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2008-11-18builtin-branch: use strbuf in rename_branch()Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-18/+21
In case the length of branch name is greather then PATH_MAX-11, we write to unallocated memory otherwise. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-18builtin-branch: use strbuf in fill_tracking_info()Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-10/+8
This is just about using the API, though in case of ~ 10^100 commits, this would fix the problem of writing to unallocated memory as well. ;-) Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-18builtin-branch: use strbuf in delete_branches()Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-4/+4
In case the length of branch name is greather then PATH_MAX-7, we write to unallocated memory otherwise. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-05Merge branch 'mv/maint-branch-m-symref'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* mv/maint-branch-m-symref: update-ref --no-deref -d: handle the case when the pointed ref is packed git branch -m: forbid renaming of a symref Fix git update-ref --no-deref -d. rename_ref(): handle the case when the reflog of a ref does not exist Fix git branch -m for symrefs.
2008-10-26Fix git branch -m for symrefs.Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-1/+1
This had two problems with symrefs. First, it copied the actual sha1 instead of the "pointer", second it failed to remove the old ref after a successful rename. Given that till now delete_ref() always dereferenced symrefs, a new parameters has been introduced to delete_ref() to allow deleting refs without a dereference. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-12Replace calls to strbuf_init(&foo, 0) with STRBUF_INIT initializerLibravatar Brandon Casey1-2/+1
Many call sites use strbuf_init(&foo, 0) to initialize local strbuf variable "foo" which has not been accessed since its declaration. These can be replaced with a static initialization using the STRBUF_INIT macro which is just as readable, saves a function call, and takes up fewer lines. Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-07-27builtin-branch: fix -v for --[no-]mergedLibravatar Lars Hjemli1-0/+15
After the optimization to --[no-]merged logic, the calculation of the width of the longest refname to be shown might become inaccurate (since the matching against merge_filter is performed after adding refs to ref_list). This patch forces a recalculation of maxwidth when it might be needed. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-27builtin-branch: factor out merge_filter matchingLibravatar Lars Hjemli1-5/+13
The logic for checking commits against merge_filter will be reused when we recalculate the maxwidth of refnames. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-27builtin-branch: remove duplicated codeLibravatar Lars Hjemli1-7/+2
The previous optimization to --[no-]merged ended up with some duplicated code which this patch removes. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-23builtin-branch.c: optimize --merged and --no-mergedLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-21/+38
"git branch --no-merged $commit" used to compute the merge base between the tip of each and every branch with the named $commit, but this was wasteful when you have many branches. Inside append_ref() we literally ran has_commit() between the tip of the branch and the merge_filter_ref. Instead, we can let the revision machinery traverse the history as if we are running: $ git rev-list --branches --not $commit by queueing the tips of branches we encounter as positive refs (this mimicks the "--branches" option in the above command line) and then appending the merge_filter_ref commit as a negative one, and finally calling prepare_revision_walk() to limit the list.. After the traversal is done, branch tips that are reachable from $commit are painted UNINTERESTING; they are already fully contained in $commit (i.e. --merged). Tips that are not painted UNINTERESTING still have commits that are not reachable from $commit, thus "--no-merged" will show them. With an artificial repository that has "master" and 1000 test-$i branches where they were created by "git branch test-$i master~$i": (with patch) $ /usr/bin/time git-branch --no-merged master >/dev/null 0.12user 0.02system 0:00.15elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+1588minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ /usr/bin/time git-branch --no-merged test-200 >/dev/null 0.15user 0.03system 0:00.18elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+1711minor)pagefaults 0swaps (without patch) $ /usr/bin/time git-branch --no-merged master >/dev/null 0.69user 0.03system 0:00.72elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+2229minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ /usr/bin/time git-branch --no-merged test-200 >/dev/null 0.58user 0.03system 0:00.61elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+2248minor)pagefaults 0swaps Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-23builtin-branch.c: remove unused code in append_ref() callback functionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+3
We let for_each_ref() to feed all refs to append_ref() but we are only ever interested in local or remote tracking branches. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-16Merge branch 'sb/dashless'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
* sb/dashless: Make usage strings dash-less t/: Use "test_must_fail git" instead of "! git" t/test-lib.sh: exit with small negagive int is ok with test_must_fail Conflicts: builtin-blame.c builtin-mailinfo.c builtin-mailsplit.c builtin-shortlog.c git-am.sh t/t4150-am.sh t/t4200-rerere.sh
2008-07-14Merge branch 'jc/branch-merged'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-12/+50
* jc/branch-merged: branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commit branch --contains: default to HEAD parse-options: add PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT flag Conflicts: Documentation/git-branch.txt
2008-07-13Make usage strings dash-lessLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-4/+4
