it comes after an empty entry.

With the former (but not with the latter), "/foo/bar" comes after an
empty entry, and we will not readlink it, either.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-22 11:37:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c19387e799 name-hash: allow hashing an empty string
Usually we do not pass an empty string to the function hash_name()
because we almost always ask for hash values for a path that is a
candidate to be added to the index. However, check-ignore (and most
likely check-attr, but I didn't check) apparently has a callchain
to ask the hash value for an empty path when it was given a "." from
the top-level directory to ask "Is the path . excluded by default?"

Make sure that hash_name() does not overrun the end of the given
pathname even when it is empty.

Remove a sweep-the-issue-under-the-rug conditional in check-ignore
that avoided to pass an empty string to the callchain while at it.
It is a valid question to ask for check-ignore if the top-level is
set to be ignored by default, even though the answer is most likely
no, if only because there is currently no way to specify such an
entry in the .gitignore file. But it is an unusual thing to ask and
it is not worth optimizing for it by special casing at the top level
of the call chain.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19 14:00:12 -08:00
Adam Spiers
6866654627 t0008: document test_expect_success_multi
test_expect_success_multi() helper function warrants some explanation,
since at first sight it may seem like generic test framework plumbing,
but is in fact specific to testing check-ignore, and allows more
thorough testing of the various output formats without significantly
increase the size of t0008.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19 09:37:39 -08:00