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2017-10-11Merge branch 'rs/rs-mailmap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* rs/rs-mailmap: .mailmap: normalize name for René Scharfe
2017-10-11Merge branch 'rs/fsck-null-return-from-lookup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-4/+26
Improve behaviour of "git fsck" upon finding a missing object. * rs/fsck-null-return-from-lookup: fsck: handle NULL return of lookup_blob() and lookup_tree()
2017-10-11Merge branch 'jk/sha1-loose-object-info-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
Leakfix and futureproofing. * jk/sha1-loose-object-info-fix: sha1_loose_object_info: handle errors from unpack_sha1_rest
2017-10-11Merge branch 'hn/string-list-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Docfix. * hn/string-list-doc: api-argv-array.txt: remove broken link to string-list API
2017-10-11Merge branch 'tb/show-trailers-in-ref-filter'Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-17/+122
"git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a new format element, %(trailers), to show only the commit log trailer part of the log message. * tb/show-trailers-in-ref-filter: ref-filter.c: parse trailers arguments with %(contents) atom ref-filter.c: use trailer_opts to format trailers t6300: refactor %(trailers) tests doc: use "`<literal>`"-style quoting for literal strings doc: 'trailers' is the preferred way to format trailers t4205: unfold across multiple lines
2017-10-11Merge branch 'jt/oidmap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano6-31/+133
Introduce a new "oidmap" API and rewrite oidset to use it. * jt/oidmap: oidmap: map with OID as key
2017-10-11Merge branch 'jr/hash-migration-plan-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+798
Lay out plans for weaning us off of SHA-1. * jr/hash-migration-plan-doc: technical doc: add a design doc for hash function transition
2017-10-09Merge branch 'js/rebase-i-final'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* js/rebase-i-final: i18n: add a missing space in message
2017-10-09i18n: add a missing space in messageLibravatar Jean-Noel Avila1-1/+1
The message spans over 2 lines but the C conconcatenation does not add the needed space between the two lines. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-07Prepare for -rc1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+38
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-07Merge branch 'tb/ref-filter-empty-modifier'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+10
In the "--format=..." option of the "git for-each-ref" command (and its friends, i.e. the listing mode of "git branch/tag"), "%(atom:)" (e.g. "%(refname:)", "%(body:)" used to error out. Instead, treat them as if the colon and an empty string that follows it were not there. * tb/ref-filter-empty-modifier: ref-filter.c: pass empty-string as NULL to atom parsers
2017-10-07Merge branch 'ks/verify-filename-non-option-error-message-tweak'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Error message tweak. * ks/verify-filename-non-option-error-message-tweak: setup: update error message to be more meaningful
2017-10-07Merge branch 'ks/branch-tweak-error-message-for-extra-args'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
Error message tweak. * ks/branch-tweak-error-message-for-extra-args: branch: change the error messages to be more meaningful
2017-10-07Merge branch 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto'Libravatar Junio C Hamano19-113/+115
Fix regression of "git add -p" for users with "color.ui = always" in their configuration, by merging the topic below and adjusting it for the 'master' front. * jk/ui-color-always-to-auto: t7301: use test_terminal to check color t4015: use --color with --color-moved color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config provide --color option for all ref-filter users t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always t3203: drop "always" color test t6006: drop "always" color config tests t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test t7508: use test_terminal for color output t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
2017-10-07Merge branch 'ma/builtin-unleak'Libravatar Junio C Hamano5-4/+11
Many variables that points at a region of memory that will live throughout the life of the program have been marked with UNLEAK marker to help the leak checkers concentrate on real leaks.. * ma/builtin-unleak: builtin/: add UNLEAKs
2017-10-07Merge branch 'rb/compat-poll-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll emulation from the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop. * rb/compat-poll-fix: poll.c: always set revents, even if to zero
2017-10-07Merge branch 'tg/memfixes'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-8/+6
Fixes for a handful memory access issues identified by valgrind. * tg/memfixes: sub-process: use child_process.args instead of child_process.argv http-push: fix construction of hex value from path path.c: fix uninitialized memory access
2017-10-07Merge branch 'sb/branch-avoid-repeated-strbuf-release'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
