One of the most common uses of git_path() is to pass a
constant, like git_path("MERGE_MSG"). This has two
drawbacks:
1. The return value is a static buffer, and the lifetime
is dependent on other calls to git_path, etc.
2. There's no compile-time checking of the pathname. This
is OK for a one-off (after all, we have to spell it
correctly at least once), but many of these constant
strings appear throughout the code.
This patch introduces a series of functions to "memoize"
these strings, which are essentially globals for the
lifetime of the program. We compute the value once, take
ownership of the buffer, and return the cached value for
subsequent calls. cache.h provides a helper macro for
defining these functions as one-liners, and defines a few
common ones for global use.
Using a macro is a little bit gross, but it does nicely
document the purpose of the functions. If we need to touch
them all later (e.g., because we learned how to change the
git_dir variable at runtime, and need to invalidate all of
the stored values), it will be much easier to have the
complete list.
Note that the shared-global functions have separate, manual
declarations. We could do something clever with the macros
(e.g., expand it to a declaration in some places, and a
declaration _and_ a definition in path.c). But there aren't
that many, and it's probably better to stay away from
too-magical macros.
Likewise, if we abandon the C preprocessor in favor of
generating these with a script, we could get much fancier.
E.g., normalizing "FOO/BAR-BAZ" into "git_path_foo_bar_baz".
But the small amount of saved typing is probably not worth
the resulting confusion to readers who want to grep for the
function's definition.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Given that these constants are only being used when updating
references, it is inappropriate to give them such generic names as
"DIE_ON_ERR". So prefix their names with "UPDATE_REFS_".
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Optimise the "merge-base" computation a bit, and also update its
users that do not need the full merge-base information to call a
cheaper subset.
* jc/merge-bases:
reduce_heads(): reimplement on top of remove_redundant()
merge-base: "--is-ancestor A B"
get_merge_bases_many(): walk from many tips in parallel
in_merge_bases(): use paint_down_to_common()
merge_bases_many(): split out the logic to paint history
in_merge_bases(): omit unnecessary redundant common ancestor reduction
http-push: use in_merge_bases() for fast-forward check
receive-pack: use in_merge_bases() for fast-forward check
in_merge_bases(): support only one "other" commit
In early days of its life, I planned to make it possible to compute
"is a commit contained in all of these other commits?" with this
function, but it turned out that no caller needed it.
Just make it take two commit objects and add a comment to say what
these two functions do.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error handling routines add a newline. Remove
the duplicate ones in error messages.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
(Just like we did for documentation already)
In the process, we change "non-remote branch" to "branch outside the
refs/remotes/ hierarchy" to avoid the ugly "non-remote-tracking branch".
The new formulation actually corresponds to how the code detects this
case (i.e. prefixcmp(refname, "refs/remotes")).
Also, we use 'remote-tracking branch' in generated merge messages (by
merge an fmt-merge-msg).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jn/help-everywhere: (23 commits)
diff --no-index: make the usage string less scary
merge-{recursive,subtree}: use usagef() to print usage
Introduce usagef() that takes a printf-style format
Let 'git <command> -h' show usage without a git dir
Show usage string for 'git http-push -h'
Let 'git http-fetch -h' show usage outside any git repository
Show usage string for 'git stripspace -h'
Show usage string for 'git unpack-file -h'
Show usage string for 'git show-index -h'
Show usage string for 'git rev-parse -h'
Show usage string for 'git merge-one-file -h'
Show usage string for 'git mailsplit -h'
Show usage string for 'git imap-send -h'
Show usage string for 'git get-tar-commit-id -h'
Show usage string for 'git fast-import -h'
Show usage string for 'git check-ref-format -h'
http-fetch: add missing initialization of argv0_path
Show usage string for 'git show-ref -h'
Show usage string for 'git merge-ours -h'
Show usage string for 'git commit-tree -h'
...
Conflicts:
imap-send.c
When git-fetch was builtin-ized, the previous script was moved to
contrib/examples. Now, it is the sole remaining user for
'git fetch--tool'.
The fetch--tool code is still worth keeping around so people can
try out the old git-fetch.sh, for example when investigating
regressions from the builtinifaction.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
