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2015-06-05The first half of the seventh batch for 2.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+14
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-05Merge branch 'bc/object-id'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id". * bc/object-id: (56 commits) struct ref_lock: convert old_sha1 member to object_id warn_if_dangling_symref(): convert local variable "junk" to object_id each_ref_fn_adapter(): remove adapter rev_list_insert_ref(): remove unneeded arguments rev_list_insert_ref_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid mark_complete(): remove unneeded arguments mark_complete_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid clear_marks(): rewrite to take an object_id argument mark_complete(): rewrite to take an object_id argument send_ref(): convert local variable "peeled" to object_id upload-pack: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments find_symref(): convert local variable "unused" to object_id find_symref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument write_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument write_refs_to_temp_dir(): convert local variable sha1 to object_id submodule: rewrite to take an object_id argument shallow: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments handle_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument add_info_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument handle_one_reflog(): rewrite to take an object_id argument ...
2015-06-05Merge branch 'jk/at-push-sha1'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-4/+31
Introduce <branch>@{push} short-hand to denote the remote-tracking branch that tracks the branch at the remote the <branch> would be pushed to. * jk/at-push-sha1: for-each-ref: accept "%(push)" format for-each-ref: use skip_prefix instead of starts_with sha1_name: implement @{push} shorthand sha1_name: refactor interpret_upstream_mark sha1_name: refactor upstream_mark remote.c: add branch_get_push remote.c: return upstream name from stat_tracking_info remote.c: untangle error logic in branch_get_upstream remote.c: report specific errors from branch_get_upstream remote.c: introduce branch_get_upstream helper remote.c: hoist read_config into remote_get_1 remote.c: provide per-branch pushremote name remote.c: hoist branch.*.remote lookup out of remote_get_1 remote.c: drop "remote" pointer from "struct branch" remote.c: refactor setup of branch->merge list remote.c: drop default_remote_name variable
2015-06-01Sixth batch for 2.5 cycleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+50
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-01Merge branch 'fm/fetch-raw-sha1'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-3/+17
"git upload-pack" that serves "git fetch" can be told to serve commits that are not at the tip of any ref, as long as they are reachable from a ref, with uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant configuration variable. * fm/fetch-raw-sha1: upload-pack: optionally allow fetching reachable sha1 upload-pack: prepare to extend allow-tip-sha1-in-want config.txt: clarify allowTipSHA1InWant with camelCase
2015-06-01Merge branch 'sg/help-group'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+7
Group list of commands shown by "git help" along the workflow elements to help early learners. * sg/help-group: help: respect new common command grouping command-list.txt: drop the "common" tag generate-cmdlist: parse common group commands command-list.txt: add the common groups block command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common groups" section
2015-06-01Merge branch 'mm/log-format-raw-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+14
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated concepts. * mm/log-format-raw-doc: Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
2015-06-01Merge branch 'dt/cat-file-follow-symlinks'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+98
"git cat-file --batch(-check)" learned the "--follow-symlinks" option that follows an in-tree symbolic link when asked about an object via extended SHA-1 syntax, e.g. HEAD:RelNotes that points at Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt. With the new option, the command behaves as if HEAD:Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt was given as input instead. * dt/cat-file-follow-symlinks: cat-file: add --follow-symlinks to --batch sha1_name: get_sha1_with_context learns to follow symlinks tree-walk: learn get_tree_entry_follow_symlinks
2015-06-01Merge branch 'mc/commit-doc-grammofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Doc grammar fix. * mc/commit-doc-grammofix: Documentation/git-commit: grammofix
2015-06-01Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request. Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a request first into core (to a reasonable limit). * jk/http-backend-deadlock: http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer t5551: factor out tag creation http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-05-26Sync with 2.4.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+47
2015-05-26Git 2.4.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+47
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-26Merge branch 'jc/hash-object' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+8
"hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to take a really long object type name. * jc/hash-object: write_sha1_file(): do not use a separate sha1[] array t1007: add hash-object --literally tests hash-object --literally: fix buffer overrun with extra-long object type git-hash-object.txt: document --literally option
2015-05-26Fifth batch for 2.5 cycleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+28
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-26Merge branch 'nd/untracked-cache'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-1/+80
Teach the index to optionally remember already seen untracked files to speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft. * nd/untracked-cache: (24 commits) git-status.txt: advertisement for untracked cache untracked cache: guard and disable on system changes mingw32: add uname() t7063: tests for untracked cache update-index: test the system before enabling untracked cache update-index: manually enable or disable untracked cache status: enable untracked cache untracked-cache: temporarily disable with $GIT_DISABLE_UNTRACKED_CACHE untracked cache: mark index dirty if untracked cache is updated untracked cache: print stats with $GIT_TRACE_UNTRACKED_STATS untracked cache: avoid racy timestamps read-cache.c: split racy stat test to a separate function untracked cache: invalidate at index addition or removal untracked cache: load from UNTR index extension untracked cache: save to an index extension ewah: add convenient wrapper ewah_serialize_strbuf() untracked cache: don't open non-existent .gitignore untracked cache: mark what dirs should be recursed/saved untracked cache: record/validate dir mtime and reuse cached output untracked cache: make a wrapper around {open,read,close}dir() ...
