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Junio C Hamano
fdcb769916 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  format-patch: add MIME-Version header when we add content-type.
  Fixed link in user-manual
  import-tars: Use the "Link indicator" to identify directories
  git name-rev writes beyond the end of malloc() with large generations
  Documentation/branch: fix small typo in -D example
2007-05-16 12:43:05 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
7e431ef9ab gitweb: Separate search regexp from search text
Separate search text, which is saved in $searchtext global variable,
and is used in links, as default value for the textfield in search
form, and for pickaxe search, from search regexp, which is saved in
$search_regexp global variable, and is used as parameter to --grep,
--committer or --author options to git-rev-list, and for searching
commit body in gitweb.  For now $search_regexp is unconditionallt
equal to quotemeta($searchtext), meaning that we always search for
fixed string.

This fixes bug where 'next page' links for 'search' view didn't work
for searchtext containing quotable characters, like `@'.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-16 12:40:06 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
b211c320eb gitweb: Do not use absolute font sizes
David Kågedal proposed that gitweb should explicitely request
being somewhat smaller than normal, because it has good use for
long lines. However gitweb presents a table with several
columns, so having wider line is OK for it. Therefore explicit
'font-size: small' would make sense.  Apparently many people on
the list seem to agree with him.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-16 12:40:06 -07:00
Jeff King
0ab564be6e format-patch: add MIME-Version header when we add content-type.
When we add Content-Type: header, we should also add
MIME-Version: header as well.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-16 12:37:25 -07:00
Steffen Prohaska
61d7256431 Fixed link in user-manual
link to git-mergetool was broken.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-16 12:32:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
df9f91f873 Merge branch 'maint' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport into maint
* 'maint' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
  import-tars: Use the "Link indicator" to identify directories
2007-05-16 12:13:55 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
df8cfac815 import-tars: Use the "Link indicator" to identify directories
Earlier, we used the mode to determine if a name was associated with
a directory. This fails, since some tar programs do not set the mode
correctly. However, the link indicator _has_ to be set correctly.

Noticed by Chris Riddoch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-05-16 14:54:22 -04:00
Johan Herland
8a912bcb25 Ensure return value from xread() is always stored into an ssize_t
This patch fixes all calls to xread() where the return value is not
stored into an ssize_t. The patch should not have any effect whatsoever,
other than putting better/more appropriate type names on variables.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-15 21:16:03 -07:00
Johan Herland
2924415f4f Fix signedness on return value from xread()
The return value from xread() is ssize_t.
Paolo Teti <paolo.teti@gmail.com> pointed out that in this case, the
signed return value was assigned to an unsigned type (size_t). This patch
fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-15 21:15:54 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
cf606e3ddd git name-rev writes beyond the end of malloc() with large generations
When using git name-rev on my kernel tree I triggered a malloc()
corruption warning from glibc.

apw@pinky$ git log --pretty=one $N/base.. | git name-rev --stdin
*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0bff8950 ***
Aborted

This comes from name_rev() which is building the name of the revision
in a malloc'd string, which it sprintf's into:

	char *new_name = xmalloc(len + 8);
	[...]
		sprintf(new_name, "%.*s~%d^%d", len, tip_name,
				generation, parent_number);

This allocation is only sufficient if the generation number is
less than 5 digits, in my case generation was 13432.  In reality
parent_number can be up to 16 so that also can require two digits,
reducing us to 3 digits before we are at risk of blowing this
allocation.

This patch introduces a decimal_length() which approximates the
number of digits a type may hold, it produces the following:

Type                 Longest Value          Len  Est
----                 -------------          ---  ---
unsigned char        256                      3    4
unsigned short       65536                    5    6
unsigned long        4294967296              10   11
unsigned long long   18446744073709551616    20   21
char                 -128                     4    4
short                -32768                   6    6
long                 -2147483648             11   11
long long            -9223372036854775808    20   21

This is then used to size the new_name.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-15 18:14:42 -07:00
Quy Tonthat
045fe3ccda Documentation/branch: fix small typo in -D example
Signed-off-by: Quy Tonthat <qtonthat@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-14 20:17:00 -07:00
Andy Parkins
af9b54bb2c Use $Id$ as the ident attribute keyword rather than $ident$ to be consistent with other VCSs
$Id$ is present already in SVN and CVS; it would mean that people
converting their existing repositories won't have to make any changes to
the source files should they want to make use of the ident attribute.

Given that it's a feature that's meant to calm those very people, it
seems obtuse to make them edit every file just to make use of it.

