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2017-10-11describe: do not use cmd_*() as a subroutineLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+11
The cmd_foo() function is a moral equivalent of 'main' for a Git subcommand 'git foo', and as such, it is allowed to do many things that make it unsuitable to be called as a subroutine, including - call exit(3) to terminate the process; - allocate resource held and used throughout its lifetime, without releasing it upon return/exit; - rely on global variables being initialized at program startup, and update them as needed, making another clean invocation of the function impossible. The call to cmd_diff_index() "git describe" makes has been working by accident that the function did not call exit(3); it sets a bad precedent for people to cut and paste. We could invoke it via the run_command() interface, but the diff family of commands have helper functions in diff-lib.c that are meant to be usable as subroutines, and using the latter does not make the resulting code all that longer. Use it. Note that there is also an invocation of cmd_name_rev() at the end; "git describe --contains" massages its command line arguments to be suitable for "git name-rev" invocation and jumps to it, never to regain control. This call is left as-is as an exception to the rule. When we start to allow calling name-rev repeatedly as a helper function, we would be able to remove this call as well. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-10Merge branch 'rs/merge-microcleanup' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Code clean-up. * rs/merge-microcleanup: merge: use skip_prefix()
2017-09-10Merge branch 'rj/add-chmod-error-message' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
Message fix. * rj/add-chmod-error-message: builtin/add: add detail to a 'cannot chmod' error message
2017-09-10Merge branch 'mg/killed-merge' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+12
Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD, which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed. * mg/killed-merge: merge: save merge state earlier merge: split write_merge_state in two merge: clarify call chain Documentation/git-merge: explain --continue
2017-09-10Merge branch 'rs/fsck-obj-leakfix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+11
Memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged. * rs/fsck-obj-leakfix: fsck: free buffers on error in fsck_obj()
2017-09-10Merge branch 'pw/am-signoff' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-25/+1
"git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case. * pw/am-signoff: am: fix signoff when other trailers are present
2017-09-10Merge branch 'bw/clone-recursive-quiet' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
"git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet option down to submodules. * bw/clone-recursive-quiet: clone: teach recursive clones to respect -q
2017-09-10Merge branch 'pw/sequence-rerere-autoupdate' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+14
Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been fixed. * pw/sequence-rerere-autoupdate: cherry-pick/revert: reject --rerere-autoupdate when continuing cherry-pick/revert: remember --rerere-autoupdate t3504: use test_commit rebase -i: honor --rerere-autoupdate rebase: honor --rerere-autoupdate am: remember --rerere-autoupdate setting
2017-09-10Merge branch 'bw/push-options-recursively-to-submodules' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+40
"git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not propagated down to the submodules, but now it is. * bw/push-options-recursively-to-submodules: submodule--helper: teach push-check to handle HEAD
2017-09-10Merge branch 'ma/pager-per-subcommand-action' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this, and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default. If this works out OK, I think there are low-hanging fruits in other commands like "git branch" that outputs long list in one mode while taking input in another. * ma/pager-per-subcommand-action: git.c: ignore pager.* when launching builtin as dashed external tag: change default of `pager.tag` to "on" tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only t7006: add tests for how git tag paginates git.c: provide setup_auto_pager() git.c: let builtins opt for handling `pager.foo` themselves builtin.h: take over documentation from api-builtin.txt
2017-09-10Merge branch 'jk/rev-list-empty-input' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
"git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which has been fixed---it now shows nothing. * jk/rev-list-empty-input: revision: do not fallback to default when rev_input_given is set rev-list: don't show usage when we see empty ref patterns revision: add rev_input_given flag t6018: flesh out empty input/output rev-list tests
2017-08-23Merge branch 'jt/subprocess-handshake' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