When you misuse a git command, you are shown the usage string. But this is currently shown in the dashed form. So if you just copy what you see, it will not work, when the dashed form is no longer supported. This patch makes git commands show the dash-less version. For shell scripts that do not specify OPTIONS_SPEC, git-sh-setup.sh generates a dash-less usage string now. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-09branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commitLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+42
"git-branch --merged" is a handy way to list all the branches that have already been merged to the current branch, but it did not allow checking against anything but the current branch. Having to switch branches only to list the branches that are merged with another branch made the feature practically useless. This updates the option parser so that "git branch --merged next" is accepted when you are on 'master' branch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-09branch --contains: default to HEADLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+8
We used to require the name of the commit to limit the branches shown to the --contains option, but more recent --merged/--no-meregd defaults to HEAD (and they do not allow arbitrary commit, which is a separate issue). This teaches --contains to default to HEAD when no parameter is given. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-06branch -r -v: do not spit out garbageLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
The codepath to emit relationship between the branch and what it tracks forgot to initialize a string buffer stat[] to empty when showing a tracking branch. This moves the emptying so that the buffer starts as empty and stays so when no information is added to fix this issue. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-02git-branch -v: show the remote tracking statisticsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+25
This teaches "git branch -v" to insert the remote tracking statistics in brackets, just before the one-liner commit log message for the branch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-14Provide git_config with a callback-data parameterLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-3/+3
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify global variables. With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped that this will help the libification effort. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-20git-branch: add support for --merged and --no-mergedLibravatar Lars Hjemli1-1/+15
These options filter the output from git branch to only include branches whose tip is either merged or not merged into HEAD. The use-case for these options is when working with integration of branches from many remotes: `git branch --no-merged -a` will show a nice list of merge candidates while `git branch --merged -a` will show the progress of your integration work. Also, a plain `git branch --merged` is a quick way to find local branches which you might want to delete. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-27Merge branch 'jm/free'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+2
* jm/free: Avoid unnecessary "if-before-free" tests. Conflicts: builtin-branch.c
2008-02-27Merge branch 'js/branch-track'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+5
* js/branch-track: doc: documentation update for the branch track changes branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branches Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-branch.txt Documentation/git-checkout.txt builtin-branch.c cache.h t/t7201-co.sh
2008-02-27Merge branch 'db/checkout'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-136/+2
* db/checkout: (21 commits) checkout: error out when index is unmerged even with -m checkout: show progress when checkout takes long time while switching branches Add merge-subtree back checkout: updates to tracking report builtin-checkout.c: Remove unused prefix arguments in switch_branches path checkout: work from a subdirectory checkout: tone down the "forked status" diagnostic messages Clean up reporting differences on branch switch builtin-checkout.c: fix possible usage segfault checkout: notice when the switched branch is behind or forked Build in checkout Move code to clean up after a branch change to branch.c Library function to check for unmerged index entries Use diff -u instead of diff in t7201 Move create_branch into a library file Build-in merge-recursive Add "skip_unmerged" option to unpack_trees. Discard "deleted" cache entries after using them to update the working tree Send unpack-trees debugging output to stderr Add flag to make unpack_trees() not print errors. ... Conflicts: Makefile
2008-02-22Avoid unnecessary "if-before-free" tests.Libravatar Jim Meyering1-6/+3
This change removes all obvious useless if-before-free tests. E.g., it replaces code like this: if (some_expression) free (some_expression); with the now-equivalent: free (some_expression); It is equivalent not just because POSIX has required free(NULL) to work for a long time, but simply because it has worked for so long that no reasonable porting target fails the test. Here's some evidence from nearly 1.5 years ago: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-October/031544.html FYI, the change below was prepared by running the following: git ls-files -z | xargs -0 \ perl -0x3b -pi -e \ 's/\bif\s*\(\s*(\S+?)(?:\s*!=\s*NULL)?\s*\)\s+(free\s*\(\s*\1\s*\))/$2/s' Note however, that it doesn't handle brace-enclosed blocks like "if (x) { free (x); }". But that's ok, since there were none like that in git sources. Beware: if you do use the above snippet, note that it can produce syntactically invalid C code. That happens when the affected "if"-statement has a matching "else". E.g., it would transform this if (x) free (x); else foo (); into this: free (x); else foo (); There were none of those here, either. If you're interested in automating detection of the useless tests, you might like the useless-if-before-free script in gnulib: [it *does* detect brace-enclosed free statements, and has a --name=S option to make it detect free-like functions with different names] http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=build-aux/useless-if-before-free Addendum: Remove one more (in imap-send.c), spotted by Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branchesLibravatar Jay Soffian1-8/+5
