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
Cherry pick commit d3775de0 (Makefile: force -O0 when compiling with
SANITIZE=leak, 2022-10-18), as otherwise the leak checker at GitHub
Actions CI seems to fail with a false positive.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up.
* jk/cleanup-callback-parameters:
attr: drop DEBUG_ATTR code
commit: avoid writing to global in option callback
multi-pack-index: avoid writing to global in option callback
test-submodule: inline resolve_relative_url() function
"GIT_EDITOR=: git branch --edit-description" resulted in failure,
which has been corrected.
* jc/branch-description-unset:
branch: do not fail a no-op --edit-desc
The codepath to sign learned to report errors when it fails to read
from "ssh-keygen".
* pw/ssh-sign-report-errors:
ssh signing: return an error when signature cannot be read
Fix a logic in "mailinfo -b" that miscomputed the length of a
substring, which lead to an out-of-bounds access.
* pw/mailinfo-b-fix:
mailinfo -b: fix an out of bounds access
Force C locale while running tests around httpd to make sure we can
find expected error messages in the log.
* rs/test-httpd-in-C-locale:
t/lib-httpd: pass LANG and LC_ALL to Apache
In read-only repositories, "git merge-tree" tried to come up with a
merge result tree object, which it failed (which is not wrong) and
led to a segfault (which is bad), which has been corrected.
* js/merge-ort-in-read-only-repo:
merge-ort: return early when failing to write a blob
merge-ort: fix segmentation fault in read-only repositories
"git rebase -i" can mistakenly attempt to apply a fixup to a commit
itself, which has been corrected.
* ja/rebase-i-avoid-amending-self:
sequencer: avoid dropping fixup commit that targets self via commit-ish
"git fsck" failed to release contents of tree objects already used
from the memory, which has been fixed.
* jk/fsck-on-diet:
parse_object_buffer(): respect save_commit_buffer
fsck: turn off save_commit_buffer
fsck: free tree buffers after walking unreachable objects
"git clone" did not like to see the "--bare" and the "--origin"
options used together without a good reason.
* jk/clone-allow-bare-and-o-together:
clone: allow "--bare" with "-o"
"git remote rename" failed to rename a remote without fetch
refspec, which has been corrected.
* jk/remote-rename-without-fetch-refspec:
remote: handle rename of remote without fetch refspec
The codepath that reads from the index v4 had unaligned memory
accesses, which has been corrected.
* vd/fix-unaligned-read-index-v4:
read-cache: avoid misaligned reads in index v4
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>
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>
The strvec "argv" is used to build a command for run_command_v_opt(),
but never freed. Use a constant string array instead, which doesn't
require any cleanup.
Suggested-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explicitly cloning over the "file://" protocol in t7527 in preparation
for merging a security release which will change the default value of
this configuration to be "user".
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Since its inception in d0bfd026a8 (Add basic infrastructure to assign
attributes to paths, 2007-04-12), the attribute code carries a little
bit of debug code that is conditionally compiled only when DEBUG_ATTR is
set. But since you have to know about it and make a special build of Git
to use it, it's not clear that it's helping anyone (and there are very
few mentions of it on the list over the years).
Meanwhile, it causes slight headaches. Since it's not built as part of a
regular compile, it's subject to bitrot. E.g., this was dealt with in
712efb1a42 (attr: make it build with DEBUG_ATTR again, 2013-01-15), and
it currently fails to build with DEVELOPER=1 since e810e06357 (attr:
tighten const correctness with git_attr and match_attr, 2017-01-27).
And it causes confusion with -Wunused-parameter; the "what" parameter of
fill_one() is unused in a normal build, but needed in a debug build.
Let's just get rid of this code (and the now-useless parameter).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The callback function for --trailer writes directly to the global
trailer_args and ignores opt->value completely. This is OK, since that's
where we expect to find the value. But it does mean the option
declaration isn't as clear. E.g., we have:
OPT_BOOL(0, "reset-author", &renew_authorship, ...),
OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "trailer", NULL, ..., opt_pass_trailer)
In the first one we can see where the result will be stored, but in the
second, we get only NULL, and you have to go read the callback.
Let's pass &trailer_args, and use it in the callback. As a bonus, this
silences a -Wunused-parameter warning.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