Code cleanup. * jt/subprocess-handshake: sub-process: refactor handshake to common function Documentation: migrate sub-process docs to header convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol convert: refactor capabilities negotiation convert: move multiple file filter error handling to separate function convert: put the flags field before the flag itself for consistent style t0021: write "OUT <size>" only on success t0021: make debug log file name configurable t0021: keep filter log files on comparison
2017-08-23Merge branch 'dc/fmt-merge-msg-microcleanup' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Code cleanup. * dc/fmt-merge-msg-microcleanup: fmt-merge-msg: fix coding style
2017-08-23Merge branch 'js/run-process-parallel-api-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
API fix. * js/run-process-parallel-api-fix: run_processes_parallel: change confusing task_cb convention
2017-08-23Merge branch 'rs/pack-objects-pbase-cleanup' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Code clean-up. * rs/pack-objects-pbase-cleanup: pack-objects: remove unnecessary NULL check
2017-08-23Merge branch 'jt/fsck-code-cleanup' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-25/+16
Code clean-up. * jt/fsck-code-cleanup: fsck: cleanup unused variable object: remove "used" field from struct object fsck: remove redundant parse_tree() invocation
2017-08-23Merge branch 'rs/move-array' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano3-7/+5
Code clean-up. * rs/move-array: ls-files: don't try to prune an empty index apply: use COPY_ARRAY and MOVE_ARRAY in update_image() use MOVE_ARRAY add MOVE_ARRAY
2017-08-23Merge branch 'ks/commit-abort-on-empty-message-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
"git commit" when seeing an totally empty message said "you did not edit the message", which is clearly wrong. The message has been corrected. * ks/commit-abort-on-empty-message-fix: commit: check for empty message before the check for untouched template
2017-08-23Merge branch 'jk/reflog-walk' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-4/+8
Numerous bugs in walking of reflogs via "log -g" and friends have been fixed. * jk/reflog-walk: reflog-walk: apply --since/--until to reflog dates reflog-walk: stop using fake parents rev-list: check reflog_info before showing usage get_revision_1(): replace do-while with an early return log: do not free parents when walking reflog log: clarify comment about reflog cycles revision: disallow reflog walking with revs->limited t1414: document some reflog-walk oddities
2017-08-23Merge branch 'jk/ref-filter-colors' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano8-73/+58
"%C(color name)" in the pretty print format always produced ANSI color escape codes, which was an early design mistake. They now honor the configuration (e.g. "color.ui = never") and also tty-ness of the output medium. * jk/ref-filter-colors: ref-filter: consult want_color() before emitting colors pretty: respect color settings for %C placeholders rev-list: pass diffopt->use_colors through to pretty-print for-each-ref: load config earlier color: check color.ui in git_default_config() ref-filter: pass ref_format struct to atom parsers ref-filter: factor out the parsing of sorting atoms ref-filter: make parse_ref_filter_atom a private function ref-filter: provide a function for parsing sort options ref-filter: move need_color_reset_at_eol into ref_format ref-filter: abstract ref format into its own struct ref-filter: simplify automatic color reset t: use test_decode_color rather than literal ANSI codes docs/for-each-ref: update pointer to color syntax check return value of verify_ref_format()
2017-08-23merge: save merge state earlierLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+2
If the `git merge` process is killed while waiting for the editor to finish, the merge state is lost but the prepared merge msg and tree is kept. So, a subsequent `git commit` creates a squashed merge even when the user asked for proper merge commit originally. Demonstrate the problem with a test crafted after the in t7502. The test requires EXECKEEPSPID (thus does not run under MINGW). Save the merge state earlier (in the non-squash case) so that it does not get lost. This makes the test pass. Reported-by: hIpPy <hippy2981@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-23merge: split write_merge_state in twoLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-3/+8
write_merge_state() writes out the merge heads, mode, and msg. But we may want to write out heads, mode without the msg. So, split out heads (+mode) into a separate function write_merge_heads() that is called by write_merge_state(). No funtional change so far, except when these non-atomic writes are interrupted: we write heads-mode-msg now when we used to write heads-msg-mode. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-23merge: clarify call chainLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+2
