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"git blame -L :funcname -- path" did not work well for a path for
which a userdiff driver is defined.
* pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff:
blame: simplify 'setup_blame_bloom_data' interface
blame: simplify 'setup_scoreboard' interface
blame: enable funcname blaming with userdiff driver
line-log: mention both modes in 'blame' and 'log' short help
doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiff
blame-options.txt: also mention 'funcname' in '-L' description
doc: line-range: improve formatting
doc: log, gitk: move '-L' description to 'line-range-options.txt'
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Preparation for a new merge strategy.
* en/merge-ort-api-null-impl:
merge,rebase,revert: select ort or recursive by config or environment
fast-rebase: demonstrate merge-ort's API via new test-tool command
merge-ort-wrappers: new convience wrappers to mimic the old merge API
merge-ort: barebones API of new merge strategy with empty implementation
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Parts of "git maintenance" to ease writing crontab entries (and
other scheduling system configuration) for it.
* ds/maintenance-part-3:
maintenance: add troubleshooting guide to docs
maintenance: use 'incremental' strategy by default
maintenance: create maintenance.strategy config
maintenance: add start/stop subcommands
maintenance: add [un]register subcommands
for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos
maintenance: add --schedule option and config
maintenance: optionally skip --auto process
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"git rebase -i" did not store ORIG_HEAD correctly.
* pw/rebase-i-orig-head:
rebase -i: simplify get_revision_ranges()
rebase -i: use struct object_id when writing state
rebase -i: use struct object_id rather than looking up commit
rebase -i: stop overwriting ORIG_HEAD buffer
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"git format-patch --output=there" did not work as expected and
instead crashed. The option is now supported.
* jk/format-patch-output:
format-patch: support --output option
format-patch: tie file-opening logic to output_directory
format-patch: refactor output selection
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"git log -L<range>:<path>" is documented to take no pathspec, but
this was not enforced by the command line option parser, which has
been corrected.
* jc/line-log-takes-no-pathspec:
log: diagnose -L used with pathspec as an error
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The code to see if "git stash drop" can safely remove refs/stash
has been made more carerful.
* rs/empty-reflog-check-fix:
stash: simplify reflog emptiness check
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Code clean-up.
* rs/clear-commit-marks-in-repo:
bisect: clear flags in passed repository
object: allow clear_commit_marks_all to handle any repo
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Code simplification.
* jk/committer-date-is-author-date-fix-simplify:
am, sequencer: stop parsing our own committer ident
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Exit codes from "git remote add" etc. were not usable by scripted
callers.
* ab/git-remote-exit-code:
remote: add meaningful exit code on missing/existing
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"git checkout-index" did not consistently signal an error with its
exit status.
* jk/checkout-index-errors:
checkout-index: propagate errors to exit code
checkout-index: drop error message from empty --stage=all
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Rewriting "git bisect" in C continues.
* mr/bisect-in-c-3:
bisect--helper: retire `--bisect-autostart` subcommand
bisect--helper: retire `--write-terms` subcommand
bisect--helper: retire `--check-expected-revs` subcommand
bisect--helper: reimplement `bisect_state` & `bisect_head` shell functions in C
bisect--helper: retire `--next-all` subcommand
bisect--helper: retire `--bisect-clean-state` subcommand
bisect--helper: finish porting `bisect_start()` to C
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Now that all the external users of head_hash have been converted to
use a opts->orig_head instead we can stop returning head_hash from
get_revision_ranges().
Because we want to pass the full object names back to the caller in
`revisions` the find_unique_abbrev_r() call that was used to initialize
`head_hash` is replaced with oid_to_hex().
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Rather than passing a string around pass the struct object_id that the
string was created from call oid_hex() when we write the file.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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We already have a struct object_id containing the oid that we want to
set ORIG_HEAD to so use that rather than converting it to a string and
then calling get_oid() on that string.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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After rebasing, ORIG_HEAD is supposed to point to the old HEAD of the
rebased branch. The code used find_unique_abbrev() to obtain the
object name of the old HEAD and wrote to both
.git/rebase-merge/orig-head (used by `rebase --abort` to go back to
the previous state) and to ORIG_HEAD. The buffer find_unique_abbrev()
gives back is volatile, unfortunately, and was overwritten after the
former file is written but before ORIG_FILE is written, leaving an
incorrect object name in it.
Avoid relying on the volatile buffer of find_unique_abbrev(), and
instead supply our own buffer to keep the object name.