I think that bzr uses $Id$; Mercurial has examples hooks for $Id$;
monotone has $Id$ on its wishlist.  I can't think of a good reason not
to stick with the de-facto standard and call ours $Id$ instead of
$ident$.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-14 19:03:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3545193735 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Prepare for 1.5.1.5 Release Notes
  gitweb: Add a few comments about %feature hash
  git-am: Clean up the asciidoc documentation
  Documentation: format-patch has no --mbox option
  builtin-log.c: Fix typo in comment
  Fix git-clone buglet for remote case.
2007-05-14 18:50:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
52e7b744d3 Prepare for 1.5.1.5 Release Notes
Hopefully we will have 1.5.2 soonish, to contain all of these,
but we should summarize what we have done regardless.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-14 17:51:12 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
b4b20b2164 gitweb: Add a few comments about %feature hash
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-14 17:26:46 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
870e0d61d3 git-am: Clean up the asciidoc documentation
Add --keep to synopsis.

The synopsys used a mix of tabs and spaces, unify to use only
spaces.

Shuffle options around in synopsys and description for grouping
them logically.

Add more gitlink references to other commands.

Various grammatical fixes and improvements.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-14 17:25:02 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
7b1885d1e7 Documentation: format-patch has no --mbox option
git-applymbox and git-mailinfo refer to a --mbox option of
git-format-patch when talking about their -k options. But there
is no such option.  What -k does to the former two commands is
to keep the Subject: lines unmunged, meant to be used on output
generated with format-patch -k.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-14 17:23:52 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
2dc189a353 builtin-log.c: Fix typo in comment
s/fmt-patch/format-patch/

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-14 16:52:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
223fa32784 Fix git-clone buglet for remote case.
c2f599e09f introduced a buglet while
cloning from a remote URL; we forgot to squelch the unnecessary
error message when we try to cd to the given "remote" name,
in order to see if it is a local directory.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-14 14:24:02 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
460c6996e2 cvsserver: Don't send mixed messages to clients
After we send I HATE YOU we should probably exit and not happily
continue with I LOVE YOU and further communication.

Most clients will probably just exit and ignore everything we
send after the I HATE YOU and it is not a security problem
either because we don't really care about the user name anyway.

But it is still the right thing to do.

[jc: with a minor fixup to its exit code...]

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Acked-by: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 23:57:27 -07:00
Jeff King
dfaa61bd52 Documentation/git-add: clarify -u with path limiting
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 18:45:15 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
331b51d240 Documentation: Split description of pretty formats of commit log
Split description of pretty formats into list of pretty options
(--pretty and --encoding) in new file Documentation/pretty-options.txt
and description of formats itself as a separate "PRETTY FORMATS"
section in pretty-formats.txt

While at it correct formatting a bit, to be better laid out in the
resulting manpages: git-rev-list(1), git-show(1), git-log(1) and
git-diff-tree(1).  Those manpages now include pretty options in the
same place as it was before, and description of formats just after
all options.

Inspired by the split into two filesdocumentation for merge strategies:
Documentation/merge-options.txt and Documentation/merge-strategies.txt

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 18:44:50 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
785cdea9be gitweb: Fix "Use of unitialized value" warnings in empty repository
Fix it so gitweb doesn't write "Use of unitialized value..." warnings
(which gets written in web server logs) for empty (no commits)
repository.

In empty repository "last change" (last activity) doesn't make sense;
also there is no sense in parsing commits which aren't there.

In projects list for empty repositories gitweb now writes "No commits"
using "noage" class, instead of leaving cell empty, in the last change
column.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 18:22:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
43d151a1b0 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-svn: don't attempt to minimize URLs by default
  git-svn: fix segfaults due to initial SVN pool being cleared
  git-svn: clean up caching of SVN::Ra functions
  git-svn: don't drop the username from URLs when dcommit is run
  RPM spec: include files in technical/ to package.
  Remove stale non-static-inline prototype for tree_entry_extract()
  git-config: test for 'do not forget "a.b.var" ends "a.var" section'.
  git-config: do not forget seeing "a.b.var" means we are out of "a.var" section.
2007-05-13 13:34:40 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
f987afa8fe cvsserver: Limit config parser to needed options
Change the configuration parser so that it ignores
everything except for ^gitcvs.((ext|pserver).)?
This greatly reduces the risk of failing while
parsing some unknown and irrelevant config option.

The bug that triggered this change was that the
parsing doesn't handle sections that have a
subsection and a variable with the same name.