prepare_to_commit() cannot be reached in the non-squash case: It is called by merge_trivial() and finish_automerge() only, but the calls to the latter are somewhat hard to track: If option_commit is not set, the code in cmd_merge() uses a fake conflict return code (ret=1) to avoid writing the tree, which also avoids setting automerge_was_ok (just as in the proper ret==1 case), so that finish_automerge() is not called. To ensure that no code change breaks that assumption, safe-guard prepare_to_commit() by a BUG() statement. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-10fsck: free buffers on error in fsck_obj()Libravatar René Scharfe1-11/+11
Move the code for releasing tree buffers and commit buffers in fsck_obj() to the end of the function and make sure it's executed no matter of an error is encountered or not. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-10merge: use skip_prefix()Libravatar René Scharfe1-2/+2
Get rid of a magic string length constant by using skip_prefix() instead of starts_with(). Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-09builtin/add: add detail to a 'cannot chmod' error messageLibravatar Ramsay Jones1-3/+3
In addition to adding the missing newline, add the x-ecutable bit 'mode change' character to the error message. This message now has the same form as similar messages output by 'update-index'. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-08am: fix signoff when other trailers are presentLibravatar Phillip Wood1-25/+1
If there was no 'Signed-off-by:' trailer but another trailer such as 'Reported-by:' then 'git am --signoff' would add a blank line between the existing trailers and the added 'Signed-off-by:' line. e.g. Rebase accepts '--rerere-autoupdate' as an option but only honors it if '-m' is also given. Fix it for a non-interactive rebase by passing on the option to 'git am' and 'git cherry-pick'. Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Fix by using the code provided for this purpose in sequencer.c. Change the tests so that they check the formatting of the 'Signed-off-by:' lines rather than just grepping for them. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-04clone: teach recursive clones to respect -qLibravatar Brandon Williams1-0/+3
Teach 'git clone --recurse-submodules' to respect the '-q' option by passing down the quiet flag to the process which handles cloning of submodules. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-03tag: change default of `pager.tag` to "on"Libravatar Martin Ågren1-1/+1
The previous patch taught `git tag` to only respect `pager.tag` in list-mode. That patch left the default value of `pager.tag` at "off". After that patch, it makes sense to let the default value be "on" instead, since it will help with listing many tags, but will not hurt users of `git tag -a` as it would have before. Make that change. Update documentation and tests. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-03tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode onlyLibravatar Martin Ågren1-0/+3
Using, e.g., `git -c pager.tag tag -a new-tag` results in errors such as "Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal" and a garbled terminal. Someone who makes use of both `git tag -a` and `git tag -l` will probably not set `pager.tag`, so that `git tag -a` will actually work, at the cost of not paging output of `git tag -l`. Use the mechanisms introduced in two earlier patches to ignore `pager.tag` in git.c and let the `git tag` builtin handle it on its own. Only respect `pager.tag` when running in list-mode. There is a window between where the pager is started before and after this patch. This means that early errors can behave slightly different before and after this patch. Since operation-parsing has to happen inside this window, this can be seen with `git -c pager.tag="echo pager is used" tag -l --unknown-option`. This change in paging-behavior should be acceptable since it only affects erroneous usages. Update the documentation and update tests. If an alias is used to run `git tag -a`, then `pager.tag` will still be respected. Document this known breakage. It will be fixed in a later commit. Add a similar test for `-l`, which works. Noticed-by: Anatoly Borodin <anatoly.borodin@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-02rev-list: don't show usage when we see empty ref patternsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+2
If the user gives us no starting point for a traversal, we want to complain with our normal usage message. But if they tried to do so with "--all" or "--glob", but that happened not to match any refs, the usage message isn't helpful. We should just give them the empty output they asked for instead. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-02cherry-pick/revert: reject --rerere-autoupdate when continuingLibravatar Phillip Wood1-0/+2
cherry-pick and revert should not accept --[no-]rerere-autoupdate once they have started. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-02am: remember --rerere-autoupdate settingLibravatar Phillip Wood1-0/+12
