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"git replace" learned a "--graft" option to rewrite parents of a
commit.
* cc/replace-graft:
replace: add test for --graft with a mergetag
replace: check mergetags when using --graft
replace: add test for --graft with signed commit
replace: remove signature when using --graft
contrib: add convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh
Documentation: replace: add --graft option
replace: add test for --graft
replace: add --graft option
replace: cleanup redirection style in tests
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* jk/stable-prio-queue:
t5539: update a flaky test
paint_down_to_common: use prio_queue
prio-queue: make output stable with respect to insertion
prio-queue: factor out compare and swap operations
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* rs/code-cleaning:
remote-testsvn: use internal argv_array of struct child_process in cmd_import()
bundle: use internal argv_array of struct child_process in create_bundle()
fast-import: use hashcmp() for SHA1 hash comparison
transport: simplify fetch_objs_via_rsync() using argv_array
run-command: use internal argv_array of struct child_process in run_hook_ve()
use commit_list_count() to count the members of commit_lists
strbuf: use strbuf_addstr() for adding C strings
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Make sure all in-core commit objects are assigned a unique number
so that they can be annotated using the commit-slab API.
* jk/alloc-commit-id:
diff-tree: avoid lookup_unknown_object
object_as_type: set commit index
alloc: factor out commit index
add object_as_type helper for casting objects
parse_object_buffer: do not set object type
move setting of object->type to alloc_* functions
alloc: write out allocator definitions
alloc.c: remove the alloc_raw_commit_node() function
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It could be misleading to keep a signature in a
replacement commit, so let's remove it.
Note that there should probably be a way to sign
the replacement commit created when using --graft,
but this can be dealt with in another commit or
patch series.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* cc/for-each-mergetag:
commit: add for_each_mergetag()
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Call commit_list_count() instead of open-coding it repeatedly.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* rs/code-cleaning:
fsck: simplify fsck_commit_buffer() by using commit_list_count()
commit: use commit_list_append() instead of duplicating its code
merge: simplify merge_trivial() by using commit_list_append()
use strbuf_addch for adding single characters
use strbuf_addbuf for adding strbufs
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When we are traversing to find merge bases, we keep our
usual commit_list of commits to process, sorted by their
commit timestamp. As we add each parent to the list, we have
to spend "O(width of history)" to do the insertion, where
the width of history is the number of simultaneous lines of
development.
If we instead use a heap-based priority queue, we can do
these insertions in "O(log width)" time. This provides minor
speedups to merge-base calculations (timings in linux.git,
warm cache, best-of-five):
[before]
$ git merge-base HEAD v2.6.12
real 0m3.251s
user 0m3.148s
sys 0m0.104s
[after]
$ git merge-base HEAD v2.6.12
real 0m3.234s
user 0m3.108s
sys 0m0.128s
That's only an 0.5% speedup, but it does help protect us
against pathological cases.
While we are munging the "interesting" function, we also
take the opportunity to give it a more descriptive name, and
convert the return value to an int (we returned the first
interesting commit, but nobody ever looked at it).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When we call lookup_commit, lookup_tree, etc, the logic goes
something like:
1. Look for an existing object struct. If we don't have
one, allocate and return a new one.
2. Double check that any object we have is the expected
type (and complain and return NULL otherwise).
3. Convert an object with type OBJ_NONE (from a prior
call to lookup_unknown_object) to the expected type.
We can encapsulate steps 2 and 3 in a helper function which
checks whether we have the expected object type, converts
OBJ_NONE as appropriate, and returns the object.
Not only does this shorten the code, but it also provides
one central location for converting OBJ_NONE objects into
objects of other types. Future patches will use that to
enforce type-specific invariants.
Since this is a refactoring, we would want it to behave
exactly as the current code. It takes a little reasoning to
see that this is the case:
- for lookup_{commit,tree,etc} functions, we are just
pulling steps 2 and 3 into a function that does the same
thing.
