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This adds "attribute macros" (for lack of better name). So far,
we have low-level attributes such as crlf and diff, which are
defined in operational terms --- setting or unsetting them on a
particular path directly affects what is done to the path. For
example, in order to decline diffs or crlf conversions on a
binary blob, no diffs on PostScript files, and treat all other
files normally, you would have something like these:
* diff crlf
*.ps !diff
proprietary.o !diff !crlf
That is fine as the operation goes, but gets unwieldy rather
rapidly, when we start adding more low-level attributes that are
defined in operational terms. A near-term example of such an
attribute would be 'merge-3way' which would control if git
should attempt the usual 3-way file-level merge internally, or
leave merging to a specialized external program of user's
choice. When it is added, we do _not_ want to force the users
to update the above to:
* diff crlf merge-3way
*.ps !diff
proprietary.o !diff !crlf !merge-3way
The way this patch solves this issue is to realize that the
attributes the user is assigning to paths are not defined in
terms of operations but in terms of what they are.
All of the three low-level attributes usually make sense for
most of the files that sane SCM users have git operate on (these
files are typically called "text'). Only a few cases, such as
binary blob, need exception to decline the "usual treatment
given to text files" -- and people mark them as "binary".
So this allows the $GIT_DIR/info/alternates and .gitattributes
at the toplevel of the project to also specify attributes that
assigns other attributes. The syntax is '[attr]' followed by an
attribute name followed by a list of attribute names:
[attr] binary !diff !crlf !merge-3way
When "binary" attribute is set to a path, if the path has not
got diff/crlf/merge-3way attribute set or unset by other rules,
this rule unsets the three low-level attributes.
It is expected that the user level .gitattributes will be
expressed mostly in terms of attributes based on what the files
are, and the above sample would become like this:
(built-in attribute configuration)
[attr] binary !diff !crlf !merge-3way
* diff crlf merge-3way
(project specific .gitattributes)
proprietary.o binary
(user preference $GIT_DIR/info/attributes)
*.ps !diff
There are a few caveats.
* As described above, you can define these macros only in
$GIT_DIR/info/attributes and toplevel .gitattributes.
* There is no attempt to detect circular definition of macro
attributes, and definitions are evaluated from bottom to top
as usual to fill in other attributes that have not yet got
values. The following would work as expected:
[attr] text diff crlf
[attr] ps text !diff
*.ps ps
while this would most likely not (I haven't tried):
[attr] ps text !diff
[attr] text diff crlf
*.ps ps
* When a macro says "[attr] A B !C", saying that a path does
not have attribute A does not let you tell anything about
attributes B or C. That is, given this:
[attr] text diff crlf
[attr] ps text !diff
*.txt !ps
path hello.txt, which would match "*.txt" pattern, would have
"ps" attribute set to zero, but that does not make text
attribute of hello.txt set to false (nor diff attribute set to
true).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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This adds the basic infrastructure to assign attributes to
paths, in a way similar to what the exclusion mechanism does
based on $GIT_DIR/info/exclude and .gitignore files.
An attribute is just a simple string that does not contain any
whitespace. They can be specified in $GIT_DIR/info/attributes
file, and .gitattributes file in each directory.
Each line in these files defines a pattern matching rule.
Similar to the exclusion mechanism, a later match overrides an
earlier match in the same file, and entries from .gitattributes
file in the same directory takes precedence over the ones from
parent directories. Lines in $GIT_DIR/info/attributes file are
used as the lowest precedence default rules.
A line is either a comment (an empty line, or a line that begins
with a '#'), or a rule, which is a whitespace separated list of
tokens. The first token on the line is a shell glob pattern.
The rest are names of attributes, each of which can optionally
be prefixed with '!'. Such a line means "if a path matches this
glob, this attribute is set (or unset -- if the attribute name
is prefixed with '!'). For glob matching, the same "if the
pattern does not have a slash in it, the basename of the path is
matched with fnmatch(3) against the pattern, otherwise, the path
is matched with the pattern with FNM_PATHNAME" rule as the
exclusion mechanism is used.
This does not define what an attribute means. Tying an
attribute to various effects it has on git operation for paths
that have it will be specified separately.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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* maint:
GIT 1.5.1.1
cvsserver: Fix handling of diappeared files on update
fsck: do not complain on detached HEAD.
(encode_85, decode_85): Mark source buffer pointer as "const".
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Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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This merge strategy largely piggy-backs on git-merge-recursive.