"git branch" and "git checkout -b" now honor --track option even when the upstream branch is local. Previously --track was silently ignored when forking from a local branch. Also the command did not error out when --track was explicitly asked for but the forked point specified was not an existing branch (i.e. when there is no way to set up the tracking configuration), but now it correctly does. The configuration setting branch.autosetupmerge can now be set to "always", which is equivalent to using --track from the command line. Setting branch.autosetupmerge to "true" will retain the former behavior of only setting up branch.*.merge for remote upstream branches. Includes test cases for the new functionality. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-18Add color.ui variable which globally enables colorization if setLibravatar Matthias Kestenholz1-3/+7
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11builtin-branch.c: guard config parser from value=NULLLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+6
color.branch.* configuration variables expect a string value. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-09Move create_branch into a library fileLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-136/+2
You can also create branches, in exactly the same way, with checkout -b. This introduces branch.{c,h} library files for doing porcelain-level operations on branches (such as creating them with their appropriate default configuration). Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
2007-12-05git config --get-colorboolLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
This adds an option to help scripts find out color settings from the configuration file. git config --get-colorbool color.diff inspects color.diff variable, and exits with status 0 (i.e. success) if color is to be used. It exits with status 1 otherwise. If a script wants "true"/"false" answer to the standard output of the command, it can pass an additional boolean parameter to its command line, telling if its standard output is a terminal, like this: git config --get-colorbool color.diff true When called like this, the command outputs "true" to its standard output if color is to be used (i.e. "color.diff" says "always", "auto", or "true"), and "false" otherwise. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-22git-branch --contains=commitLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+54
This teaches git-branch to limit its listing to branches that are descendants to the named commit. When you are using many topic branches, you often would want to see which branch already includes a commit, so that you know which can and cannot be rewound without disrupting other people. One thing that sometimes happens to me is: * Somebody sends a patch that is a good maint material. I apply it to 'maint': $ git checkout maint $ git am -3 -s obvious-fix.patch * Then somebody else sends another patch that is possibly a good maint material, but I'd want to cook it in 'next' to be extra sure. I fork a topic from 'maint' and apply the patch: $ git checkout -b xx/maint-fix-foo $ git am -3 -s ,xx-maint-fix-foo.patch * A minor typo is found in the "obvious-fix.patch". The above happens without pushing the results out, so I can freely recover from it by amending 'maint', as long as I do not forget to rebase the topics that were forked previously. With this patch, I can do this to find out which topic branches already contain the faulty commit: $ git branch --contains=maint^ xx/maint-fix-foo so I can rebase the xx/maint-fix-foo branch before merging it to 'next'. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11Use OPT_SET_INT and OPT_BIT in builtin-branchLibravatar Pierre Habouzit1-28/+16
Also remove a spurious after-check on --abbrev (OPT__ABBREV already takes care of that) Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-04Merge branch 'jc/format-patch-encoding'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jc/format-patch-encoding: test format-patch -s: make sure MIME content type is shown as needed format-patch -s: add MIME encoding header if signer's name requires so
2007-11-03errors: "strict subset" -> "ancestor"Libravatar J. Bruce Fields1-1/+1
The term "ancestor" is a bit more intuitive (and more consistent with the documentation) than the term "strict subset". Also, remove superfluous "ref", capitalize, and add some carriage returns, changing: error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not a strict subset of local ref 'refs/heads/master'. maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first? error: failed to push to 'ssh://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/exports/git.git' to: error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not an ancestor of local 'refs/heads/master'. Maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first? error: failed to push to 'ssh://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/exports/git.git' Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-01format-patch -s: add MIME encoding header if signer's name requires soLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
When the body of the commit log message contains a non-ASCII character, format-patch correctly emitted the encoding header to mark the resulting message as such. However, if the original message was fully ASCII, the command line switch "-s" was given to add a new sign-off, and the signer's name was not ASCII only, the resulting message would have contained non-ASCII character but was not marked as such. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-29Make builtin-branch.c use parse_options.Libravatar Pierre Habouzit1-95/+52
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-09-10Rework pretty_print_commit to use strbufs instead of custom buffers.Libravatar Pierre Habouzit1-8/+7
Also remove the "len" parameter, as: (1) it was used as a max boundary, and every caller used ~0u (2) we check for final NUL no matter what, so it doesn't help for speed. As a result most of the pp_* function takes 3 arguments less, and we need a lot less local variables, this makes the code way more readable, and easier to extend if needed. This patch also fixes some spacing and cosmetic issues. This patch also fixes (as a side effect) a memory leak intoruced in builtin-archive.c at commit df4a394f (fmt was xmalloc'ed and not free'd) Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-11Re-code builtin-branch.c in UTF-8Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-11branch --track: code cleanup and saner handling of local branchesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-115/+55
