We no longer are dealing with a mixture of previous and desired
behavior, so simplify the tests a bit.
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remove_dir_recurse(), and its non-static wrapper called
remove_dir_recursively(), both take flags for modifying its behavior.
As with the previous commits, we would generally like to protect
the original_cwd, but we want to forced user commands (e.g. 'git rm -rf
...') or other special cases to remove it. Add a flag for this purpose.
After reading through every caller of remove_dir_recursively() in the
current codebase, there was only one that should be adjusted and that
one only in a very unusual circumstance. Add a pair of new testcases to
highlight that very specific case involving submodules && --git-dir &&
--work-tree.
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Modern git often tries to avoid leaving empty directories around when
removing files. Originally, it did not bother. This behavior started
with commit 80e21a9ed8 (merge-recursive::removeFile: remove empty
directories, 2005-11-19), stating the reason simply as:
When the last file in a directory is removed as the result of a
merge, try to rmdir the now-empty directory.
This was reimplemented in C and renamed to remove_path() in commit
e1b3a2cad7 ("Build-in merge-recursive", 2008-02-07), but was still
internal to merge-recursive.
This trend towards removing leading empty directories continued with
commit d9b814cc97 (Add builtin "git rm" command, 2006-05-19), which
stated the reasoning as:
The other question is what to do with leading directories. The old
"git rm" script didn't do anything, which is somewhat inconsistent.
This one will actually clean up directories that have become empty
as a result of removing the last file, but maybe we want to have a
flag to decide the behaviour?
remove_path() in dir.c was added in 4a92d1bfb7 (Add remove_path: a
function to remove as much as possible of a path, 2008-09-27), because
it was noted that we had two separate implementations of the same idea
AND both were buggy. It described the purpose of the function as
a function to remove as much as possible of a path
Why remove as much as possible? Well, at the time we probably would
have said something like:
* removing leading directories makes things feel tidy
* removing leading directories doesn't hurt anything so long as they
had no files in them.
But I don't believe those reasons hold when the empty directory happens
to be the current working directory we inherited from our parent
process. Leaving the parent process in a deleted directory can cause
user confusion when subsequent processes fail: any git command, for
example, will immediately fail with
fatal: Unable to read current working directory: No such file or directory
Other commands may similarly get confused. Modify remove_path() so that
the empty leading directories it also deletes does not include the
current working directory we inherited from our parent process. I have
looked through every caller of remove_path() in the current codebase to
make sure that all should take this change.
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Since stash spawns a `clean` subprocess, make sure we run that from the
startup_info->original_cwd directory, so that the `clean` processs knows
to protect that directory. Also, since the `clean` command might no
longer run from the toplevel, pass the ':/' magic pathspec to ensure we
still clean from the toplevel.
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Since rebase spawns a `checkout` subprocess, make sure we run that from
the startup_info->original_cwd directory, so that the checkout process
knows to protect that directory.
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symlinks has a pair of schedule_dir_for_removal() and
remove_scheduled_dirs() functions that ensure that directories made
empty by removing other files also themselves get removed. However, we
want to exclude startup_info->original_cwd and leave it around. This
avoids the user getting confused by subsequent git commands (and non-git
commands) that would otherwise report confusing messages about being
unable to read the current working directory.
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When running commands such as `git reset --hard` from a subdirectory, if
that subdirectory is in the way of adding needed files, bail with an
error message.
Note that this change looks kind of like it duplicates the new lines of
code from the previous commit in verify_clean_subdirectory(). However,
when we are preserving untracked files, we would rather any error
messages about untracked files being in the way take precedence over
error messages about a subdirectory that happens to be the_original_cwd
being in the way. But in the UNPACK_RESET_OVERWRITE_UNTRACKED case,
there is no untracked checking to be done, so we simply add a special
case near the top of verify_absent_1.
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In the past, when a directory needs to be removed to make room for a
file, we have always errored out when that directory contains any
untracked (but not ignored) files. Add an extra condition on that: also
error out if the directory is the current working directory we inherited
from our parent process.
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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Numerous commands will remove directories left empty as a "convenience"
after removing files within them. That is normally fine, but removing
the current working directory can be rather inconvenient since it can
cause confusion for the user when they run subsequent commands. For
example, after one git process has removed the current working
directory, git status/log/diff will all abort with the message:
fatal: Unable to read current working directory: No such file or directory
We also have code paths that, when a file needs to be placed where a
directory is (due to e.g. checkout, merge, reset, whatever), will check
if this is okay and error out if not. These rules include:
* all tracked files under that directory are intended to be removed by
the operation
* none of the tracked files under that directory have uncommitted
modification
* there are no untracked files under that directory
However, if we end up remove the current working directory, we can cause
user confusion when they run subsequent commands, so we would prefer if
there was a fourth rule added to this list: avoid removing the current
working directory.
Since there are several code paths that can result in the current
working directory being removed, add several tests of various different
codepaths. To make it clearer what the difference between the current
behavior and the behavior at the end of the series, code both of them
into the tests and have the appropriate behavior be selected by a flag.
Subsequent commits will toggle the flag from current to desired
behavior.
Also add a few tests suggested during the review of earlier rounds of
this patch series.
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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
