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2019-02-06Merge branch 'nd/the-index-final'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
The assumption to work on the single "in-core index" instance has been reduced from the library-ish part of the codebase. * nd/the-index-final: cache.h: flip NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS switch read-cache.c: remove the_* from index_has_changes() merge-recursive.c: remove implicit dependency on the_repository merge-recursive.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index sha1-name.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index read-cache.c: replace update_index_if_able with repo_& read-cache.c: kill read_index() checkout: avoid the_index when possible repository.c: replace hold_locked_index() with repo_hold_locked_index() notes-utils.c: remove the_repository references grep: use grep_opt->repo instead of explict repo argument
2019-01-29Merge branch 'bc/tree-walk-oid'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+10
The code to walk tree objects has been taught that we may be working with object names that are not computed with SHA-1. * bc/tree-walk-oid: cache: make oidcpy always copy GIT_MAX_RAWSZ bytes tree-walk: store object_id in a separate member match-trees: use hashcpy to splice trees match-trees: compute buffer offset correctly when splicing tree-walk: copy object ID before use
2019-01-24cache.h: flip NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS switchLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+3
By default, index compat macros are off from now on, because they could hide the_index dependency. Only those in builtin can use it. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-15tree-walk: store object_id in a separate memberLibravatar brian m. carlson1-10/+10
When parsing a tree, we read the object ID directly out of the tree buffer. This is normally fine, but such an object ID cannot be used with oidcpy, which copies GIT_MAX_RAWSZ bytes, because if we are using SHA-1, there may not be that many bytes to copy. Instead, store the object ID in a separate struct member. Since we can no longer efficiently compute the path length, store that information as well in struct name_entry. Ensure we only copy the object ID into the new buffer if the path length is nonzero, as some callers will pass us an empty path with no object ID following it, and we will not want to read past the end of the buffer. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-19tree-walk.c: make tree_entry_interesting() take an indexLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
In order to support :(attr) when matching pathspec on a tree, tree_entry_interesting() needs to take an index (because git_check_attr() needs it). This is the preparation step for it. This also makes it clearer what index we fall back to when looking up attributes during an unpack-trees operation: the source index. This also fixes revs->pruning.repo initialization that should have been done in 2abf350385 (revision.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index - 2018-09-21). Without it, skip_uninteresting() will dereference a NULL pointer through this call chain get_revision(revs) get_revision_internal get_revision_1 try_to_simplify_commit rev_compare_tree diff_tree_oid(..., &revs->pruning) ll_diff_tree_oid diff_tree_paths ll_diff_tree skip_uninteresting Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-13Merge branch 'jk/xdiff-interface'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
The interface into "xdiff" library used to discover the offset and size of a generated patch hunk by first formatting it into the textual hunk header "@@ -n,m +k,l @@" and then parsing the numbers out. A new interface has been introduced to allow callers a more direct access to them. * jk/xdiff-interface: xdiff-interface: drop parse_hunk_header() range-diff: use a hunk callback diff: convert --check to use a hunk callback combine-diff: use an xdiff hunk callback diff: use hunk callback for word-diff diff: discard hunk headers for patch-ids earlier diff: avoid generating unused hunk header lines xdiff-interface: provide a separate consume callback for hunks xdiff: provide a separate emit callback for hunks
2018-11-02xdiff: provide a separate emit callback for hunksLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+2
The xdiff library always emits hunk header lines to our callbacks as formatted strings like "@@ -a,b +c,d @@\n". This is convenient if we're going to output a diff, but less so if we actually need to compute using those numbers, which requires re-parsing the line. In preparation for moving away from this, let's teach xdiff a new callback function which gets the broken-out hunk information. To help callers that don't want to use this new callback, if it's NULL we'll continue to format the hunk header into a string. Note that this function renames the "outf" callback to "out_line", as well. This isn't strictly necessary, but helps in two ways: 1. Now that there are two callbacks, it's nice to use more descriptive names. 2. Many callers did not zero the emit_callback_data struct, and needed to be modified to set ecb.out_hunk to NULL. By changing the name of the existing struct member, that guarantees that any new callers from in-flight topics will break the build and be examined manually. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-19Merge branch 'nd/the-index'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Various codepaths in the core-ish part learn to work on an arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default instance "the_index". * nd/the-index: (23 commits) revision.c: reduce implicit dependency the_repository revision.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index ws.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index tree-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index submodule.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index line-range.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index userdiff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index rerere.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index sha1-file.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index patch-ids.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index merge-blobs.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index ll-merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index diff-lib.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index read-cache.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index grep.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index diff.c: remove the_index dependency in textconv() functions blame.c: rename "repo" argument to "r" combine-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index ...