While this bug still remains, all remaining
causes can be attributed to user error, since
there are no defined variables gitcvs.ext and
gitcvs.pserver.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 12:14:22 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
198a2a8a69 gitweb: Check if requested object exists
Try to avoid "Use of uninitialized value ..." errors caused by bad
revision, incorrect filename, wrong object id, bad file etc. (wrong
value of 'h', 'hb', 'f', etc. parameters). This avoids polluting web
server errors log.

Correct git_get_hash_by_path and parse_commit_text (and, in turn,
parse_commit) to return undef if object does not exist.  Check in
git_tag if requested tag exists.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 12:12:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a2983cb740 Link to HTML version of external doc if available
Currently

$ git grep '\([^t]\|^\)'link: user-manual.txt

gives four hits that refer to .txt version of the documentation
set, but at least "hooks" and "cvs-migration" have HTML variants
installed, so refer to them instead.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 12:12:19 -07:00
Eric Wong
4a1bb4c3f8 git-svn: don't attempt to minimize URLs by default
For tracking branches and tags, git-svn prefers to connect
to the root of the repository or at least the level that
houses branches and tags as well as trunk.  However, users
that are accustomed to tracking a single directory have
no use for this feature.

As pointed out by Junio, users may not have permissions to
connect to connect to a higher-level path in the repository.

While the current minimize_url() function detects lack of
permissions to certain paths _after_ successful logins, it
cannot effectively determine if it is trying to access a
login-only portion of a repo when the user expects to
connect to a part where anonymous access is allowed.

For people used to the git-svnimport switches of
--trunk, --tags, --branches, they'll already pass the
repository root (or root+subdirectory), so minimize URL
isn't of too much use to them, either.

For people *not* used to git-svnimport, git-svn also
supports:

 git svn init --minimize-url \
  --trunk http://repository-root/foo/trunk \
  --branches http://repository-root/foo/branches \
  --tags http://repository-root/foo/tags

And this is where the new --minimize-url command-line switch
comes in to allow for this behavior to continue working.
2007-05-13 12:10:43 -07:00
Eric Wong
4c03c3eb4e git-svn: fix segfaults due to initial SVN pool being cleared
Some parts of SVN always seem to use it, even if the SVN::Ra
object we're using is no longer used and we've created a new one
in its place.  It's also true that only one SVN::Ra connection
can exist at once...  Using SVN::Pool->new_default when the
SVN::Ra object is created doesn't seem to help very much,
either...

Hopefully this fixes all segfault problems users have been
experiencing over the past few months.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2007-05-13 12:10:42 -07:00
Eric Wong
0dc03d6a30 git-svn: clean up caching of SVN::Ra functions
This patch was originally intended to make the Perl GC more
sensitive to the SVN::Pool objects and not accidentally clean
them up when they shouldn't be (causing segfaults).  That didn't
work, but this patch makes the code a bit cleaner regardless

Put our caches for get_dir and check_path calls directly into
the SVN::Ra object so they auto-expire when it is destroyed.

dirents returned by get_dir() no longer needs the pool object
stored persistently along with the cache data, as they'll be
converted to native Perl hash references.

Since calling rev_proplist repeatedly per-revision is no longer
needed in git-svn, we do not cache calls to it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2007-05-13 12:10:42 -07:00
Eric Wong
645833b564 git-svn: don't drop the username from URLs when dcommit is run
We no longer store usernames in URLs stored in git-svn-id lines
for dcommit, so we shouldn't rely on those URLs when connecting
to the remote repository to commit.
2007-05-13 12:10:42 -07:00
Quy Tonthat
b24dd51bf6 RPM spec: include files in technical/ to package.
Not only that they are interesting to users, some of the
files are linked to by the included "Git User's Manual"

Signed-off-by: Quy Tonthat <qtonthat@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 12:00:28 -07:00
Matthieu Castet
0ab311d601 Remove stale non-static-inline prototype for tree_entry_extract()
When 4651ece8 made the function a "static inline", it should
have removd the stale prototype but everybody missed that.

Thomas Glanzmann noticed this broke compilation with Forte12
compiler on his Sun boxes.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 11:57:00 -07:00
Steffen Prohaska
b18a2be37a git-config: test for 'do not forget "a.b.var" ends "a.var" section'.
Added test for mentioned bugfix.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 00:24:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ae9ee41de8 git-config: do not forget seeing "a.b.var" means we are out of "a.var" section.
Earlier code tried to be half-careful and knew the logic that
seeing "a.var" after seeing "a.b.var" is a sign of the previous
"a.b." section has ended, but forgot it has to handle the other
way.  Seeing "a.b.var" after seeing "a.var" is a sign that "a."
section has ended, so a new "a.var2" variable should be added
before the location "a.b.var" appears.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 00:19:58 -07:00
Jan Hudec
24a0d61e51 Minor fixup to documentation of hooks in git-receive-pack.
Small additional changes to the cbb84e5d17
commit, which introduced documentation to pre-receive and post-receive:
 - Mention that stdout and stderr are equivalent.
 - Add one cross-section link and fix one other.
 - Fix information on advantages of post-receive over post-update.