2015-05-26Merge branch 'pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff configuration, but it didn't. * pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff: pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
2015-05-25Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3' into jk/http-backend-deadlockLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3: http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer t5551: factor out tag creation http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-05-25Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2' into jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2: http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer t5551: factor out tag creation http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-05-25http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to bufferLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+9
When http-backend spawns "upload-pack" to do ref negotiation, it streams the http request body to upload-pack, who then streams the http response back to the client as it reads. In theory, git can go full-duplex; the client can consume our response while it is still sending the request. In practice, however, HTTP is a half-duplex protocol. Even if our client is ready to read and write simultaneously, we may have other HTTP infrastructure in the way, including the webserver that spawns our CGI, or any intermediate proxies. In at least one documented case[1], this leads to deadlock when trying a fetch over http. What happens is basically: 1. Apache proxies the request to the CGI, http-backend. 2. http-backend gzip-inflates the data and sends the result to upload-pack. 3. upload-pack acts on the data and generates output over the pipe back to Apache. Apache isn't reading because it's busy writing (step 1). This works fine most of the time, because the upload-pack output ends up in a system pipe buffer, and Apache reads it as soon as it finishes writing. But if both the request and the response exceed the system pipe buffer size, then we deadlock (Apache blocks writing to http-backend, http-backend blocks writing to upload-pack, and upload-pack blocks writing to Apache). We need to break the deadlock by spooling either the input or the output. In this case, it's ideal to spool the input, because Apache does not start reading either stdout _or_ stderr until we have consumed all of the input. So until we do so, we cannot even get an error message out to the client. The solution is fairly straight-forward: we read the request body into an in-memory buffer in http-backend, freeing up Apache, and then feed the data ourselves to upload-pack. But there are a few important things to note: 1. We limit the in-memory buffer to prevent an obvious denial-of-service attack. This is a new hard limit on requests, but it's unlikely to come into play. The default value is 10MB, which covers even the ridiculous 100,000-ref negotation in the included test (that actually caps out just over 5MB). But it's configurable on the off chance that you don't mind spending some extra memory to make even ridiculous requests work. 2. We must take care only to buffer when we have to. For pushes, the incoming packfile may be of arbitrary size, and we should connect the input directly to receive-pack. There's no deadlock problem here, though, because we do not produce any output until the whole packfile has been read. For upload-pack's initial ref advertisement, we similarly do not need to buffer. Even though we may generate a lot of output, there is no request body at all (i.e., it is a GET, not a POST). [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269020 Test-adapted-from: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25each_ref_fn: change to take an object_id parameterLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+1
Change typedef each_ref_fn to take a "const struct object_id *oid" parameter instead of "const unsigned char *sha1". To aid this transition, implement an adapter that can be used to wrap old-style functions matching the old typedef, which is now called "each_ref_sha1_fn"), and make such functions callable via the new interface. This requires the old function and its cb_data to be wrapped in a "struct each_ref_fn_sha1_adapter", and that object to be used as the cb_data for an adapter function, each_ref_fn_adapter(). This is an enormous diff, but most of it consists of simple, mechanical changes to the sites that call any of the "for_each_ref" family of functions. Subsequent to this change, the call sites can be rewritten one by one to use the new interface. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22upload-pack: optionally allow fetching reachable sha1Libravatar Fredrik Medley3-1/+15
With uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant configuration option set on the server side, "git fetch" can make a request with a "want" line that names an object that has not been advertised (likely to have been obtained out of band or from a submodule pointer). Only objects reachable from the branch tips, i.e. the union of advertised branches and branches hidden by transfer.hideRefs, will be processed. Note that there is an associated cost of having to walk back the history to check the reachability. This feature can be used when obtaining the content of a certain commit, for which the sha1 is known, without the need of cloning the whole repository, especially if a shallow fetch is used. Useful cases are e.g. repositories containing large files in the history, fetching only the needed data for a submodule checkout, when sharing a sha1 without telling which exact branch it belongs to and in Gerrit, if you think in terms of commits instead of change numbers. (The Gerrit case has already been solved through allowTipSHA1InWant as every Gerrit change has a ref.) Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22Fourth batch for 2.5 cycleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+75
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22Merge branch 'ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-9/+9
Doc consistency updates. * ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file: doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile" pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile" git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile" git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