When merging trees A and B, if B corresponds to a subtree of A,
B is first adjusted to match the tree structure of A, instead of
reading the trees at the same level. This adjustment is also
done to the common ancestor tree.
If you are pulling updates from git-gui repository into git.git
repository, the root level of the former corresponds to git-gui/
subdirectory of the latter. The tree object of git-gui's toplevel
is wrapped in a fake tree object, whose sole entry has name 'git-gui'
and records object name of the true tree, before being used by
the 3-way merge code.
If you are merging the other way, only the git-gui/ subtree of
git.git is extracted and merged into git-gui's toplevel.
The detection of corresponding subtree is done by comparing the
pathnames and types in the toplevel of the tree.
Heuristics galore! That's the git way ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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* jc/index-output:
git-read-tree --index-output=<file>
_GIT_INDEX_OUTPUT: allow plumbing to output to an alternative index file.
Conflicts:
builtin-apply.c
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This function was not called "add_file_to_cache()" only because
an ancient program, update-cache, used that name as an internal
function name that does something slightly different. Now that
is gone, we can take over the better name.
The plan is to name all functions that operate on the default
index xxx_cache(). Later patches create a variant of them that
take an explicit parameter xxx_index(), and then turn
xxx_cache() functions into macros that use "the_index".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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This error message should not usually trigger, but the function
make_cache_entry() called by add_cacheinfo() can return early
without calling into refresh_cache_entry() that sets cache_errno.
Also the error message had a wrong function name reported, and
it did not say anything about which path failed either.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Let's avoid the open coded pack index reference in pack-object and use
nth_packed_object_sha1() instead. This will help encapsulating index
format differences in one place.
And while at it there is no reason to copy SHA1's over and over while a
direct pointer to it in the index will do just fine.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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This corrects the interface mistake of the previous one, and
gives a command line parameter to the only plumbing command that
currently needs it: "git-read-tree".
We can add the calls to set_alternate_index_output() to other
plumbing commands that update the index if/when needed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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When defined, this allows plumbing commands that update the
index (add, apply, checkout-index, merge-recursive, mv,
read-tree, rm, update-index, and write-tree) to write their
resulting index to an alternative index file while holding a
lock to the original index file. With this, git-commit that
jumps the index does not have to make an extra copy of the index
file, and more importantly, it can do the update while holding
the lock on the index.
However, I think the interface to let an environment variable
specify the output is a mistake, as shown in the documentation.
If a curious user has the environment variable set to something
other than the file GIT_INDEX_FILE points at, almost everything
will break. This should instead be a command line parameter to
tell these plumbing commands to write the result in the named
file, to prevent stupid mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Use hash_sha1_file() instead of duplicating code to compute object SHA1.
While at it make it accept a const pointer.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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The new configuration variable core.deltaBaseCacheLimit allows the
user to control how much memory they are willing to give to Git for
caching base objects of deltas. This is not normally meant to be
a user tweakable knob; the "out of the box" settings are meant to
be suitable for almost all workloads.
We default to 16 MiB under the assumption that the cache is not
meant to consume all of the user's available memory, and that the
cache's main purpose was to cache trees, for faster path limiters
during revision traversal. Since trees tend to be relatively small
objects, this relatively small limit should still allow a large
number of objects.
On the other hand we don't want the cache to start storing 200
different versions of a 200 MiB blob, as this could easily blow
the entire address space of a 32 bit process.
We evict OBJ_BLOB from the cache first (credit goes to Junio) as
we want to favor OBJ_TREE within the cache. These are the objects
that have the highest inflate() startup penalty, as they tend to
be small and thus don't have that much of a chance to ammortize
that penalty over the entire data.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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* sp/run-command:
Use run_command within send-pack
Use run_command within receive-pack to invoke index-pack
Use run_command within merge-index
Use run_command for proxy connections
Use RUN_GIT_CMD to run push backends
Correct new compiler warnings in builtin-revert
Replace fork_with_pipe in bundle with run_command
Teach run-command to redirect stdout to /dev/null
Teach run-command about stdout redirection
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Especially with the new index format to come, it is more appropriate
to encapsulate more into check_packed_git_idx() and assume less of the
index format in struct packed_git.
To that effect, the index_base is renamed to index_data with void * type
so it is not used directly but other pointers initialized with it. This
allows for a couple pointer cast removal, as well as providing a better
generic name to grep for when adding support for new index versions or
formats.
