Clarify that "the sentence after <area>: prefix does not begin with
a capital letter" rule applies only to the commit title.
* jc/use-of-uc-in-log-messages:
SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body
"git multi-pack-index repack/expire" used to repack unreachable
cruft into a new pack, which have been corrected.
cf. <63a1c3d4-eff3-af10-4263-058c88e74594@github.com>
* tb/midx-repack-ignore-cruft-packs:
midx.c: avoid cruft packs with non-zero `repack --batch-size`
midx.c: remove unnecessary loop condition
midx.c: replace `xcalloc()` with `CALLOC_ARRAY()`
midx.c: avoid cruft packs with `repack --batch-size=0`
midx.c: prevent `expire` from removing the cruft pack
Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt: clarify expire behavior
Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt: fix typo
Documentation on various Boolean GIT_* environment variables have
been clarified.
* jc/environ-docs:
environ: GIT_INDEX_VERSION affects not just a new repository
environ: simplify description of GIT_INDEX_FILE
environ: GIT_FLUSH should be made a usual Boolean
environ: explain Boolean environment variables
environ: document GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY
Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid
in C99.
* ab/coding-guidelines-c99:
CodingGuidelines: recommend against unportable C99 struct syntax
CodingGuidelines: mention C99 features we can't use
CodingGuidelines: allow declaring variables in for loops
CodingGuidelines: mention dynamic C99 initializer elements
CodingGuidelines: update for C99
Per 33665d98e6 (reftable: make assignments portable to AIX xlc
v12.01, 2022-03-28) forms like ".a.b = *c" can be replaced by using
".a = { .b = *c }" instead.
We'll probably allow these sooner than later, but since the workaround
is trivial let's note it among the C99 features we'd like to hold off
on for now.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The C99 section of the CodingGuidelines is a good overview of what we
can use, but is sorely lacking in what we can't use. Something that
comes up occasionally is the portability of %z.
Per [1] we couldn't use it for the longest time due to MSVC not
supporting it, but nowadays by requiring C99 we rely on the MSVC
version that does, but we can't use it yet because a C library that
MinGW uses doesn't support it.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/a67e0fd8-4a14-16c9-9b57-3430440ef93c@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 44ba10d671 (revision: use C99 declaration of variable in for()
loop, 2021-11-14) released with v2.35.0 we've had a variable declared
with in a for loop.
Since then we've had inadvertent follow-ups to that with at least
cb2607759e (merge-ort: store more specific conflict information,
2022-06-18) released with v2.38.0.
As November 2022 is within the window of this upcoming release,
let's update the guideline to allow this. We can have the promised
"revisit" discussion while this patch cooks, and drop it if it turns
out that it is still premature, which is not expected to happen at
this moment.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first use of variables in initializer elements appears to have
been 2b6854c863 (Cleanup variables in cat-file, 2007-04-21) released
with v1.5.2.
Some of those caused portability issues, and e.g. that "cat-file" use
was changed in 66dbfd55e3 (Rewrite dynamic structure initializations
to runtime assignment, 2010-05-14) which went out with v1.7.2.
But curiously 66dbfd55e3 missed some of them, e.g. an archive.c use
added in d5f53d6d6f (archive: complain about path specs that don't
match anything, 2009-12-12), and another one in merge-index.c (later
builtin/merge-index.c) in 0077138cd9 (Simplify some instances of
run_command() by using run_command_v_opt()., 2009-06-08).
As far as I can tell there's been no point since 2b6854c863 in 2007
where a compiler that didn't support this has been able to compile
git. Presumably 66dbfd55e3 was an attempt to make headway with wider
portability that ultimately wasn't completed.
In any case, we are thoroughly reliant on this syntax at this point,
so let's update the guidelines, see
https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqy1tunjgp.fsf@gitster.g/ for the
initial discussion.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 7bc341e21b (git-compat-util: add a test balloon for C99
support, 2021-12-01) we've had a hard dependency on C99, but the prose
in CodingGuidelines was written under the assumption that we were
using C89 with a few C99 features.
As the updated prose notes we'd still like to hold off on novel C99
features, but let's make it clear that we target that C version, and
then enumerate new C99 features that are safe to use.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the description of the summary section to clarify that the
"do not capitalize" rule applies only the word after the "<area>:"
prefix of the title and nowhere else. This hopefully will prevent
folks from writing their proposed log message in all lowercase.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two documentation issues exist in the technical docs for the bundle URI
feature.
First, there is an extraneous "the" across a linebreak, making the
nonsensical phrase "the bundle the list" which should just be "the
bundle list".
Secondly, the asciidoc update treats the string "`have`s" as starting a
"<code>" block, but the second tick is interpreted as an apostrophe
instead of a closing "</code>" tag. This causes entire sentences to be
formatted as code until the next one comes along. Simply adding a space
here does not work properly as the rendered HTML keeps that space.