Signed-off-by: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-12 15:46:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
667152528d Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  checkout: allow detaching to HEAD even when switching to the tip of a branch
  Updated documentation of hooks in git-receive-pack.
  Allow fetching references from any namespace
  tiny fix in documentation of git-clone
  Fix an unmatched comment end in arm/sha1_arm.S
2007-05-12 13:16:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fdc99cbbdc checkout: allow detaching to HEAD even when switching to the tip of a branch
You cannot currently checkout the tip of an existing branch
without moving to the branch.

This allows you to detach your HEAD and place it at such a
commit, with:

    $ git checkout master^0

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-12 12:35:54 -07:00
Jan Hudec
cbb84e5d17 Updated documentation of hooks in git-receive-pack.
Added documentation of pre-receive and post-receive hooks and updated
documentation of update and post-update hooks.

[jc: with minor copy-editing]

Signed-off-by: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-12 11:13:08 -07:00
Junio Hamano
a25907dac4 t9400: Use the repository config and nothing else.
git-cvsserver has a bug in its configuration file output parser
that makes it choke if the configuration has these:

        [diff]
                color = auto
        [diff.color]
                whitespace = blue reverse

This needs to be fixed, but thanks to that bug, a separate bug
in t9400 test script was discovered.  The test discarded
GIT_CONFIG instead of pointing at the proper one to be used in
the exoprted repository.  This allowed user's .gitconfig and (if
exists) systemwide /etc/gitconfig to affect the outcome of the
test, which is a big no-no.

The patch fixes the problem in the test.  Fixing the
git-cvsserver's configuration parser is left as an exercise to
motivated volunteers ;-)

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-12 10:19:13 -07:00
Alex Riesen
96f12b54f7 Allow fetching references from any namespace
not only from the three defined: heads, tags and remotes.

Noticed when I tried to fetch the references created by git-p4-import.bat:
they are placed into separate namespace (refs/p4import/, to avoid showing
them in git-branch output). As canon_refs_list_for_fetch always prepended
refs/heads/ it was impossible, and annoying: it worked before. Normally,
the p4import references are useless anywhere but in the directory managed
by perforce, but in this special case the cloned directory was supposed
to be a backup, including the p4import branch: it keeps information about
where the imported perforce state came from.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-12 09:36:06 -07:00
Lars Hjemli
02851e0b9e git-archive: don't die when repository uses subprojects
Both archive-tar and archive-zip needed to be taught about subprojects.
The tar function died when trying to read the subproject commit object,
while the zip function reported "unsupported file mode".

This fixes both by representing the subproject as an empty directory.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-12 09:35:07 -07:00
Steffen Prohaska
a6e3768f64 tiny fix in documentation of git-clone
path in example was missing '../'

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-12 09:20:51 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
2206537c07 gitweb: Test if $from_id and $to_id are defined before comparison
Get rid of "Use of uninitialized value in string eq at
gitweb/gitweb.perl line 2320" warning caused by the fact that "empty"
patches, consisting only of extended git diff header and with patch
body empty, such as patch for pure rename, does not have "index" line
in extended diff header.  For such patches $from_id and $to_id, filled
from parsing extended diff header, are undefined.  But such patches
cannot be continuation patches.

Test if $from_id and $to_id are defined before comparing them with
$diffinfo.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-12 09:19:08 -07:00
Marco Costalba
7e9116b1d8 Fix an unmatched comment end in arm/sha1_arm.S
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-12 09:16:50 -07:00
Jeff King
93c44d493b git-add: allow path limiting with -u
Rather than updating all working tree paths, we limit
ourselves to paths listed on the command line.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-12 01:01:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
16a4c6176a read-tree -m -u: avoid getting confused by intermediate symlinks.
When switching from a branch with both x86_64/boot/Makefile and
i386/boot/Makefile to another branch that has x86_64/boot as a
symlink pointing at ../i386/boot, the code incorrectly removed
i386/boot/Makefile.

This was because we first removed everything under x86_64/boot
to make room to create a symbolic link x86_64/boot, then removed
x86_64/boot/Makefile which no longer exists but now is pointing
at i386/boot/Makefile, thanks to the symlink we just created.