And index_data is declared const too while at it.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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* jc/repack:
prepare_packed_git(): sort packs by age and localness.
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The new builtin-revert code introduces a few new compiler errors
when I'm building with my stricter set of checks enabled in CFLAGS.
These all just stem from trying to store a constant string into
a non-const char*. Simple fix, make the variables const char*.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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When accessing objects, we first look for them in packs that
are linked together in the reverse order of discovery.
Since younger packs tend to contain more recent objects, which
are more likely to be accessed often, and local packs tend to
contain objects more relevant to our specific projects, sort the
list of packs before starting to access them. In addition,
favoring local packs over the ones borrowed from alternates can
be a win when alternates are mounted on network file systems.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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In order to track and build on top of a branch 'topic' you track from
your upstream repository, you often would end up doing this sequence:
git checkout -b mytopic origin/topic
git config --add branch.mytopic.remote origin
git config --add branch.mytopic.merge refs/heads/topic
This would first fork your own 'mytopic' branch from the 'topic'
branch you track from the 'origin' repository; then it would set up two
configuration variables so that 'git pull' without parameters does the
right thing while you are on your own 'mytopic' branch.
This commit adds a --track option to git-branch, so that "git
branch --track mytopic origin/topic" performs the latter two actions
when creating your 'mytopic' branch.
If the configuration variable branch.autosetupmerge is set to true, you
do not have to pass the --track option explicitly; further patches in
this series allow setting the variable with a "git remote add" option.
The configuration variable is off by default, and there is a --no-track
option to countermand it even if the variable is set.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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* jc/fsck:
fsck: exit with non-zero status upon errors
unpack_sha1_file(): detect corrupt loose object files.
fsck: fix broken loose object check.
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Not all platforms have declared 'unsigned long' to be a 64 bit value,
but we want to support a 64 bit packfile (or close enough anyway)
in the near future as some projects are getting large enough that
their packed size exceeds 4 GiB.
By using off_t, the POSIX type that is declared to mean an offset
within a file, we support whatever maximum file size the underlying
operating system will handle. For most modern systems this is up
around 2^60 or higher.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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As we permit up to 2^32-1 objects in a single packfile we cannot
use a signed int to represent the object offset within a packfile,
after 2^31-1 objects we will start seeing negative indexes and
error out or compute bad addresses within the mmap'd index.
This is a minor cleanup that does not introduce any significant
logic changes. It is roach free.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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We shouldn't attempt to assign constant strings into char*, as the
string is not writable at runtime. Likewise we should always be
treating unsigned values as unsigned values, not as signed values.
Most of these are very straightforward. The only exception is the
(unnecessary) xstrdup/free in builtin-branch.c for the detached
head case. Since this is a user-level interactive type program
and that particular code path is executed no more than once, I feel
that the extra xstrdup call is well worth the easy elimination of
this warning.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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We did not detect broken loose object files, either when
underlying inflate() signalled the breakage, nor inflate()
finished and we had garbage trailing at the end. We do better
now.
We also make unpack_sha1_file() a static function to
sha1_file.c, since it is not used by anybody outside.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Some file systems that can host git repositories and their working copies
do not support symbolic links. But then if the repository contains a symbolic
link, it is impossible to check out the working copy.
This patch enables partial support of symbolic links so that it is possible
to check out a working copy on such a file system. A new flag
core.symlinks (which is true by default) can be set to false to indicate
that the filesystem does not support symbolic links. In this case, symbolic
links that exist in the trees are checked out as small plain files, and
checking in modifications of these files preserve the symlink property in
the database (as long as an entry exists in the index).
Of course, this does not magically make symbolic links work on such defective
file systems; hence, this solution does not help if the working copy relies
on that an entry is a real symbolic link.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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* js/commit-format:
show_date(): rename the "relative" parameter to "mode"
Actually make print_wrapped_text() useful
pretty-formats: add 'format:<string>'
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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This allows for keeping the common idiom which consists of using
negative values to signal error conditions by ensuring that the enum
will be a signed type.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Now, show_date() can print three different kinds of dates: normal,
relative and short (%Y-%m-%s) dates.
To achieve this, the "int relative" was changed to "enum date_mode
mode", which has three states: DATE_NORMAL, DATE_RELATIVE and
DATE_SHORT.