I think that all of the users of head_hash should actually be using
opts->orig_head instead as passing a string rather than a struct
object_id around is a hang over from the scripted implementation. This
patch just fixes the immediate bug and adds a regression test based on
Caspar's reproduction example[1]. The users will be converted to use
struct object_id and head_hash removed in the next few commits.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAFzd1+7PDg2PZgKw7U0kdepdYuoML9wSN4kofmB_-8NHrbbrHg@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Caspar Duregger <herr.kaste@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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We've never intended to support diff's --output option in format-patch.
And until baa4adc66a (parse-options: disable option abbreviation with
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN, 2019-01-27), it was impossible to trigger. We
first parse the format-patch options before handing the remainder off to
setup_revisions(). Before that commit, we'd accept "--output=foo" as an
abbreviation for "--output-directory=foo". But afterwards, we don't
check abbreviations, and --output gets passed to the diff code.
This results in nonsense behavior and bugs. The diff code will have
opened a filehandle at rev.diffopt.file, but we'll overwrite that with
our own handles that we open for each individual patch file. So the
--output file will always just be empty. But worse, the diff code also
sets rev.diffopt.close_file, so log_tree_commit() will close the
filehandle itself. And then the main loop in cmd_format_patch() will try
to close it again, resulting in a double-free.
The simplest solution would be to just disallow --output with
format-patch, as nobody ever intended it to work. However, we have
accidentally documented it (because format-patch includes diff-options).
And it does work with "git log", which writes the whole output to the
specified file. It's easy enough to make that work for format-patch,
too: it's really the same as --stdout, but pointed at a specific file.
We can detect the use of the --output option by the "close_file" flag
(note that we can't use rev.diffopt.file, since the diff setup will
otherwise set it to stdout). So we just need to unset that flag, but
don't have to do anything else. Our situation is otherwise exactly like
--stdout (note that we don't fclose() the file, but nor does the stdout
case; exiting the program takes care of that for us).
Reported-by: Johannes Postler <johannes.postler@txture.io>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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In format-patch we're either outputting to stdout or to individual files
in an output directory (which may be just "./"). Our logic for whether
to open a new file for each patch is checked with "!use_stdout", but it
is equally correct to check for a non-NULL output_directory.
The distinction will matter when we add a new single-stream output in a
future patch, when only one of the three methods will want individual
files. Let's swap the logic here in preparation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The --stdout and --output-directory options are mutually exclusive, but
it's hard to tell from reading the code. We have three separate
conditionals that check for use_stdout, and it's only after we've set up
the output_directory fully that we check whether the user also specified
--stdout.
Instead, let's check the exclusion explicitly first, then have a single
conditional that handles stdout versus an output directory. This is
slightly easier to follow now, and also will keep things sane when we
add another output mode in a future patch.
We'll add a few tests as well, covering the mutual exclusion and the
fact that we are not confused by a configured output directory.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The -L option is documented to accept no pathspec, but the
command line option parser has allowed the combination without
checking so far. Ensure that there is no pathspec when the -L
option is in effect to fix this.
Incidentally, this change fixes another bug in the command line
option parser, which has allowed the -L option used together
with the --follow option. Because the latter requires exactly
one path given, but the former takes no pathspec, they become
mutually incompatible automatically. Because the -L option
follows renames on its own, there is no reason to give --follow
at the same time.
The new tests say they may fail with "-L and --follow being
incompatible" instead of "-L and pathspec being incompatible".
Currently the expected failure can come only from the latter, but
this is to futureproof them, in case we decide to add code to
explicititly die on -L and --follow used together.
Heled-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Allow the testsuite to run where it treats requests for "recursive" or
the default merge algorithm via consulting the environment variable
GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM which is expected to either be "recursive" (the
old traditional algorithm) or "ort" (the new algorithm).
Also, allow folks to pick the new algorithm via config setting. It
turns out builtin/merge.c already had a way to allow users to specify a
different default merge algorithm: pull.twohead. Rather odd
configuration name (especially to be in the 'pull' namespace rather than
'merge') but it's there. Add that same configuration to rebase,
cherry-pick, and revert.
This required updating the various callsites that called merge_trees()
or merge_recursive() to conditionally call the new API, so this serves
as another demonstration of what the new API looks and feels like.
There are almost certainly some callsites that have not yet been
modified to work with the new merge algorithm, but this represents the
ones that I have been testing with thus far.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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"git diff" family of commands learned the "-I<regex>" option to
ignore hunks whose changed lines all match the given pattern.
* mk/diff-ignore-regex:
diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes
merge-base, xdiff: zero out xpparam_t structures
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Code clean-up.