- for the call in peel_object, we currently only do step 3
(but we want to consolidate it with the others, as
mentioned above). However, step 2 is a noop here, as the
surrounding conditional makes sure we have OBJ_NONE
(which we want to keep to avoid an extraneous call to
sha1_object_info).
- for the call in lookup_commit_reference_gently, we are
currently doing step 2 but not step 3. However, step 3
is a noop here. The object we got will have just come
from deref_tag, which must have figured out the type for
each object in order to know when to stop peeling.
Therefore the type will never be OBJ_NONE.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The "struct object" type implements basic object
polymorphism. Individual instances are allocated as
concrete types (or as a union type that can store any
object), and a "struct object *" can be cast into its real
type after examining its "type" enum. This means it is
dangerous to have a type field that does not match the
allocation (e.g., setting the type field of a "struct blob"
to "OBJ_COMMIT" would mean that a reader might read past the
allocated memory).
In most of the current code this is not a problem; the first
thing we do after allocating an object is usually to set its
type field by passing it to create_object. However, the
virtual commits we create in merge-recursive.c do not ever
get their type set. This does not seem to have caused
problems in practice, though (presumably because we always
pass around a "struct commit" pointer and never even look at
the type).
We can fix this oversight and also make it harder for future
code to get it wrong by setting the type directly in the
object allocation functions.
This will also make it easier to fix problems with commit
index allocation, as we know that any object allocated by
alloc_commit_node will meet the invariant that an object
with an OBJ_COMMIT type field will have a unique index
number.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Add 'verify-commit' to be used in a way similar to 'verify-tag' is
used. Further work on verifying the mergetags might be needed.
* mg/verify-commit:
t7510: test verify-commit
t7510: exit for loop with test result
verify-commit: scriptable commit signature verification
gpg-interface: provide access to the payload
gpg-interface: provide clear helper for struct signature_check
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* jk/skip-prefix:
http-push: refactor parsing of remote object names
imap-send: use skip_prefix instead of using magic numbers
use skip_prefix to avoid repeated calculations
git: avoid magic number with skip_prefix
fetch-pack: refactor parsing in get_ack
fast-import: refactor parsing of spaces
stat_opt: check extra strlen call
daemon: use skip_prefix to avoid magic numbers
fast-import: use skip_prefix for parsing input
use skip_prefix to avoid repeating strings
use skip_prefix to avoid magic numbers
transport-helper: avoid reading past end-of-string
fast-import: fix read of uninitialized argv memory
apply: use skip_prefix instead of raw addition
refactor skip_prefix to return a boolean
avoid using skip_prefix as a boolean
daemon: mark some strings as const
parse_diff_color_slot: drop ofs parameter
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In the same way as there is for_each_ref() to iterate on refs,
for_each_mergetag() allows the caller to iterate on the mergetags of
a given commit. Use it to rewrite show_mergetag() used in "git log".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Move "commit->buffer" out of the in-core commit object and keep
track of their lengths. Use this to optimize the code paths to
validate GPG signatures in commit objects.
* jk/commit-buffer-length:
reuse cached commit buffer when parsing signatures
commit: record buffer length in cache
commit: convert commit->buffer to a slab
commit-slab: provide a static initializer
use get_commit_buffer everywhere
convert logmsg_reencode to get_commit_buffer
use get_commit_buffer to avoid duplicate code
use get_cached_commit_buffer where appropriate
provide helpers to access the commit buffer
provide a helper to set the commit buffer
provide a helper to free commit buffer
sequencer: use logmsg_reencode in get_message
logmsg_reencode: return const buffer
do not create "struct commit" with xcalloc
commit: push commit_index update into alloc_commit_node
alloc: include any-object allocations in alloc_report
replace dangerous uses of strbuf_attach
commit_tree: take a pointer/len pair rather than a const strbuf
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In contrast to tag signatures, commit signatures are put into the
header, that is between the other header parts and commit messages.