This patch cleans up some complicated code, and replaces it with a cleaner version, using code from remote.[ch], which got extended a little in the process. This also enables us to fix two cases: The earlier "fix" to setup tracking only when the original ref started with "refs/remotes" is wrong. You are absolutely allowed to use a separate layout for your tracking branches. The correct fix, of course, is to set up tracking information only when there is a matching remote.<nick>.fetch line containing a colon. Another corner case was not handled properly. If two remotes write to the original ref, just warn the user and do not set up tracking. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-08branch.autosetupmerge: allow boolean values, or "all"Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-6/+12
Junio noticed that switching on autosetupmerge unilaterally started cluttering the config for local branches. That is not the original intention of branch.autosetupmerge, which was meant purely for convenience when branching off of remote branches, but that semantics got lost somewhere. If you still want that "new" behavior, you can switch branch.autosetupmerge to the value "all". Otherwise, it is interpreted as a boolean, which triggers setting up defaults _only_ when branching off of a remote branch, i.e. the originally intended behavior. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-06git-branch: default to --trackLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
"git branch --track" will setup config variables when branching from a remote branch, so that if you say "git pull" while being on that branch, it automatically fetches the correct remote, and merges the correct branch. Often people complain that this is not the default for "git branch". Make it so. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-22Merge branch 'ei/oneline+add-empty'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+11
* ei/oneline+add-empty: Fix ALLOC_GROW calls with obsolete semantics Fix ALLOC_GROW off-by-one builtin-add: simplify (and increase accuracy of) exclude handling dir_struct: add collect_ignored option Extend --pretty=oneline to cover the first paragraph, Lift 16kB limit of log message output
2007-06-13Lift 16kB limit of log message outputLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+11
Traditionally we had 16kB limit when formatting log messages for output, because it was easier to arrange for the caller to have a reasonably big buffer and pass it down without ever worrying about reallocating. This changes the calling convention of pretty_print_commit() to lift this limit. Instead of the buffer and remaining length, it now takes a pointer to the pointer that points at the allocated buffer, and another pointer to the location that stores the allocated length, and reallocates the buffer as necessary. To support the user format, the error return of interpolate() needed to be changed. It used to return a bool telling "Ok the result fits", or "Sorry, I had to truncate it". Now it returns 0 on success, and returns the size of the buffer it wants in order to fit the whole result. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-09git-branch: cleanup config file when deleting branchesLibravatar Gerrit Pape1-2/+7
When deleting branches, remove the sections referring to these branches from the config file. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
2007-06-08Missing statics.Libravatar Pierre Habouzit1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-06git-branch --track: fix tracking branch computation.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-26/+41
The original code did not take hierarchical branch names into account at all. Tested-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-05-20Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* maint: annotate: make it work from subdirectories. git-config: Correct asciidoc documentation for --int/--bool t1300: Add tests for git-config --bool --get unpack-trees.c: verify_uptodate: remove dead code Use PATH_MAX instead of TEMPFILE_PATH_LEN branch: fix segfault when resolving an invalid HEAD
2007-05-20branch: fix segfault when resolving an invalid HEADLibravatar Jonas Fonseca1-1/+2
Caused by return value of resolve_ref being passed directly to xstrdup whereby the sanity checking was never reached. Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-10git-update-ref: add --no-deref option for overwriting/detaching refLibravatar Sven Verdoolaege1-1/+1
git-checkout is also adapted to make use of this new option instead of the handcrafted command sequence. Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-06Make builtin-branch.c handle the git config fileLibravatar Lars Hjemli1-0/+6
This moves the knowledge about .git/config usage out of refs.c and into builtin-branch.c instead, which allows git-branch to update HEAD to point at the moved branch before attempting to update the config file. It also allows git-branch to exit with an error code if updating the config file should fail. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-16git-fetch, git-branch: Support local --track via a special remote '.'Libravatar Paolo Bonzini1-14/+25
This patch adds support for a dummy remote '.' to avoid having to declare a fake remote like [remote "local"] url = . fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* Such a builtin remote simplifies the operation of "git-fetch", which will populate FETCH_HEAD but will not pretend that two repositories are in use, will not create a thin pack, and will not perform any useless remapping of names. The speed improvement is around 20%, and it should improve more if "git-fetch" is converted to a builtin. To this end, git-parse-remote is grown with a new kind of remote, 'builtin'. In git-fetch.sh, we treat the builtin remote specially in that it needs no pack/store operations. In fact, doing git-fetch on a builtin remote will simply populate FETCH_HEAD appropriately. The patch also improves of the --track/--no-track support, extending it so that branch.<name>.remote items referring '.' can be created. Finally, it fixes a typo in git-checkout.sh. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>