* jk/fast-import-marks-cleanup:
fast-import: remove duplicated option-parsing line
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"git credential' didn't honor the core.askPass configuration
variable (among other things), which has been corrected.
* tk/credential-config:
credential: load default config
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"git diff A...B" learned "git diff --merge-base A B", which is a
longer short-hand to say the same thing.
* dl/diff-merge-base:
contrib/completion: complete `git diff --merge-base`
builtin/diff-tree: learn --merge-base
builtin/diff-index: learn --merge-base
t4068: add --merge-base tests
diff-lib: define diff_get_merge_base()
diff-lib: accept option flags in run_diff_index()
contrib/completion: extract common diff/difftool options
git-diff.txt: backtick quote command text
git-diff-index.txt: make --cached description a proper sentence
t4068: remove unnecessary >tmp
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Document that the meaning of a Signed-off-by trailer can vary from
project to project in the end-user documentation, and clarify what
it means to this project.
* bk/sob-dco:
Documentation: stylistically normalize references to Signed-off-by:
SubmittingPatches: clarify DCO is our --signoff rule
Documentation: clarify and expand description of --signoff
doc: preparatory clean-up of description on the sign-off option
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Test-coverage enhancement of running commit-graph task "git
maintenance" as needed led to discovery and fix of a bug.
* ds/maintenance-commit-graph-auto-fix:
maintenance: core.commitGraph=false prevents writes
maintenance: test commit-graph auto condition
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"git fast-import" wasted a lot of memory when many marks were in use.
* jk/fast-import-marks-alloc-fix:
fast-import: fix over-allocation of marks storage
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The penultimate commit moved the initialization of 'sb.path' in
'builtin/blame.c::cmd_blame' before the call to
'blame.c::setup_blame_bloom_data'. Since 'cmd_blame' is the only caller
of 'setup_blame_bloom_data', it is now unnecessary for
'setup_blame_bloom_data' to receive 'path' as a separate argument, as
'sb.path' is already initialized.
Remove this argument from setup_blame_bloom_data's interface and use the
'path' field of the 'sb' 'struct blame_scoreboard' instead.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The previous commit moved the initialization of 'sb.path' in
'builtin/blame.c::cmd_blame' before the call to
'blame.c::setup_scoreboard'. Since 'cmd_blame' is the only caller of
'setup_scoreboard', it is now unnecessary for 'setup_scoreboard' to
receive 'path' as a separate argument, as 'sb.path' is already
initialized.
Remove this argument from setup_scoreboard's interface and use the
'path' field of the 'sb' 'struct blame_scoreboard' instead.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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In blame.c::cmd_blame, we send the 'path' field of the 'sb' 'struct
blame_scoreboard' as the 'path' argument to
'line-range.c::parse_range_arg', but 'sb.path' is not set yet; it's set
to the local variable 'path' a few lines later at line 1137.
This 'path' argument is only used in 'parse_range_arg' if we are blaming
a funcname, i.e. `git blame -L :<funcname> <path>`, and in that case it
is sent to 'parse_range_funcname', where it is used to determine if a
userdiff driver should be used for said <path> to match the given
funcname.
Since 'path' is yet unset, the userdiff driver is never used, so we fall
back to the default funcname regex, which is usually not appropriate for
paths that are set to use a specific userdiff driver, and thus either we
match some unrelated lines, or we die with
fatal: -L parameter '<funcname>' starting at line 1: no match
This has been the case ever since `git blame` learned to blame a
funcname in 13b8f68c1f (log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by
funcname, 2013-03-28).
Enable funcname blaming for paths using specific userdiff drivers by
initializing 'sb.path' earlier in 'cmd_blame', when some of its other
fields are initialized, so that it is set when passed to
'parse_range_arg'.
Add a regression test in 'annotate-tests.sh', which is sourced in
t8001-annotate.sh and t8002-blame.sh, leveraging an existing file used
to test the userdiff patterns in t4018-diff-funcname.
Also, use 'sb.path' instead of 'path' when constructing the error
message at line 1114, for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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'git blame -h' and 'git log -h' both show '-L <n,m>' and describe this
option as "Process only line range n,m, counting from 1". No hint is
given that a function name regex can also be used.
Use <range> instead, and expand the description of the option to mention
both modes. Remove "counting from 1" as it's uneeded; it's uncommon to
refer to the first line of a file as "line 0".
Also, for 'git log', improve the wording to better reflect the long help.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Calling rev-parse to check if the drop subcommand removed the last stash
and treating its failure as confirmation is fragile, as the command can
fail for other reasons, e.g. because the system is out of memory.