Since existing users of show_date() only call it with relative_date
being either 0 or 1, and DATE_NORMAL and DATE_RELATIVE having these
values, no behaviour is changed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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We currently have two parallel notation for dealing with object types
in the code: a string and a numerical value. One of them is obviously
redundent, and the most used one requires more stack space and a bunch
of strcmp() all over the place.
This is an initial step for the removal of the version using a char array
found in object reading code paths. The patch is unfortunately large but
there is no sane way to split it in smaller parts without breaking the
system.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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* lt/crlf:
Teach core.autocrlf to 'git apply'
t0020: add test for auto-crlf
Make AutoCRLF ternary variable.
Lazy man's auto-CRLF
* jc/apply-config:
t4119: test autocomputing -p<n> for traditional diff input.
git-apply: guess correct -p<n> value for non-git patches.
git-apply: notice "diff --git" patch again
Fix botched "leak fix"
t4119: add test for traditional patch and different p_value
apply: fix memory leak in prefix_one()
git-apply: require -p<n> when working in a subdirectory.
git-apply: do not lose cwd when run from a subdirectory.
Teach 'git apply' to look at $HOME/.gitconfig even outside of a repository
Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config
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When we do not trust executable bit from lstat(2), we copied
existing ce_mode bits without checking if the filesystem object
is a regular file (which is the only thing we apply the "trust
executable bit" business) nor if the blob in the index is a
regular file (otherwise, we should do the same as registering a
new regular file, which is to default non-executable).
Noticed by Johannes Sixt.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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It currently does NOT know about file attributes, so it does its
conversion purely based on content. Maybe that is more in the "git
philosophy" anyway, since content is king, but I think we should try to do
the file attributes to turn it off on demand.
Anyway, BY DEFAULT it is off regardless, because it requires a
[core]
AutoCRLF = true
in your config file to be enabled. We could make that the default for
Windows, of course, the same way we do some other things (filemode etc).
But you can actually enable it on UNIX, and it will cause:
- "git update-index" will write blobs without CRLF
- "git diff" will diff working tree files without CRLF
- "git checkout" will write files to the working tree _with_ CRLF
and things work fine.
Funnily, it actually shows an odd file in git itself:
git clone -n git test-crlf
cd test-crlf
git config core.autocrlf true
git checkout
git diff
shows a diff for "Documentation/docbook-xsl.css". Why? Because we have
actually checked in that file *with* CRLF! So when "core.autocrlf" is
true, we'll always generate a *different* hash for it in the index,
because the index hash will be for the content _without_ CRLF.
Is this complete? I dunno. It seems to work for me. It doesn't use the
filename at all right now, and that's probably a deficiency (we could
certainly make the "is_binary()" heuristics also take standard filename
heuristics into account).
I don't pass in the filename at all for the "index_fd()" case
(git-update-index), so that would need to be passed around, but this
actually works fine.
NOTE NOTE NOTE! The "is_binary()" heuristics are totally made-up by yours
truly. I will not guarantee that they work at all reasonable. Caveat
emptor. But it _is_ simple, and it _is_ safe, since it's all off by
default.
The patch is pretty simple - the biggest part is the new "convert.c" file,
but even that is really just basic stuff that anybody can write in
"Teaching C 101" as a final project for their first class in programming.
Not to say that it's bug-free, of course - but at least we're not talking
about rocket surgery here.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Since "git log origin/master" uses dwim_log() to match
"refs/remotes/origin/master", it makes sense to do that for
"git log --reflog", too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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The new interface allows an application to temporarily hash a
small number of objects and pretend that they are available in
the object store without actually writing them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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This makes the functionality of ident.c::get_ident() available to
other callers.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Back when only handful commands that created commit and tag were
the only users of committer identity information, it made sense
to explicitly call setup_ident() to pre-fill the default value
from the gecos information. But it is much simpler for programs
to make the call automatic when get_ident() is called these days,
since many more programs want to use the information when updating
the reflog.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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The code that uses committer_info() in reflog can barf and die
whenever it is asked to update a ref. And I do not think
calling ignore_missing_committer_name() upfront like recent
receive-pack did in the aplication is a reasonable workaround.
What the patch does.
- git_committer_info() takes one parameter. It used to be "if
this is true, then die() if the name is not available due to
bad GECOS, otherwise issue a warning once but leave the name
empty". The reason was because we wanted to prevent bad
commits from being made by git-commit-tree (and its
callers). The value 0 is only used by "git var -l".