Provide access to the commit content sans the signature, which is the
payload that is actually signed. Commit signature verification does the
parsing anyways, and callers may wish to act on or display the commit
object sans the signature.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The skip_prefix() function returns a pointer to the content
past the prefix, or NULL if the prefix was not found. While
this is nice and simple, in practice it makes it hard to use
for two reasons:
1. When you want to conditionally skip or keep the string
as-is, you have to introduce a temporary variable.
For example:
tmp = skip_prefix(buf, "foo");
if (tmp)
buf = tmp;
2. It is verbose to check the outcome in a conditional, as
you need extra parentheses to silence compiler
warnings. For example:
if ((cp = skip_prefix(buf, "foo"))
/* do something with cp */
Both of these make it harder to use for long if-chains, and
we tend to use starts_with() instead. However, the first line
of "do something" is often to then skip forward in buf past
the prefix, either using a magic constant or with an extra
strlen(3) (which is generally computed at compile time, but
means we are repeating ourselves).
This patch refactors skip_prefix() to return a simple boolean,
and to provide the pointer value as an out-parameter. If the
prefix is not found, the out-parameter is untouched. This
lets you write:
if (skip_prefix(arg, "foo ", &arg))
do_foo(arg);
else if (skip_prefix(arg, "bar ", &arg))
do_bar(arg);
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When we call show_signature or show_mergetag, we read the
commit object fresh via read_sha1_file and reparse its
headers. However, in most cases we already have the object
data available, attached to the "struct commit". This is
partially laziness in dealing with the memory allocation
issues, but partially defensive programming, in that we
would always want to verify a clean version of the buffer
(not one that might have been munged by other users of the
commit).
However, we do not currently ever munge the commit buffer,
and not using the already-available buffer carries a fairly
big performance penalty when we are looking at a large
number of commits. Here are timings on linux.git:
[baseline, no signatures]
$ time git log >/dev/null
real 0m4.902s
user 0m4.784s
sys 0m0.120s
[before]
$ time git log --show-signature >/dev/null
real 0m14.735s
user 0m9.964s
sys 0m0.944s
[after]
$ time git log --show-signature >/dev/null
real 0m9.981s
user 0m5.260s
sys 0m0.936s
Note that our user CPU time drops almost in half, close to
the non-signature case, but we do still spend more
wall-clock and system time, presumably from dealing with
gpg.
An alternative to this is to note that most commits do not
have signatures (less than 1% in this repo), yet we pay the
re-parsing cost for every commit just to find out if it has
a mergetag or signature. If we checked that when parsing the
commit initially, we could avoid re-examining most commits
later on. Even if we did pursue that direction, however,
this would still speed up the cases where we _do_ have
signatures. So it's probably worth doing either way.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Most callsites which use the commit buffer try to use the
cached version attached to the commit, rather than
re-reading from disk. Unfortunately, that interface provides
only a pointer to the NUL-terminated buffer, with no
indication of the original length.
For the most part, this doesn't matter. People do not put
NULs in their commit messages, and the log code is happy to
treat it all as a NUL-terminated string. However, some code
paths do care. For example, when checking signatures, we
want to be very careful that we verify all the bytes to
avoid malicious trickery.
This patch just adds an optional "size" out-pointer to
get_commit_buffer and friends. The existing callers all pass
NULL (there did not seem to be any obvious sites where we
could avoid an immediate strlen() call, though perhaps with
some further refactoring we could).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This will make it easier to manage the buffer cache
independently of the "struct commit" objects. It also
shrinks "struct commit" by one pointer, which may be
helpful.
Unfortunately it does not reduce the max memory size of
something like "rev-list", because rev-list uses
get_cached_commit_buffer() to decide not to show each
commit's output (and due to the design of slab_at, accessing
the slab requires us to extend it, allocating exactly the
same number of buffer pointers we dropped from the commit
structs).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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For both of these sites, we already do the "fallback to
read_sha1_file" trick. But we can shorten the code by just
using get_commit_buffer.