2015-05-22Merge branch 'mh/lockfile-retry'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Instead of dying immediately upon failing to obtain a lock, retry after a short while with backoff. * mh/lockfile-retry: lock_packed_refs(): allow retries when acquiring the packed-refs lock lockfile: allow file locking to be retried with a timeout
2015-05-22Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano19-102/+107
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative formatter) happier. * jk/asciidoc-markup-fix: doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[] doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces doc: convert \--option to --option doc/add: reformat `--edit` option doc: fix length of underlined section-title doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}" doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-05-22Merge branch 'jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's AsciiDoc renderer. * jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix: doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace
2015-05-22Merge branch 'ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's AsciiDoc renderer. * ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix: doc: fix unmatched code fences
2015-05-22Merge branch 'ls/http-ssl-cipher-list'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
Introduce http.<url>.SSLCipherList configuration variable to tweak the list of cipher suite to be used with libcURL when talking with https:// sites. * ls/http-ssl-cipher-list: http: add support for specifying an SSL cipher list
2015-05-22for-each-ref: accept "%(push)" formatLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+6
Just as we have "%(upstream)" to report the "@{upstream}" for each ref, this patch adds "%(push)" to match "@{push}". It supports the same tracking format modifiers as upstream (because you may want to know, for example, which branches have commits to push). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22sha1_name: implement @{push} shorthandLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+25
In a triangular workflow, each branch may have two distinct points of interest: the @{upstream} that you normally pull from, and the destination that you normally push to. There isn't a shorthand for the latter, but it's useful to have. For instance, you may want to know which commits you haven't pushed yet: git log @{push}.. Or as a more complicated example, imagine that you normally pull changes from origin/master (which you set as your @{upstream}), and push changes to your own personal fork (e.g., as myfork/topic). You may push to your fork from multiple machines, requiring you to integrate the changes from the push destination, rather than upstream. With this patch, you can just do: git rebase @{push} rather than typing out the full name. The heavy lifting is all done by branch_get_push; here we just wire it up to the "@{push}" syntax. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Libravatar Patrick Steinhardt2-3/+3
Fix remaining instances where "pack-file" is used instead of "packfile". Some places remain where we still use "pack-file", This is the case when we explicitly refer to a file with a ".pack" extension as opposed to a data source providing a pack data stream. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21config.txt: clarify allowTipSHA1InWant with camelCaseLibravatar Fredrik Medley1-2/+2
Most of the options in config.txt are camelCase. Improve the readability for allowtipsha1inwant by changing to allowTipSHA1InWant. Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21command-list.txt: add the common groups blockLibravatar Sébastien Guimmara1-1/+3
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to display common commands in groups rather than alphabetically. As a first step, define the groups in a new block, and then assign a group to each common command. Add a block at the beginning of command-list.txt: init start a working area (see also: git help tutorial) worktree work on the current change (see also:[...] info examine the history and state (see also: git [...] history grow, mark and tweak your history remote collaborate (see also: git help workflows) storing information about common commands group, then map each common command to a group: git-add mainporcelain common worktree Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Emma Jane Hogbin Westby <emma.westby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common groups" sectionLibravatar Eric Sunshine1-0/+4
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to classify common commands by group. Toward this end, a subsequent patch will add a new "common groups" section to command-list.txt preceding the actual command list. As preparation, teach existing command-list.txt parsing machinery, which doesn't care about grouping, to skip over this upcoming "common groups" section. Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21remote.c: drop "remote" pointer from "struct branch"Libravatar Jeff King1-4/+0
When we create each branch struct, we fill in the "remote_name" field from the config, and then fill in the actual "remote" field (with a "struct remote") based on that name. However, it turns out that nobody really cares about the latter field. The only two sites that access it at all are: 1. git-merge, which uses it to notice when the branch does not have a remote defined. But we can easily replace this with looking at remote_name instead. 2. remote.c itself, when setting up the @{upstream} merge config. But we don't need to save the "remote" in the "struct branch" for that; we can just look it up for the duration of the operation. So there is no need to have both fields; they are redundant with each other (the struct remote contains the name, or you can look up the struct from the name). It would be nice to simplify this, especially as we are going to add matching pushremote config in a future patch (and it would be nice to keep them consistent). So which one do we keep and which one do we get rid of? If we had a lot of callers accessing the struct, it would be more efficient to keep it (since you have to do a lookup to go from the name to the struct, but not vice versa). But we don't have a lot of callers; we have exactly one, so efficiency doesn't matter. We can decide this based on simplicity and readability. And the meaning of the struct value is somewhat unclear. Is it always the remote matching remote_name? If remote_name is NULL (i.e., no per-branch config), does the struct fall back to the "origin" remote, or is it also NULL? These questions will get even more tricky with pushremotes, whose fallback behavior is more complicated. So let's just store the name, which pretty clearly represents the branch.*.remote config. Any lookup or fallback behavior can then be implemented in helper functions. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --rawLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+4