Instead, restructure the sentence slightly to avoid using a plural,
allowing the HTML to render correctly.
Reported-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier patch discussed and fixed a scenario where Git could be used
as a vector to exfiltrate sensitive data through a Docker container when
a potential victim clones a suspicious repository with local submodules
that contain symlinks.
That security hole has since been plugged, but a similar one still
exists. Instead of convincing a would-be victim to clone an embedded
submodule via the "file" protocol, an attacker could convince an
individual to clone a repository that has a submodule pointing to a
valid path on the victim's filesystem.
For example, if an individual (with username "foo") has their home
directory ("/home/foo") stored as a Git repository, then an attacker
could exfiltrate data by convincing a victim to clone a malicious
repository containing a submodule pointing at "/home/foo/.git" with
`--recurse-submodules`. Doing so would expose any sensitive contents in
stored in "/home/foo" tracked in Git.
For systems (such as Docker) that consider everything outside of the
immediate top-level working directory containing a Dockerfile as
inaccessible to the container (with the exception of volume mounts, and
so on), this is a violation of trust by exposing unexpected contents in
the working copy.
To mitigate the likelihood of this kind of attack, adjust the "file://"
protocol's default policy to be "user" to prevent commands that execute
without user input (including recursive submodule initialization) from
taking place by default.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
We attribute each documentation text file to a man section by finding a
line in the file that looks like "gitfoo(<digit>)". Commit cc75e556a9
("scalar: add to 'git help -a' command list", 2022-09-02) updated this
logic to look not only for "gitfoo" but also "scalarfoo". In doing so,
it forgot to account for the fact that after the updated regex has found
a match, the man section is no longer to be found in `$1` but now lives
in `$2`.
This makes our git(1) manpage look as follows:
Main porcelain commands
git-add(git)
Add file contents to the index.
[...]
gitk(git)
The Git repository browser.
scalar(scalar)
A tool for managing large Git repositories.
Restore the man sections by not capturing the (git|scalar) part of the
match into `$1`.
As noted by Ævar [1], we could even match any "foo" rather than just
"gitfoo" and "scalarfoo", but that's a larger change. For now, just fix
the regression in cc75e556a9.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/220923.86wn9u4joo.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/#t
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Used GNU "aspell check <filename>" to review various technical
documentation files with the default aspell dictionary. Ignored
false-positives between american and british english.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Used GNU "aspell check <filename>" to review various documentation
files with the default aspell dictionary. Ignored false-positives
between american and british english.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `expire` sub-command unlinks any packs that are (a) contained in the
MIDX, but (b) have no objects referenced by the MIDX.
This sub-command ignores `.keep` packs, which remain on-disk even if
they have no objects referenced by the MIDX. Cruft packs, however,
aren't given the same treatment: if none of the objects contained in the
cruft pack are selected from the cruft pack by the MIDX, then the cruft
pack is eligible to be expired.
This is less than desireable, since the cruft pack has important
metadata about the individual object mtimes, which is useful to
determine how quickly an object should age out of the repository when
pruning.
Ordinarily, we wouldn't expect the contents of a cruft pack to
duplicated across non-cruft packs (and we'd expect to see the MIDX
select all cruft objects from other sources even less often). But
nonetheless, it is still possible to trick the `expire` sub-command into
removing the `.mtimes` file in this circumstance.
Teach the `expire` sub-command to ignore cruft packs in the same manner
as it does `.keep` packs, in order to keep their metadata around, even
when they are unreferenced by the MIDX.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `expire` sub-command of `git multi-pack-index` will never expire
`.keep` packs, regardless of whether or not any of their objects were
selected in the MIDX.
This has always been the case since 19575c7c8e (multi-pack-index:
implement 'expire' subcommand, 2019-06-10), which came after cff9711616
(multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand, 2019-06-10), when
this documentation was originally written.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the extra space character between "tracked" and "by", which dates
back to when this paragraph was originally written in cff9711616
(multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand, 2019-06-10).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a reviewing guidelines document including advice and common terminology
used in Git mailing list reviews. The document is included in the
'TECH_DOCS' list in order to include it in Git's published documentation.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hoist the remainder of "scalar" out of contrib/ to the main part of
the codebase.
* vd/scalar-to-main:
Documentation/technical: include Scalar technical doc
t/perf: add 'GIT_PERF_USE_SCALAR' run option
t/perf: add Scalar performance tests
scalar-clone: add test coverage
scalar: add to 'git help -a' command list
scalar: implement the `help` subcommand
git help: special-case `scalar`
scalar: include in standard Git build & installation
scalar: fix command documentation section header
