On Unix (and Linux), files and directories whose names start with a dot
are usually not shown by default. This convention is used by Git: the
.git/ directory should be left alone by regular users, and only accessed
through Git itself.
On Windows, no such convention exists. Instead, there is an explicit flag
to mark files or directories as hidden.
In the early days, Git for Windows did not mark the .git/ directory (or
for that matter, any file or directory whose name starts with a dot)
hidden. This lead to quite a bit of confusion, and even loss of data.
Consequently, Git for Windows introduced the core.hideDotFiles setting,
with three possible values: true, false, and dotGitOnly, defaulting to
marking only the .git/ directory as hidden.
The rationale: users do not need to access .git/ directly, and indeed (as
was demonstrated) should not really see that directory, either. However,
not all dot files should be hidden by default, as e.g. Eclipse does not
show them (and the user would therefore be unable to see, say, a
.gitattributes file).
In over five years since the last attempt to bring this patch into core
Git, a slightly buggy version of this patch has served Git for Windows'
users well: no single report indicated problems with the hidden .git/
directory, and the stream of problems caused by the previously non-hidden
.git/ directory simply stopped. The bugs have been fixed during the
process of getting this patch upstream.
Note that there is a funny quirk we have to pay attention to when
creating hidden files: we use Win32's _wopen() function which
transmogrifies its arguments and hands off to Win32's CreateFile()
function. That latter function errors out with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED (the
equivalent of EACCES) when the equivalent of the O_CREAT flag was passed
and the file attributes (including the hidden flag) do not match an
existing file's. And _wopen() accepts no parameter that would be
transmogrified into said hidden flag. Therefore, we simply try again
without O_CREAT.
A slightly different method is required for our fopen()/freopen()
function as we cannot even *remove* the implicit O_CREAT flag.
Therefore, we briefly mark existing files as unhidden when opening them
via fopen()/freopen().
The ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED error can also be triggered by opening a file
that is marked as a system file (which is unlikely to be tracked in
Git), and by trying to create a file that has *just* been deleted and is
awaiting the last open handles to be released (which would be handled
better by the "Try again?" logic, a story for a different patch series,
though). In both cases, it does not matter much if we try again without
the O_CREAT flag, read: it does not hurt, either.
For details how ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED can be triggered, see
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363858
Original-patch-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Initial-Test-By: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Noticed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-2.5:
Git 2.5.5
Git 2.4.11
list-objects: pass full pathname to callbacks
list-objects: drop name_path entirely
list-objects: convert name_path to a strbuf
show_object_with_name: simplify by using path_name()
http-push: stop using name_path
tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
add helpers for detecting size_t overflow
* maint-2.4:
Git 2.4.11
list-objects: pass full pathname to callbacks
list-objects: drop name_path entirely
list-objects: convert name_path to a strbuf
show_object_with_name: simplify by using path_name()
http-push: stop using name_path
tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
add helpers for detecting size_t overflow
The two alternative ways to spell "ssh://" transport have been
deprecated for a long time. The last mention of them has finally
removed from the documentation.
* cn/deprecate-ssh-git-url:
Disown ssh+git and git+ssh
Expand the area of globs applicability for branches and tags
in git-svn. It is now possible to use globs like 'a*e', or 'release_*'.
This allows users to avoid long lines in config like:
branches = branches/{release_20,release_21,release_22,...}
In favor of:
branches = branches/release_*
[ew: amended commit message, minor formatting and style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Victor Leschuk <vleschuk@accesssoftek.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
not set.
* mm/push-simple-doc:
Documentation/git-push: document that 'simple' is the default
* jk/tighten-alloc: (23 commits)
compat/mingw: brown paper bag fix for 50a6c8e
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
...
Some people argue that these were silly from the beginning (see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/285590/focus=285601
for example), but we have to support them for compatibility.
That doesn't mean we have to show them in the documentation. These
were already left out of the main list, but a reference in the main
manpage was left, so remove that.
Also add a note to discourage their use if anybody goes looking for them
in the source code.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also document another limitation coming from a bug in handling the
basename match with a directory for 're-inclusion'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The wording is introduced in c3f0baaca (Documentation: sync git.txt
command list and manual page title, 2007-01-18), but rebase has evolved
since then, capture the modern usage by being more generic about the
rebase command in the summary.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is a new DEVELOPER knob that enables many compiler warning
options in the Makefile.
* ls/makefile-cflags-developer-tweak:
add DEVELOPER makefile knob to check for acknowledged warnings
The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
not set.
* mm/push-simple-doc:
Documentation/git-push: document that 'simple' is the default
The "credential-cache" daemon process used to run in whatever
directory it happened to start in, but this made umount(2)ing the
filesystem that houses the repository harder; now the process
chdir()s to the directory that house its own socket on startup.
* jg/credential-cache-chdir-to-sockdir:
credential-cache--daemon: change to the socket dir on startup
credential-cache--daemon: disallow relative socket path
credential-cache--daemon: refactor check_socket_directory
The configuration system has been taught to phrase where it found a
bad configuration variable in a better way in its error messages.
"git config" learnt a new "--show-origin" option to indicate where
the values come from.
* ls/config-origin:
config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config value
config: add 'origin_type' to config_source struct
rename git_config_from_buf to git_config_from_mem
t: do not hide Git's exit code in tests using 'nul_to_q'
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 ref-filter's format-parsing code has been refactored, in
preparation for "branch --format" and friends.
* kn/ref-filter-atom-parsing:
ref-filter: introduce objectname_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce contents_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce remote_ref_atom_parser()
ref-filter: align: introduce long-form syntax
ref-filter: introduce align_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce parse_align_position()
ref-filter: introduce color_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce parsing functions for each valid atom
ref-filter: introduce struct used_atom
ref-filter: bump 'used_atom' and related code to the top
ref-filter: use string_list_split over strbuf_split
We assume Git developers have a reasonably modern compiler and recommend
them to enable the DEVELOPER makefile knob to ensure their patches are
clear of all compiler warnings the Git core project cares about.
Enable the DEVELOPER makefile knob in the Travis-CI build.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Another try to add support to the ignore mechanism that lets you
say "this is excluded" and then later say "oh, no, this part (that
is a subset of the previous part) is not excluded".
* nd/exclusion-regression-fix:
dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely
dir.c: support marking some patterns already matched
dir.c: support tracing exclude
dir.c: fix match_pathname()
You can now set http.[<url>.]pinnedpubkey to specify the pinned
public key when building with recent enough versions of libcURL.
* ce/https-public-key-pinning:
http: implement public key pinning
Some authentication methods do not need username or password, but
libcurl needs some hint that it needs to perform authentication.
Supplying an empty username and password string is a valid way to
do so, but you can set the http.[<url>.]emptyAuth configuration
variable to achieve the same, if you find it cleaner.
* bc/http-empty-auth:
http: add option to try authentication without username
"git fetch" and friends that make network connections can now be
told to only use ipv4 (or ipv6).
* ew/force-ipv4:
connect & http: support -4 and -6 switches for remote operations
The default behavior is well documented already in git-config(1), but
git-push(1) itself did not mention it at all. For users willing to learn
how "git push" works but not how to configure it, this makes the
documentation cumbersome to read.
Make the git-push(1) page self-contained by adding a short summary of
what 'push.default=simple' does, early in the page.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