Directly check if the reflog is empty instead, which is more robust.
Reported-by: Marek Mrva <mrva@eof-studios.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Allow callers to specify the repository to use. Rename the function to
repo_clear_commit_marks to document its new scope. No functional change
intended.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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In 2.29, "--committer-date-is-author-date" option of "rebase" and
"am" subcommands lost the e-mail address by mistake, which has been
corrected.
* jk/committer-date-is-author-date-fix:
rebase: fix broken email with --committer-date-is-author-date
am: fix broken email with --committer-date-is-author-date
t3436: check --committer-date-is-author-date result more carefully
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"git checkout" learned to use checkout.guess configuration variable
and enable/disable its "--[no-]guess" option accordingly.
* dl/checkout-guess:
checkout: learn to respect checkout.guess
Documentation/config/checkout: replace sq with backticks
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"git checkout -p A...B [-- <path>]" did not work, even though the
same command without "-p" correctly used the merge-base between
commits A and B.
* dl/checkout-p-merge-base:
t2016: add a NEEDSWORK about the PERL prerequisite
add-patch: add NEEDSWORK about comparing commits
Doc: document "A...B" form for <tree-ish> in checkout and switch
builtin/checkout: fix `git checkout -p HEAD...` bug
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"git clone" learned clone.defaultremotename configuration variable
to customize what nickname to use to call the remote the repository
was cloned from.
* sb/clone-origin:
clone: allow configurable default for `-o`/`--origin`
clone: read new remote name from remote_name instead of option_origin
clone: validate --origin option before use
refs: consolidate remote name validation
remote: add tests for add and rename with invalid names
clone: use more conventional config/option layering
clone: add tests for --template and some disallowed option pairs
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"git push --force-with-lease[=<ref>]" can easily be misused to lose
commits unless the user takes good care of their own "git fetch".
A new option "--force-if-includes" attempts to ensure that what is
being force-pushed was created after examining the commit at the
tip of the remote ref that is about to be force-replaced.
* sk/force-if-includes:
t, doc: update tests, reference for "--force-if-includes"
push: parse and set flag for "--force-if-includes"
push: add reflog check for "--force-if-includes"
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"git maintenance", an extended big brother of "git gc", continues
to evolve.
* ds/maintenance-part-2:
maintenance: add incremental-repack auto condition
maintenance: auto-size incremental-repack batch
maintenance: add incremental-repack task
midx: use start_delayed_progress()
midx: enable core.multiPackIndex by default
maintenance: create auto condition for loose-objects
maintenance: add loose-objects task
maintenance: add prefetch task
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"git worktree list" now shows if each worktree is locked. This
possibly may open us to show other kinds of states in the future.
* rs/worktree-list-show-locked:
worktree: teach `list` to annotate locked worktree
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Code clean-up.
* rs/tighten-callers-of-deref-tag:
line-log: handle deref_tag() returning NULL
blame: handle deref_tag() returning NULL
grep: handle deref_tag() returning NULL
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If we encounter an error while checking out an explicit path, we print a
message to stderr but do not actually exit with a non-zero code. While
this is a plumbing command and the behavior goes all the way back to
33db5f4d90 (Add a "checkout-cache" command which does what the name
suggests., 2005-04-09), this is almost certainly an oversight:
- we _do_ return an exit code from checkout_file(); the caller just
never reads it
- errors while checking out all paths (with "-a") do result in a
non-zero exit code.
- it would be quite unusual not to use the exit code for an error,
as otherwise the caller has no idea the command failed except by
scraping stderr
To keep our tests simple and portable, we can use the most obvious
error: asking to checkout a path which is not in the index at all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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If checkout-index is given --stage=all for a specific path, it will try
to write stages 1-3 (if present) for that path to temporary files.
However, if the file is present only at stage 0, it writes nothing but
gives a confusing message:
$ git checkout-index --stage=all -- Makefile
git checkout-index: Makefile does not exist at stage 4
This is nonsense. There is no stage 4 (it's just an internal enum value
we use for "all"), and the documentation clearly states:
Paths which only have a stage 0 entry will always be omitted from the
output.
Here it's talking about the list of tempfiles written to stdout, but it
seems clear that this case was not meant to be an error. We even have a
test which covers it, but it only checks that the command reports an
exit code of 0, not its stderr. And it reports 0 only because of another
bug which fails to propagate errors (which will be fixed in a subsequent
patch).
So let's make the test more thorough. We'll also cover the case that we
found _no_ entry, not even a stage zero, which should still be an error.