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20cat-file: add --follow-symlinks to --batchLibravatar David Turner1-1/+98
This wires the in-repo-symlink following code through to the cat-file builtin. In the event of an out-of-repo link, cat-file will print the link in a new format. Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19Documentation/git-commit: grammofixLibravatar Michael Coleman1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Michael Coleman <michael.karl.coleman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19Third batch for 2.5 cycleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+81
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19Merge branch 'kn/cat-file-literally'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Add the "--allow-unknown-type" option to "cat-file" to allow inspecting loose objects of an experimental or a broken type. * kn/cat-file-literally: t1006: add tests for git cat-file --allow-unknown-type cat-file: teach cat-file a '--allow-unknown-type' option cat-file: make the options mutually exclusive sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type
2015-05-19Merge branch 'jc/merge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
"git merge FETCH_HEAD" learned that the previous "git fetch" could be to create an Octopus merge, i.e. recording multiple branches that are not marked as "not-for-merge"; this allows us to lose an old style invocation "git merge <msg> HEAD $commits..." in the implementation of "git pull" script; the old style syntax can now be deprecated. * jc/merge: merge: deprecate 'git merge <message> HEAD <commit>' syntax merge: handle FETCH_HEAD internally merge: decide if we auto-generate the message early in collect_parents() merge: make collect_parents() auto-generate the merge message merge: extract prepare_merge_message() logic out merge: narrow scope of merge_names merge: split reduce_parents() out of collect_parents() merge: clarify collect_parents() logic merge: small leakfix and code simplification merge: do not check argc to determine number of remote heads merge: clarify "pulling into void" special case t5520: test pulling an octopus into an unborn branch t5520: style fixes merge: simplify code flow merge: test the top-level merge driver
2015-05-19Merge branch 'fg/document-commit-message-stripping'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+7
* fg/document-commit-message-stripping: Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log message
2015-05-18Documentation/log: clarify what --raw meansLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+10
There are several "raw formats", and describing --raw as "Generate the raw format" in the documentation for git-log seems to imply that it generates the raw *log* format. Clarify the wording by saying "raw diff format" explicitly, and make a special-case for "git log": "git log --raw" does not just change the format, it shows something which is not shown by default. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ffLibravatar Paul Tan1-1/+1
Since b814da8 (pull: add pull.ff configuration, 2014-01-15), running git-pull with the configuration pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is equivalent to passing --no-ff and --ff-only to git-merge. However, if pull.ff=true, no switch is passed to git-merge. This leads to the confusing behavior where pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is able to override merge.ff, while pull.ff=true is unable to. Fix this by adding the --ff switch if pull.ff=true, and add a test to catch future regressions. Furthermore, clarify in the documentation that pull.ff overrides merge.ff. Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"Libravatar Patrick Steinhardt1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Libravatar Patrick Steinhardt1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Libravatar Patrick Steinhardt1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14lock_packed_refs(): allow retries when acquiring the packed-refs lockLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+6
Currently, there is only one attempt to acquire any lockfile, and if the lock is held by another process, the locking attempt fails immediately. This is not such a limitation for loose reference files. First, they don't take long to rewrite. Second, most reference updates have a known "old" value, so if another process is updating a reference at the same moment that we are trying to lock it, then probably the expected "old" value will not longer be valid, and the update will fail anyway. But these arguments do not hold for packed-refs: * The packed-refs file can be large and take significant time to rewrite. * Many references are stored in a single packed-refs file, so it could be that the other process was changing a different reference than the one that we are interested in. Therefore, it is much more likely for there to be spurious lock conflicts in connection to the packed-refs file, resulting in unnecessary command failures. So, if the first attempt to lock the packed-refs file fails, continue retrying for a configurable length of time before giving up. The default timeout is 1 second. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]Libravatar Jeff King1-2/+6
The former seems to just be syntactic sugar for the latter. And as it's sugar that AsciiDoctor doesn't understand, it would be nice to avoid it. Since there are only two spots, and the resulting source is not significantly harder to read, it's worth doing. Note that this does slightly affect the generated HTML (it has an extra newline), but the rendered result for both HTML and docbook should be the same (since the newline is not syntactically significant there). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-13Sync with 2.4.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+42
* maint: Git 2.4.1