2018-09-21merge-blobs.c: remove implicit dependency on the_indexLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-29convert "oidcmp() == 0" to oideq()Libravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
Using the more restrictive oideq() should, in the long run, give the compiler more opportunities to optimize these callsites. For now, this conversion should be a complete noop with respect to the generated code. The result is also perhaps a little more readable, as it avoids the "zero is equal" idiom. Since it's so prevalent in C, I think seasoned programmers tend not to even notice it anymore, but it can sometimes make for awkward double negations (e.g., we can drop a few !!oidcmp() instances here). This patch was generated almost entirely by the included coccinelle patch. This mechanical conversion should be completely safe, because we check explicitly for cases where oidcmp() is compared to 0, which is what oideq() is doing under the hood. Note that we don't have to catch "!oidcmp()" separately; coccinelle's standard isomorphisms make sure the two are treated equivalently. I say "almost" because I did hand-edit the coccinelle output to fix up a few style violations (it mostly keeps the original formatting, but sometimes unwraps long lines). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-29blob: add repository argument to lookup_blobLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+2
Add a repository argument to allow the callers of lookup_blob to be more specific about which repository to act on. This is a small mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle repositories other than the_repository yet. As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a repository other than the_repository at compile time. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-29Merge branch 'sb/object-store-grafts' into sb/object-store-lookupLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* sb/object-store-grafts: commit: allow lookup_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories commit: allow prepare_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories shallow: migrate shallow information into the object parser path.c: migrate global git_path_* to take a repository argument cache: convert get_graft_file to handle arbitrary repositories commit: convert read_graft_file to handle arbitrary repositories commit: convert register_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories commit: convert commit_graft_pos() to handle arbitrary repositories shallow: add repository argument to is_repository_shallow shallow: add repository argument to check_shallow_file_for_update shallow: add repository argument to register_shallow shallow: add repository argument to set_alternate_shallow_file commit: add repository argument to lookup_commit_graft commit: add repository argument to prepare_commit_graft commit: add repository argument to read_graft_file commit: add repository argument to register_commit_graft commit: add repository argument to commit_graft_pos object: move grafts to object parser object-store: move object access functions to object-store.h
2018-05-16object-store: move object access functions to object-store.hLibravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+1
This should make these functions easier to find and cache.h less overwhelming to read. In particular, this moves: - read_object_file - oid_object_info - write_object_file As a result, most of the codebase needs to #include object-store.h. In this patch the #include is only added to files that would fail to compile otherwise. It would be better to #include wherever identifiers from the header are used. That can happen later when we have better tooling for it. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-11exec_cmd: rename to use dash in file nameLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+1
This is more consistent with the project style. The majority of Git's source files use dashes in preference to underscores in their file names. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
2018-03-14sha1_file: convert read_sha1_file to struct object_idLibravatar brian m. carlson1-2/+3
Convert read_sha1_file to take a pointer to struct object_id and rename it read_object_file. Do the same for read_sha1_file_extended. Convert one use in grep.c to use the new function without any other code change, since the pointer being passed is a void pointer that is already initialized with a pointer to struct object_id. Update the declaration and definitions of the modified functions, and apply the following semantic patch to convert the remaining callers: @@ expression E1, E2, E3; @@ - read_sha1_file(E1.hash, E2, E3) + read_object_file(&E1, E2, E3) @@ expression E1, E2, E3; @@ - read_sha1_file(E1->hash, E2, E3) + read_object_file(E1, E2, E3) @@ expression E1, E2, E3, E4; @@ - read_sha1_file_extended(E1.hash, E2, E3, E4) + read_object_file_extended(&E1, E2, E3, E4) @@ expression E1, E2, E3, E4; @@ - read_sha1_file_extended(E1->hash, E2, E3, E4) + read_object_file_extended(E1, E2, E3, E4) Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-14tree-walk: convert fill_tree_descriptor() to object_idLibravatar René Scharfe1-6/+6
All callers of fill_tree_descriptor() have been converted to object_id already, so convert that function as well. As a nice side-effect we get rid of NULL checks in tree-diff.c, as fill_tree_descriptor() already does them for us. Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Reviewed-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-17builtin/merge-tree: convert remaining caller of get_sha1 to object_idLibravatar brian m. carlson1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-08Convert lookup_blob to struct object_idLibravatar brian m. carlson1-1/+1
Convert lookup_blob to take a pointer to struct object_id. The commit was created with manual changes to blob.c and blob.h, plus the following semantic patch: @@ expression E1; @@ - lookup_blob(E1.hash) + lookup_blob(&E1) @@ expression E1; @@ - lookup_blob(E1->hash) + lookup_blob(E1) Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-08Convert remaining callers of lookup_blob to object_idLibravatar brian m. carlson1-5/+5