Save the rerere-autoupdate setting so that it is remembered after stopping for the user to resolve conflicts. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-31Merge branch 'jk/gc-pre-detach-under-hook' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the early part at the same time. This is now prevented by running the early part also under the GC lock. * jk/gc-pre-detach-under-hook: gc: run pre-detach operations under lock
2017-07-26Merge branch 'ls/filter-process-delayed' into jt/subprocess-handshakeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
* ls/filter-process-delayed: convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol convert: refactor capabilities negotiation convert: move multiple file filter error handling to separate function convert: put the flags field before the flag itself for consistent style t0021: write "OUT <size>" only on success t0021: make debug log file name configurable t0021: keep filter log files on comparison
2017-07-26fsck: cleanup unused variableLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-3/+1
Remove the unused variable "heads" from cmd_fsck(). This variable was made unused in commit c3271a0 ("fsck: do not fallback "git fsck <bogus>" to "git fsck"", 2017-01-17). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-25fmt-merge-msg: fix coding styleLibravatar Dimitrios Christidis1-1/+2
Align argument list and place opening brace on its own line. Signed-off-by: Dimitrios Christidis <dimitrios@christidis.me> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-21run_processes_parallel: change confusing task_cb conventionLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
By declaring the task_cb parameter of type `void **`, the signature of the get_next_task method suggests that the "task-specific cookie" can be defined in that method, and the signatures of the start_failure and of the task_finished methods declare that parameter of type `void *`, suggesting that those methods are mere users of said cookie. That convention makes a total lot of sense, because the tasks are pretty much dead when one of the latter two methods is called: there would be little use to reset that cookie at that point because nobody would be able to see the change afterwards. However, this is not what the code actually does. For all three methods, it passes the *address* of pp->children[i].data. As reasoned above, this behavior makes no sense. So let's change the implementation to adhere to the convention suggested by the signatures. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Acked-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-20submodule--helper: teach push-check to handle HEADLibravatar Brandon Williams1-9/+40
In 06bf4ad1d (push: propagate remote and refspec with --recurse-submodules) push was taught how to propagate a refspec down to submodules when the '--recurse-submodules' flag is given. The only refspecs that are allowed to be propagated are ones which name a ref which exists in both the superproject and the submodule, with the caveat that 'HEAD' was disallowed. This patch teaches push-check (the submodule helper which determines if a refspec can be propagated to a submodule) to permit propagating 'HEAD' if and only if the superproject and the submodule both have the same named branch checked out and the submodule is not in a detached head state. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-20object: remove "used" field from struct objectLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-10/+14
The "used" field in struct object is only used by builtin/fsck. Remove that field and modify builtin/fsck to use a flag instead. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-20fsck: remove redundant parse_tree() invocationLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-12/+1
If obj->type == OBJ_TREE, an invocation of fsck_walk() will invoke parse_tree() and return quickly if that returns nonzero, so it is of no use for traverse_one_object() to invoke parse_tree() in this situation before invoking fsck_walk(). Remove that code. The behavior of traverse_one_object() is changed slightly in that it now returns -1 instead of 1 in the case that parse_tree() fails, but this is not an issue because its only caller (traverse_reachable) does not care about the value as long as it is nonzero. This code was introduced in commit 271b8d2 ("builtin-fsck: move away from object-refs to fsck_walk", 2008-02-25). The same issue existed in that commit. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-20pack-objects: remove unnecessary NULL checkLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