* sb/branch-avoid-repeated-strbuf-release: branch: reset instead of release a strbuf
2017-10-07Merge branch 'rs/qsort-s'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* rs/qsort-s: test-stringlist: avoid buffer underrun when sorting nothing
2017-10-07Merge branch 'jn/strbuf-doc-re-reuse'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+9
* jn/strbuf-doc-re-reuse: strbuf doc: reuse after strbuf_release is fine
2017-10-07Merge branch 'tb/delimit-pretty-trailers-args-with-comma'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-7/+30
The feature that allows --pretty='%(trailers)' to take modifiers like "fold" and "only" used to separate these modifiers with a comma, i.e. "%(trailers:fold:only)", but we changed our mind and use a comma, i.e. "%(trailers:fold,only)". Fast track this change before this new feature becomes part of any official release. * tb/delimit-pretty-trailers-args-with-comma: pretty.c: delimit "%(trailers)" arguments with ","
2017-10-06api-argv-array.txt: remove broken link to string-list APILibravatar Todd Zullinger1-1/+1
In 4f665f2cf3 (string-list.h: move documentation from Documentation/api/ into header, 2017-09-26) the string-list API documentation was moved to string-list.h. The argv-array API documentation may follow a similar course in the future. Until then, prevent the broken link from making it to the end-user documentation. Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-06sha1_loose_object_info: handle errors from unpack_sha1_restLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+6
When a caller of sha1_object_info_extended() sets the "contentp" field in object_info, we call unpack_sha1_rest() but do not check whether it signaled an error. This causes two problems: 1. We pass back NULL to the caller via the contentp field, but the function returns "0" for success. A caller might reasonably expect after a successful return that it can access contentp without a NULL check and segfault. As it happens, this is impossible to trigger in the current code. There is exactly one caller which uses contentp, read_object(). And the only thing it does after a successful call is to return the content pointer to its caller, using NULL as a sentinel for errors. So in effect it converts the success code from sha1_object_info_extended() back into an error! But this is still worth addressing avoid problems for future users of "contentp". 2. Callers of unpack_sha1_rest() are expected to close the zlib stream themselves on error. Which means that we're leaking the stream. The problem in (1) comes from from c84a1f3ed4 (sha1_file: refactor read_object, 2017-06-21), which added the contentp field. Before that, we called unpack_sha1_rest() via unpack_sha1_file(), which directly used the NULL to signal an error. But note that the leak in (2) is actually older than that. The original unpack_sha1_file() directly returned the result of unpack_sha1_rest() to its caller, when it should have been closing the zlib stream itself on error. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-06.mailmap: normalize name for René ScharfeLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+1
Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Reported-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-06fsck: handle NULL return of lookup_blob() and lookup_tree()Libravatar René Scharfe2-4/+26
lookup_blob() and lookup_tree() can return NULL if they find an object of an unexpected type. Accessing the object member is undefined in that case. Cast the result to a struct object pointer instead; we can do that because object is the first member of all object types. This trick is already used in other places in the code. An error message is already shown by object_as_type(), which is called by the lookup functions. The walk callback functions are expected to handle NULL object pointers passed to them, but put_object_name() needs a valid object, so avoid calling it without one. Suggested-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-05Git 2.15-rc0Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+17
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-05Merge branch 'ar/request-pull-phrasofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+3
Spell the name of our system as "Git" in the output from request-pull script. * ar/request-pull-phrasofix: request-pull: capitalise "Git" to make it a proper noun
2017-10-05Merge branch 'rs/run-command-use-alloc-array'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Code clean-up. * rs/run-command-use-alloc-array: run-command: use ALLOC_ARRAY
2017-10-05Merge branch 'sb/git-clang-format'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
Add comment to clarify that the style file is meant to be used with clang-5 and the rules are still work in progress. * sb/git-clang-format: clang-format: add a comment about the meaning/status of the
2017-10-05Merge branch 'rs/use-free-and-null'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-18/+9
Code clean-up. * rs/use-free-and-null: repository: use FREE_AND_NULL
2017-10-05Merge branch 'rs/tag-null-pointer-arith-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Code clean-up. * rs/tag-null-pointer-arith-fix: tag: avoid NULL pointer arithmetic