All but a few callers of lookup_blob have been converted to struct object_id. Introduce a temporary, which will be removed later, into parse_object to ease the transition, and convert the remaining callers so that we can update lookup_blob to take struct object_id *. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-25struct name_entry: use struct object_id instead of unsigned char sha1[20]Libravatar brian m. carlson1-9/+9
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22use xmallocz to avoid size arithmeticLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
We frequently allocate strings as xmalloc(len + 1), where the extra 1 is for the NUL terminator. This can be done more simply with xmallocz, which also checks for integer overflow. There's no case where switching xmalloc(n+1) to xmallocz(n) is wrong; the result is the same length, and malloc made no guarantees about what was in the buffer anyway. But in some cases, we can stop manually placing NUL at the end of the allocated buffer. But that's only safe if it's clear that the contents will always fill the buffer. In each case where this patch does so, I manually examined the control flow, and I tried to err on the side of caution. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-11-20Remove get_object_hash.Libravatar brian m. carlson1-2/+2
Convert all instances of get_object_hash to use an appropriate reference to the hash member of the oid member of struct object. This provides no functional change, as it is essentially a macro substitution. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20Convert struct object to object_idLibravatar brian m. carlson1-1/+1
struct object is one of the major data structures dealing with object IDs. Convert it to use struct object_id instead of an unsigned char array. Convert get_object_hash to refer to the new member as well. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20Add several uses of get_object_hash.Libravatar brian m. carlson1-2/+2
Convert most instances where the sha1 member of struct object is dereferenced to use get_object_hash. Most instances that are passed to functions that have versions taking struct object_id, such as get_sha1_hex/get_oid_hex, or instances that can be trivially converted to use struct object_id instead, are not converted. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-09-28react to errors in xdi_diffLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+2
When we call into xdiff to perform a diff, we generally lose the return code completely. Typically by ignoring the return of our xdi_diff wrapper, but sometimes we even propagate that return value up and then ignore it later. This can lead to us silently producing incorrect diffs (e.g., "git log" might produce no output at all, not even a diff header, for a content-level diff). In practice this does not happen very often, because the typical reason for xdiff to report failure is that it malloc() failed (it uses straight malloc, and not our xmalloc wrapper). But it could also happen when xdiff triggers one our callbacks, which returns an error (e.g., outf() in builtin/rerere.c tries to report a write failure in this way). And the next patch also plans to add more failure modes. Let's notice an error return from xdiff and react appropriately. In most of the diff.c code, we can simply die(), which matches the surrounding code (e.g., that is what we do if we fail to load a file for diffing in the first place). This is not that elegant, but we are probably better off dying to let the user know there was a problem, rather than simply generating bogus output. We could also just die() directly in xdi_diff, but the callers typically have a bit more context, and can provide a better message (and if we do later decide to pass errors up, we're one step closer to doing so). There is one interesting case, which is in diff_grep(). Here if we cannot generate the diff, there is nothing to match, and we silently return "no hits". This is actually what the existing code does already, but we make it a little more explicit. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-02merge-tree: remove unused df_conflict argumentsLibravatar René Scharfe1-12/+6
merge_trees_recursive() stores a pointer to its parameter df_conflict in its struct traverse_info, but it is never actually used. Stop doing that, remove the parameter and inline the function into merge_trees(), as the latter is now only passing on its parameters. Remove the parameter df_conflict from unresolved_directory() as well, now that there is no way to pass it to merge_trees_recursive() through that function anymore. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-06merge-tree: handle directory/empty conflict correctlyLibravatar John Keeping1-1/+5
git-merge-tree causes a null pointer dereference when a directory entry exists in only one or two of the three trees being compared with no corresponding entry in the other tree(s). When this happens, we want to handle the entry as a directory and not attempt to mark it as a file merge. Do this by setting the entries bit in the directory mask when the entry is missing or when it is a directory, only performing the file comparison when we know that a file entry exists. Reported-by: Andreas Jacobsen <andreas@andreasjacobsen.com> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Tested-by: Andreas Jacobsen <andreas@andreasjacobsen.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-28merge-tree: fix typo in "both changed identically"Libravatar John Keeping1-1/+1
Commit aacecc3 (merge-tree: don't print entries that match "local" - 2013-04-07) had a typo causing the "same in both" check to be incorrect and check if both the base and "their" versions are removed instead of checking that both the "our" and "their" versions are removed. Fix this. Reported-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Test-written-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-08merge-tree: don't print entries that match "local"Libravatar John Keeping1-13/+13
The documentation says: the output from the command omits entries that match the <branch1> tree. But currently "added in branch1" and "removed in branch1" (both while unchanged in branch2) do print output. Change this so that the behaviour matches the documentation. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-27merge-tree: fix typo in merge-tree.c::unresolvedLibravatar John Keeping1-1/+1