If done_pbase_paths is NULL then done_pbase_paths_num must be zero and done_pbase_path_pos() returns -1 without accessing the array, so the check is not necessary. If the invariant was violated then the check would make sure we keep on going and allocate the necessary amount of memory in the next ALLOC_GROW call. That sounds nice, but all array entries except for one would contain garbage data. If the invariant was violated without the check we'd get a segfault in done_pbase_path_pos(), i.e. an observable crash, alerting us of the presence of a bug. Currently there is no such bug: Only the functions check_pbase_path() and cleanup_preferred_base() change pointer and counter, and both make sure to keep them in sync. Get rid of the check anyway to allow us to see if later changes introduce such a defect, and to simplify the code. Detected by Coverity Scan. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-18Merge branch 'jk/gc-pre-detach-under-hook'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the early part at the same time. This is now prevented by running the early part also under the GC lock. * jk/gc-pre-detach-under-hook: gc: run pre-detach operations under lock
2017-07-17commit: check for empty message before the check for untouched templateLibravatar Kaartic Sivaraam1-5/+5
The check for whether the template given to 'git commit' is untouched is done before the empty message check. This results in a wrong error message being displayed in the following case. When the user removes everything in template completely to abort the commit he is shown the "template untouched" error which is wrong. He should be shown the "empty message" error. Do the empty message check before checking for an untouched template thus fixing this issue. Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-17ls-files: don't try to prune an empty indexLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Exit early when asked to prune an index that contains no entries to begin with. This avoids pointer arithmetic on istate->cache, which is possibly NULL in that case. Found with Clang's UBSan. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-17use MOVE_ARRAYLibravatar René Scharfe3-6/+4
Simplify the code for moving members inside of an array and make it more robust by using the helper macro MOVE_ARRAY. It calculates the size based on the specified number of elements for us and supports NULL pointers when that number is zero. Raw memmove(3) calls with NULL can cause the compiler to (over-eagerly) optimize out later NULL checks. This patch was generated with contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci and spatch (Coccinelle). Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-13Merge branch 'sb/pull-rebase-submodule'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-35/+74
"git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" learns to rebase the branch in the submodules to an updated base. * sb/pull-rebase-submodule: builtin/fetch cleanup: always set default value for submodule recursing pull: optionally rebase submodules (remote submodule changes only) builtin/fetch: parse recurse-submodules-default at default options parsing builtin/fetch: factor submodule recurse parsing out to submodule config
2017-07-13Merge branch 'sb/hashmap-customize-comparison'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-15/+24
Update the hashmap API so that data to customize the behaviour of the comparison function can be specified at the time a hashmap is initialized. * sb/hashmap-customize-comparison: hashmap: migrate documentation from Documentation/technical into header patch-ids.c: use hashmap correctly hashmap.h: compare function has access to a data field
2017-07-13Merge branch 'ab/grep-lose-opt-regflags'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+0
Code cleanup. * ab/grep-lose-opt-regflags: grep: remove redundant REG_NEWLINE when compiling fixed regex grep: remove regflags from the public grep_opt API grep: remove redundant and verbose re-assignments to 0 grep: remove redundant "fixed" field re-assignment to 0 grep: adjust a redundant grep pattern type assignment grep: remove redundant double assignment to 0
2017-07-13ref-filter: consult want_color() before emitting colorsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
When color placeholders like %(color:red) are used in a ref-filter format, we unconditionally output the colors, even if the user has asked us for no colors. This usually isn't a problem when the user is constructing a --format on the command line, but it means we may do the wrong thing when the format is fed from a script or alias. For example: $ git config alias.b 'branch --format=%(color:green)%(refname)' $ git b --no-color should probably omit the green color. Likewise, running: $ git b >branches should probably also omit the color, just as we would for all baked-in coloring (and as we recently started to do for user-specified colors in --pretty formats). This commit makes both of those cases work by teaching the ref-filter code to consult want_color() before outputting any color. The color flag in ref_format defaults to "-1", which means we'll consult color.ui, which in turn defaults to the usual isatty() check on stdout. However, callers like git-branch which support their own color config (and command-line options) can override that. The new tests independently cover all three of the callers of ref-filter (for-each-ref, tag, and branch). Even though these seem redundant, it confirms that we've correctly plumbed through all of the necessary config to make colors work by default. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>