This fixes it by using the has_symlink_leading_path() function
introduced previously for git-apply in the checkout codepath.
Earlier, "git checkout" was broken in t4122 test due to this
bug, and the test had an extra "git reset --hard" as a
workaround, which is removed because it is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-11 22:33:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
64cab59159 apply: do not get confused by symlinks in the middle
HPA noticed that git-rebase fails when changes involve symlinks
in the middle of the hierarchy.  Consider:

 * The tree state before the patch is applied has arch/x86_64/boot
   as a symlink pointing at ../i386/boot/

 * The patch tries to remove arch/x86_64/boot symlink, and
   create bunch of files there: .gitignore, Makefile, etc.

git-apply tries to be careful while applying patches; it never
touches the working tree until it is convinced that the patch
would apply cleanly.  One of the check it does is that when it
knows a path is going to be created by the patch, it runs
lstat() on the path to make sure it does not exist.

This leads to a false alarm.  Because we do not touch the
working tree before all the check passes, when we try to make
sure that arch/x86_64/boot/.gitignore does not exist yet, we
haven't removed the arch/x86_64/boot symlink.  The lstat() check
ends up seeing arch/i386/boot/.gitignore through the
yet-to-be-removed symlink, and says "Hey, you already have a
file there, but what you fed me is a patch to create a new
file. I am not going to clobber what you have in the working
tree."

We have similar checks to see a file we are going to modify does
exist and match the preimage of the diff, which is done by
directly opening and reading the file.

For a file we are going to delete, we make sure that it does
exist and matches what is going to be removed (a removal patch
records the full preimage, so we check what you have in your
working tree matches it in full -- otherwise we would risk
losing your local changes), which again is done by directly
opening and reading the file.

These checks need to be adjusted so that they are not fooled by
symlinks in the middle.

 - To make sure something does not exist, first lstat().  If it
   does not exist, it does not, so be happy.  If it _does_, we
   might be getting fooled by a symlink in the middle, so break
   leading paths and see if there are symlinks involved.  When
   we are checking for a path a/b/c/d, if any of a, a/b, a/b/c
   is a symlink, then a/b/c/d does _NOT_ exist, for the purpose
   of our test.

   This would fix this particular case you saw, and would not
   add extra overhead in the usual case.

 - To make sure something already exists, first lstat().  If it
   does not exist, barf (up to this, we already do).  Even if it
   does seem to exist, we might be getting fooled by a symlink
   in the middle, so make sure leading paths are not symlinks.

   This would make the normal codepath much more expensive for
   deep trees, which is a bit worrisome.

This patch implements the first side of the check "making sure
it does not exist".  The latter "making sure it exists" check is
not done yet, so applying the patch in reverse would still
fail, but we have to start from somewhere.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-11 22:26:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f859c846e9 Add has_symlink_leading_path() function.
When we are applying a patch that creates a blob at a path, or
when we are switching from a branch that does not have a blob at
the path to another branch that has one, we need to make sure
that there is nothing at the path in the working tree, as such a
file is a local modification made by the user that would be lost
by the operation.

Normally, lstat() on the path and making sure ENOENT is returned
is good enough for that purpose.  However there is a twist.  We
may be creating a regular file arch/x86_64/boot/Makefile, while
removing an existing symbolic link at arch/x86_64/boot that
points at existing ../i386/boot directory that has Makefile in
it.  We always first check without touching filesystem and then
perform the actual operation, so when we verify the new file,
arch/x86_64/boot/Makefile, does not exist, we haven't removed
the symbolic link arc/x86_64/boot symbolic link yet.  lstat() on
the file sees through the symbolic link and reports the file is
there, which is not what we want.

The function has_symlink_leading_path() function takes a path,
and sees if any of the leading directory component is a symbolic
link.

When files in a new directory are created, we tend to process
them together because both index and tree are sorted.  The
function takes advantage of this and allows the caller to cache
and reuse which symbolic link on the filesystem caused the
function to return true.

The calling sequence would be:

	char last_symlink[PATH_MAX];

        *last_symlink = '\0';
        for each index entry {
		if (!lose)
			continue;
		if (lstat(it))
			if (errno == ENOENT)
				; /* happy */
			else
				error;
		else if (has_symlink_leading_path(it, last_symlink))
			; /* happy */
		else
			error; /* would lose local changes */
		unlink_entry(it, last_symlink);
	}

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-11 22:11:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
211fb4fe78 Minor copyediting on Release Notes for 1.5.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-10 21:59:13 -07:00