When calculating whether there is a d/f conflict, the calculation of whether both sides are directories generates an incorrect references mask because it does not use the loop index to set the correct bit. Fix this typo. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-26merge-tree: fix d/f conflictsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-32/+40
The previous commit documented two known breakages revolving around a case where one side flips a tree into a blob (or vice versa), where the original code simply gets confused and feeds a mixture of trees and blobs into either the recursive merge-tree (and recursing into the blob will fail) or three-way merge (and merging tree contents together with blobs will fail). Fix it by feeding trees (and only trees) into the recursive merge-tree machinery and blobs (and only blobs) into the three-way content level merge machinery separately; when this happens, the entire merge has to be marked as conflicting at the structure level. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-26merge-tree: add comments to clarify what these functions are doingLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+22
Rename the "branch1" parameter given to resolve() to "ours", to clarify what is going on. Also, annotate the unresolved_directory() function with some comments to show what decisions are made in each step, and highlight two bugs that need to be fixed. Add two tests to t4300 to illustrate these bugs. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-26merge-tree: lose unused "resolve_directories"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+0
This option is always set; simplify. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-26merge-tree: lose unused "flags" from merge_listLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
Drop the unused field from the structure. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-09Which merge_file() function do you mean?Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
There are two different static functions and one global function, all of them called "merge_file()", with different signatures and purposes. Rename them all to reduce confusion in "git grep" output: * Rename the static one in merge-index to "merge_one_path(const char *path)" as that function is about asking an external command to resolve conflicts in one path. * Rename the global one in merge-file.c that is only used by merge-tree to "merge_blobs()", as the function takes three blobs and returns the merged result only in-core, without doing anything to the filesystem. * Rename the one in merge-recursive to "merge_one_file()", just to be fair. Also rename merge-file.[ch] to merge-blobs.[ch]. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-11sparse: Fix an "symbol 'merge_file' not decared" warningLibravatar Ramsay Jones1-2/+1
In order to fix the warning, we add a new "merge-file.h" header containing the extern declaration of the merge_file() function, and include the header in the source files that require the declaration. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-22Fix sparse warningsLibravatar Stephen Boyd1-1/+1
Fix warnings from 'make check'. - These files don't include 'builtin.h' causing sparse to complain that cmd_* isn't declared: builtin/clone.c:364, builtin/fetch-pack.c:797, builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c:34, builtin/hash-object.c:78, builtin/merge-index.c:69, builtin/merge-recursive.c:22 builtin/merge-tree.c:341, builtin/mktag.c:156, builtin/notes.c:426 builtin/notes.c:822, builtin/pack-redundant.c:596, builtin/pack-refs.c:10, builtin/patch-id.c:60, builtin/patch-id.c:149, builtin/remote.c:1512, builtin/remote-ext.c:240, builtin/remote-fd.c:53, builtin/reset.c:236, builtin/send-pack.c:384, builtin/unpack-file.c:25, builtin/var.c:75 - These files have symbols which should be marked static since they're only file scope: submodule.c:12, diff.c:631, replace_object.c:92, submodule.c:13, submodule.c:14, trace.c:78, transport.c:195, transport-helper.c:79, unpack-trees.c:19, url.c:3, url.c:18, url.c:104, url.c:117, url.c:123, url.c:129, url.c:136, thread-utils.c:21, thread-utils.c:48 - These files redeclare symbols to be different types: builtin/index-pack.c:210, parse-options.c:564, parse-options.c:571, usage.c:49, usage.c:58, usage.c:63, usage.c:72 - These files use a literal integer 0 when they really should use a NULL pointer: daemon.c:663, fast-import.c:2942, imap-send.c:1072, notes-merge.c:362 While we're in the area, clean up some unused #includes in builtin files (mostly exec_cmd.h). Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-14merge-tree: fix where two branches share no changesLibravatar Will Palmer1-1/+2
15b4f7a (merge-tree: use ll_merge() not xdl_merge(), 2010-01-16) introduced a regression to merge-tree to cause it to segfault when merging files which existed in one branch, but not in the other or in the merge-base. This was caused by referencing entry->path at a time when entry was known to be possibly-NULL. To correct the problem, we save the path of the entry we came in with, as the path should be the same among all the stages no matter which sides are involved in the merge. Signed-off-by: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-21Merge branch 'rs/diff-no-minimal' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* rs/diff-no-minimal: git diff too slow for a file
2010-02-22Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectoryLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+358
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n) [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab> builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c you get [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type] builtin/ builtin.h [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to] [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type] shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to] [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type] shortlog.c shortlog.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief. NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off around 100 choices or something. So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>