2017-10-05Merge branch 'rs/cocci-de-paren-call-params'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
Code clean-up. * rs/cocci-de-paren-call-params: coccinelle: remove parentheses that become unnecessary
2017-10-05Merge branch 'rs/cleanup-strbuf-users'Libravatar Junio C Hamano5-12/+8
Code clean-up. * rs/cleanup-strbuf-users: graph: use strbuf_addchars() to add spaces use strbuf_addstr() for adding strings to strbufs path: use strbuf_add_real_path()
2017-10-05Merge branch 'rs/resolve-ref-optional-result'Libravatar Junio C Hamano7-20/+9
Code clean-up. * rs/resolve-ref-optional-result: refs: pass NULL to resolve_refdup() if hash is not needed refs: pass NULL to refs_resolve_refdup() if hash is not needed
2017-10-05Merge branch 'er/fast-import-dump-refs-on-checkpoint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+145
The checkpoint command "git fast-import" did not flush updates to refs and marks unless at least one object was created since the last checkpoint, which has been corrected, as these things can happen without any new object getting created. * er/fast-import-dump-refs-on-checkpoint: fast-import: checkpoint: dump branches/tags/marks even if object_count==0
2017-10-05ref-filter.c: pass empty-string as NULL to atom parsersLibravatar Taylor Blau2-1/+10
Peff points out that different atom parsers handle the empty "sub-argument" list differently. An example of this is the format "%(refname:)". Since callers often use `string_list_split` (which splits the empty string with any delimiter as a 1-ary string_list containing the empty string), this makes handling empty sub-argument strings non-ergonomic. Let's fix this by declaring that atom parser implementations must not care about distinguishing between the empty string "%(refname:)" and no sub-arguments "%(refname)". Current code aborts, either with "unrecognised arg" (e.g. "refname:") or "does not take args" (e.g. "body:") as an error message. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04strbuf doc: reuse after strbuf_release is fineLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+9
strbuf_release leaves the strbuf in a valid, initialized state, so there is no need to call strbuf_init after it. Moreover, this is not likely to change in the future: strbuf_release leaving the strbuf in a valid state has been easy to maintain and has been very helpful for Git's robustness and simplicity (e.g., preventing use-after-free vulnerabilities). Document the semantics so the next generation of Git developers can become familiar with them without reading the implementation. It is still not advisable to call strbuf_release too often because it is wasteful, so add a note pointing to strbuf_reset for that. The same semantics apply to strbuf_detach. Add a similar note to its docstring to make that clear. Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04branch: reset instead of release a strbufLibravatar Stefan Beller1-2/+3
Our documentation advises to not re-use a strbuf, after strbuf_release has been called on it. Use the proper reset instead. Currently 'strbuf_release' releases and re-initializes the strbuf, so it is safe, but slow. 'strbuf_reset' only resets the internal length variable, such that this could also be accounted for as a micro-optimization. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04sub-process: use child_process.args instead of child_process.argvLibravatar Johannes Sixt1-2/+1
Currently the argv is only allocated on the stack, and then assigned to process->argv. When the start_subprocess function goes out of scope, the local argv variable is eliminated from the stack, but the pointer is still kept around in process->argv. Much later when we try to access the same process->argv in finish_command, this leads us to access a memory location that no longer contains what we want. As argv0 is only used for printing errors, this is not easily noticed in normal git operations. However when running t0021-conversion.sh through valgrind, valgrind rightfully complains: ==21024== Invalid read of size 8 ==21024== at 0x2ACF64: finish_command (run-command.c:869) ==21024== by 0x2D6B18: subprocess_exit_handler (sub-process.c:72) ==21024== by 0x2AB41E: cleanup_children (run-command.c:45) ==21024== by 0x2AB526: cleanup_children_on_exit (run-command.c:81) ==21024== by 0x54AD487: __run_exit_handlers (in /usr/lib/libc-2.26.so) ==21024== by 0x54AD4D9: exit (in /usr/lib/libc-2.26.so) ==21024== by 0x11A9EF: handle_builtin (git.c:550) ==21024== by 0x11ABCC: run_argv (git.c:602) ==21024== by 0x11AD8E: cmd_main (git.c:679) ==21024== by 0x1BF125: main (common-main.c:43) ==21024== Address 0x1ffeffec00 is on thread 1's stack ==21024== 1504 bytes below stack pointer ==21024== These days, the child_process structure has its own args array, and the standard way to set up its argv[] is to use that one, instead of assigning to process->argv to point at an array that is outside. Use that facility automatically fixes this issue. Reported-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04http-push: fix construction of hex value from pathLibravatar Thomas Gummerer1-1/+1