However, because of the other bug, we'll have to mark this as expecting
failure for the moment.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Change the exit code for the likes of "git remote add/rename" to exit
with 2 if the remote in question doesn't exist, and 3 if it
does. Before we'd just die() and exit with the general 128 exit code.
This changes the output message from e.g.:
fatal: remote origin already exists.
To:
error: remote origin already exists.
Which I believe is a feature, since we generally use "fatal" for the
generic errors, and "error" for the more specific ones with a custom
exit code, but this part of the change may break code that already
relies on stderr parsing (not that we ever supported that...).
The motivation for this is a discussion around some code in GitLab's
gitaly which wanted to check this, and had to parse stderr to do so:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/-/merge_requests/2695
It's worth noting as an aside that a method of checking this that
doesn't rely on that is to check with "git config" whether the value
in question does or doesn't exist. That introduces a TOCTOU race
condition, but on the other hand this code (e.g. "git remote add")
already has a TOCTOU race.
We go through the config.lock for the actual setting of the config,
but the pseudocode logic is:
read_config();
check_config_and_arg_sanity();
save_config();
So e.g. if a sleep() is added right after the remote_is_configured()
check in add() we'll clobber remote.NAME.url, and add another (usually
duplicate) remote.NAME.fetch entry (and other values, depending on
invocation).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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In 2.29, "--committer-date-is-author-date" option of "rebase" and
"am" subcommands lost the e-mail address by mistake, which has been
corrected.
* jk/committer-date-is-author-date-fix:
rebase: fix broken email with --committer-date-is-author-date
am: fix broken email with --committer-date-is-author-date
t3436: check --committer-date-is-author-date result more carefully
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For the --committer-date-is-author-date option of git-am and git-rebase,
we format the committer ident, then re-parse it to find the name and
email, and then feed those back to fmt_ident().
We can simplify this by handling it all at the time of the fmt_ident()
call. We pass in the appropriate getenv() results, and if they're not
present, then our WANT_COMMITTER_IDENT flag tells fmt_ident() to fill in
the appropriate value from the config. Which is exactly what
git_committer_ident() was doing under the hood.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Commit e8cbe2118a (am: stop exporting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE, 2020-08-17)
rewrote the code for setting the committer date to use fmt_ident(),
rather than setting an environment variable and letting commit_tree()
handle it. But it introduced two bugs:
- we use the author email string instead of the committer email
- when parsing the committer ident, we used the wrong variable to
compute the length of the email, resulting in it always being a
zero-length string
This commit fixes both, which causes our test of this option via the
rebase "apply" backend to now succeed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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xpparam_t structures are usually zero-initialized before their specific
fields are assigned to, but there are three locations in the tree where
that does not happen. Add the missing memset() calls in order to make
initialization of xpparam_t structures consistent tree-wide and to
prevent stack garbage from being used as field values.
Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <michal@isc.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Ted reported an old typo in the git-commit.txt and merge-options.txt.
Namely, the phrase "Signed-off-by line" was used without either a
definite nor indefinite article.
Upon examination, it seems that the documentation (including items in
Documentation/, but also option help strings) have been quite
inconsistent on usage when referring to `Signed-off-by`.
First, very few places used a definite or indefinite article with the
phrase "Signed-off-by line", but that was the initial typo that led
to this investigation. So, normalize using either an indefinite or
definite article consistently.
The original phrasing, in Commit 3f971fc425b (Documentation updates,
2005-08-14), is "Add Signed-off-by line". Commit 6f855371a53 (Add
--signoff, --check, and long option-names. 2005-12-09) switched to
using "Add `Signed-off-by:` line", but didn't normalize the former
commit to match. Later commits seem to have cut and pasted from one
or the other, which is likely how the usage became so inconsistent.
Junio stated on the git mailing list in
<xmqqy2k1dfoh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> a preference to leave off
the colon. Thus, prefer `Signed-off-by` (with backticks) for the
documentation files and Signed-off-by (without backticks) for option
help strings.
Additionally, Junio argued that "trailer" is now the standard term to
refer to `Signed-off-by`, saying that "becomes plenty clear that we
are not talking about any random line in the log message". As such,
prefer "trailer" over "line" anywhere the former word fits.
However, leave alone those few places in documentation that use
Signed-off-by to refer to the process (rather than the specific
trailer), or in places where mail headers are generally discussed in
comparison with Signed-off-by.
Reported-by: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@sfconservancy.org>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
Phillip Wood
Jeff King
Elijah Newren
Philippe Blain
René Scharfe
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Michał Kępień
Bradley M. Kuhn