Now it takes -1, 0 or 1. When set to -1, it does not
complain but uses the pw->pw_name when name is not
available. Existing 0 and 1 values mean the same thing as
they used to mean before. 0 means issue warnings and leave
it empty, 1 means barf and die.
- ignore_missing_committer_name() and its existing caller
(receive-pack, to set the reflog) have been removed.
- git-format-patch, to come up with the phoney message ID when
asked to thread, now passes -1 to git_committer_info(). This
codepath uses only the e-mail part, ignoring the name. It
used to barf and die. The other call in the same program
when asked to add signed-off-by line based on committer
identity still passes 1 to make sure it barfs instead of
adding a bogus s-o-b line.
- log_ref_write in refs.c, to come up with the name to record
who initiated the ref update in the reflog, passes -1. It
used to barf and die.
The last change means that git-update-ref, git-branch, and
commit walker backends can now be used in a repository with
reflog by somebody who does not have the user identity required
to make a commit. They all used to barf and die.
I've run tests and all of them seem to pass, and also tried "git
clone" as a user whose GECOS is empty -- git clone works again
now (it was broken when reflog was enabled by default).
But this definitely needs extra sets of eyeballs.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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For example, it makes no sense to check the presence of a file
named "HEAD" when calling "git log HEAD" in a bare repository.
Noticed by Han-Wen Nienhuys.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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I'll be using this in another function to figure out what to
pass to resolve_ref().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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This attempts to finish what Simon started in the previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Trivial patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Originally I introduced read_or_die for the purpose of reading
the pack header and trailer, and I was too lazy to print proper
error messages.
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:
> For a read error, at the very least you have to say WHICH FILE
> couldn't be read, because it's usually a matter of some file just
> being too short, not some system-wide problem.
and of course Linus is right. Make it so.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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* jc/bare:
Disallow working directory commands in a bare repository.
git-fetch: allow updating the current branch in a bare repository.
Introduce is_bare_repository() and core.bare configuration variable
Move initialization of log_all_ref_updates
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* jc/detached-head:
git-checkout: handle local changes sanely when detaching HEAD
git-checkout: safety check for detached HEAD checks existing refs
git-checkout: fix branch name output from the command
git-checkout: safety when coming back from the detached HEAD state.
git-checkout: rewording comments regarding detached HEAD.
git-checkout: do not warn detaching HEAD when it is already detached.
Detached HEAD (experimental)
git-branch: show detached HEAD
git-status: show detached HEAD
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We have a number of badly checked read() calls. Often we are
expecting read() to read exactly the size we requested or fail, this
fails to handle interrupts or short reads. Add a read_in_full()
providing those semantics. Otherwise we at a minimum need to check
for EINTR and EAGAIN, where this is appropriate use xread().
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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We recently introduced a write_in_full() which would either write
the specified object or emit an error message and fail. In order
to fix the read side we now want to introduce a read_in_full()
but without an error emit. This patch cleans up the naming
of this family of calls:
1) convert the existing write_or_whine() to write_or_whine_pipe()
to better indicate its pipe specific nature,
2) convert the existing write_in_full() calls to write_or_whine()
to better indicate its nature,
3) introduce a write_in_full() providing a write or fail semantic,
and
4) convert write_or_whine() and write_or_whine_pipe() to use
write_in_full().
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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This allows "git checkout v1.4.3" to dissociate the HEAD of
repository from any branch. After this point, "git branch"
starts reporting that you are not on any branch. You can go
back to an existing branch by saying "git checkout master", for
example.
This is still experimental. While I think it makes sense to
allow commits on top of detached HEAD, it is rather dangerous
unless you are careful in the current form. Next "git checkout
master" will obviously lose what you have done, so we might want
to require "git checkout -f" out of a detached HEAD if we find
that the HEAD commit is not an ancestor of any other branches.
There is no such safety valve implemented right now.
On the other hand, the reason the user did not start the ad-hoc
work on a new branch with "git checkout -b" was probably because
the work was of a throw-away nature, so the convenience of not
having that safety valve might be even better. The user, after
accumulating some commits on top of a detached HEAD, can always
create a new branch with "git checkout -b" not to lose useful
work done while the HEAD was detached.
We'll see.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Junio C Hamano
Jim Meyering
Nicolas Pitre
Shawn O. Pearce
Paolo Bonzini
Johannes Sixt
Johannes Schindelin
Linus Torvalds
Chris Wedgwood
Andy Whitcroft