The get_oid_hex_from_objpath takes care of creating a oid from a pathname. It does this by memcpy'ing the first two bytes of the path to the "hex" string, then skipping the '/', and then copying the rest of the path to the "hex" string. Currently it fails to increase the pointer to the hex string, so the second memcpy invocation just mashes over what was copied in the first one, and leaves the last two bytes in the string uninitialized. This breaks valgrind in t5540, although the test passes without valgrind: ==5490== Use of uninitialised value of size 8 ==5490== at 0x13C6B5: hexval (cache.h:1238) ==5490== by 0x13C6DB: hex2chr (cache.h:1247) ==5490== by 0x13C734: get_sha1_hex (hex.c:42) ==5490== by 0x13C78E: get_oid_hex (hex.c:53) ==5490== by 0x118BDA: get_oid_hex_from_objpath (http-push.c:1023) ==5490== by 0x118C92: process_ls_object (http-push.c:1038) ==5490== by 0x118E5B: handle_remote_ls_ctx (http-push.c:1077) ==5490== by 0x118227: xml_end_tag (http-push.c:815) ==5490== by 0x50C1448: ??? (in /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.6.6) ==5490== by 0x50C221B: ??? (in /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.6.6) ==5490== by 0x50BFBF2: ??? (in /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.6.6) ==5490== by 0x50C0B24: ??? (in /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.6.6) ==5490== Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation ==5490== at 0x118B63: get_oid_hex_from_objpath (http-push.c:1012) ==5490== Fix this by correctly incrementing the pointer to the "hex" variable, so the first two bytes are left untouched by the memcpy call, and the last two bytes are correctly initialized. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04path.c: fix uninitialized memory accessLibravatar Jeff King1-5/+4
In cleanup_path we're passing in a char array, run a memcmp on it, and run through it without ever checking if something is in the array in the first place. This can lead us to access uninitialized memory, for example in t5541-http-push-smart.sh test 7, when run under valgrind: ==4423== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==4423== at 0x242FA9: cleanup_path (path.c:35) ==4423== by 0x242FA9: mkpath (path.c:456) ==4423== by 0x256CC7: refname_match (refs.c:364) ==4423== by 0x26C181: count_refspec_match (remote.c:1015) ==4423== by 0x26C181: match_explicit_lhs (remote.c:1126) ==4423== by 0x26C181: check_push_refs (remote.c:1409) ==4423== by 0x2ABB4D: transport_push (transport.c:870) ==4423== by 0x186703: push_with_options (push.c:332) ==4423== by 0x18746D: do_push (push.c:409) ==4423== by 0x18746D: cmd_push (push.c:566) ==4423== by 0x1183E0: run_builtin (git.c:352) ==4423== by 0x11973E: handle_builtin (git.c:539) ==4423== by 0x11973E: run_argv (git.c:593) ==4423== by 0x11973E: main (git.c:698) ==4423== Uninitialised value was created by a heap allocation ==4423== at 0x4C2CD8F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==4423== by 0x4C2F195: realloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==4423== by 0x2C196B: xrealloc (wrapper.c:137) ==4423== by 0x29A30B: strbuf_grow (strbuf.c:66) ==4423== by 0x29A30B: strbuf_vaddf (strbuf.c:277) ==4423== by 0x242F9F: mkpath (path.c:454) ==4423== by 0x256CC7: refname_match (refs.c:364) ==4423== by 0x26C181: count_refspec_match (remote.c:1015) ==4423== by 0x26C181: match_explicit_lhs (remote.c:1126) ==4423== by 0x26C181: check_push_refs (remote.c:1409) ==4423== by 0x2ABB4D: transport_push (transport.c:870) ==4423== by 0x186703: push_with_options (push.c:332) ==4423== by 0x18746D: do_push (push.c:409) ==4423== by 0x18746D: cmd_push (push.c:566) ==4423== by 0x1183E0: run_builtin (git.c:352) ==4423== by 0x11973E: handle_builtin (git.c:539) ==4423== by 0x11973E: run_argv (git.c:593) ==4423== by 0x11973E: main (git.c:698) ==4423== Avoid this by using skip_prefix(), which knows not to go beyond the end of the string. Reported-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04test-stringlist: avoid buffer underrun when sorting nothingLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Check if the strbuf containing data to sort is empty before attempting to trim a trailing newline character. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04setup: update error message to be more meaningfulLibravatar Kaartic Sivaraam1-1/+1
The error message shown when a flag is found when expecting a filename wasn't clear as it didn't communicate what was wrong using the 'suitable' words in *all* cases. $ git ls-files README.md test-file Correct case, $ git rev-parse README.md --flags README.md --flags fatal: bad flag '--flags' used after filename Incorrect case, $ git grep "some random regex" -n fatal: bad flag '-n' used after filename The above case is incorrect as "some random regex" isn't a filename in this case. Change the error message to be general and communicative. This results in the following output, $ git rev-parse README.md --flags README.md --flags fatal: option '--flags' must come before non-option arguments $ git grep "some random regex" -n fatal: option '-n' must come before non-option arguments Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04branch: change the error messages to be more meaningfulLibravatar Kaartic Sivaraam1-3/+3
The error messages shown when the branch command is misused by supplying it wrong number of parameters wasn't meaningful. That's because it used the the phrase "too many branches" assuming all parameters to be "valid" branch names. It's not always the case as exemplified below, $ git branch foo * master $ git branch -m foo foo old fatal: too many branches for a rename operation Change the messages to be more general thus making no assumptions about the "parameters". Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04Merge branch 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint' into jk/ui-color-always-to-autoLibravatar Junio C Hamano19-99/+101
* jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint: color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config provide --color option for all ref-filter users t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always t3203: drop "always" color test t6006: drop "always" color config tests t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test t7508: use test_terminal for color output t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
2017-10-04t7301: use test_terminal to check colorLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+3
This test wants to confirm that "clean -i" shows color output. Using test_terminal gives us a more realistic environment than "color.ui=always", and prepares us for the behavior of "always" changing in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04t4015: use --color with --color-movedLibravatar Jeff King1-13/+12
The tests for --color-moved write their output to a file, but doing so suppresses color output under "auto". Right now this is solved by running the whole script under "color.diff=always". In preparation for the behavior of "always" changing, let's explicitly enable color. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04color: make "always" the same as "auto" in configLibravatar Jeff King3-19/+28
It can be handy to use `--color=always` (or it's synonym `--color`) on the command-line to convince a command to produce color even if it's stdout isn't going to the terminal or a pager. What's less clear is whether it makes sense to set config variables like color.ui to `always`. For a one-shot like: git -c color.ui=always ... it's potentially useful (especially if the command doesn't directly support the `--color` option). But setting `always` in your on-disk config is much muddier, as you may be surprised when piped commands generate colors (and send them to whatever is consuming the pipe downstream). Some people have done this anyway, because: 1. The documentation for color.ui makes it sound like using `always` is a good idea, when you almost certainly want `auto`. 2. Traditionally not every command (and especially not plumbing) respected color.ui in the first place. So the confusion came up less frequently than it might have. The situation changed in 136c8c8b8f (color: check color.ui in git_default_config(), 2017-07-13), which negated point (2): now scripts using only plumbing commands (like add-interactive) are broken by this setting. That commit was fixing real issues (e.g., by making `color.ui=never` work, since `auto` is the default), so we don't want to just revert it. We could turn `always` into a noop in plumbing commands, but that creates a hard-to-explain inconsistency between the plumbing and other commands. Instead, let's just turn `always` into `auto` for all config. This does break the "one-shot" config shown above, but again, we're probably better to have simple and consistent rules than to try to special-case command-line config. There is one place where `always` should retain its meaning: on the command line, `--color=always` should continue to be the same as `--color`, overriding any isatty checks. Since the command-line parser also depends on git_config_colorbool(), we can use the existence of the "var" string to deterine whether we are serving the command-line or the config. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04provide --color option for all ref-filter usersLibravatar Jeff King6-4/+16
When ref-filter learned about want_color() in 11b087adfd (ref-filter: consult want_color() before emitting colors, 2017-07-13), it became useful to be able to turn colors off and on for specific commands. For git-branch, you can do so with --color/--no-color. But for git-for-each-ref and git-tag, the other users of ref-filter, you have no option except to tweak the "color.ui" config setting. Let's give both of these commands the usual color command-line options. This is a bit more obvious as a method for overriding the config. And it also prepares us for the behavior of "always" changing (so that we are still left with a way of forcing color when our output goes to a non-terminal). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=alwaysLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+2
To test the color output, we must convince "git branch" to write colors to a non-terminal. We do that now by setting the color config to "always". In preparation for the behavior of "always" changing, let's switch to using the "--color" command-line option, which is more direct. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>