Note that the error cases are slightly different when
read_sha1_file fails. get_commit_buffer will die() if the
object cannot be loaded, or is a non-commit.
For get_sha1_oneline, this will almost certainly never
happen, as we will have just called parse_object (and if it
does, it's probably worth complaining about).
For record_author_date, the new behavior is probably better;
we notify the user of the error instead of silently ignoring
it. And because it's used only for sorting by author-date,
somebody examining a corrupt repo can fallback to the
regular traversal order.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Many sites look at commit->buffer to get more detailed
information than what is in the parsed commit struct.
However, we sometimes drop commit->buffer to save memory,
in which case the caller would need to read the object
afresh. Some callers do this (leading to duplicated code),
and others do not (which opens the possibility of a segfault
if somebody else frees the buffer).
Let's provide a pair of helpers, "get" and "unuse", that let
callers easily get the buffer. They will use the cached
buffer when possible, and otherwise load from disk using
read_sha1_file.
Note that we also need to add a "get_cached" variant which
returns NULL when we do not have a cached buffer. At first
glance this seems to defeat the purpose of "get", which is
to always provide a return value. However, some log code
paths actually use the NULL-ness of commit->buffer as a
boolean flag to decide whether to try printing the
commit. At least for now, we want to continue supporting
that use.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Right now this is just a one-liner, but abstracting it will
make it easier to change later.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This converts two lines into one at each caller. But more
importantly, it abstracts the concept of freeing the buffer,
which will make it easier to change later.
Note that we also need to provide a "detach" mechanism for a
tricky case in index-pack. We are passed a buffer for the
object generated by processing the incoming pack. If we are
not using --strict, we just calculate the sha1 on that
buffer and return, leaving the caller to free it. But if we
are using --strict, we actually attach that buffer to an
object, pass the object to the fsck functions, and then
detach the buffer from the object again (so that the caller
can free it as usual). In this case, we don't want to free
the buffer ourselves, but just make sure it is no longer
associated with the commit.
Note that we are making the assumption here that the
attach/detach process does not impact the buffer at all
(e.g., it is never reallocated or modified). That holds true
now, and we have no plans to change that. However, as we
abstract the commit_buffer code, this dependency becomes
less obvious. So when we detach, let's also make sure that
we get back the same buffer that we gave to the
commit_buffer code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Whenever we create a commit object via lookup_commit, we
give it a unique index to be used with the commit-slab API.
The theory is that any "struct commit" we create would
follow this code path, so any such struct would get an
index. However, callers could use alloc_commit_node()
directly (and get multiple commits with index 0).
Let's push the indexing into alloc_commit_node so that it's
hard for callers to get it wrong.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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While strbufs are pretty common throughout our code, it is
more flexible for functions to take a pointer/len pair than
a strbuf. It's easy to turn a strbuf into such a pair (by
dereferencing its members), but less easy to go the other
way (you can strbuf_attach, but that has implications about
memory ownership).
This patch teaches commit_tree (and its associated callers
and sub-functions) to take such a pair for the commit
message rather than a strbuf. This makes passing the buffer
around slightly more verbose, but means we can get rid of
some dangerous strbuf_attach calls in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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xcalloc() takes two arguments: the number of elements and their size.
reduce_heads() passes the arguments in reverse order, passing the
size of a commit*, followed by the number of commit* to be allocated.
Rearrange them so they are in the correct order.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gesiak <modocache@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Attempts to show where a single-strand-of-pearls break in "git log"
output.
* nd/log-show-linear-break:
log: add --show-linear-break to help see non-linear history
object.h: centralize object flag allocation
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While the field "flags" is mainly used by the revision walker, it is
also used in many other places. Centralize the whole flag allocation to
one place for a better overview (and easier to move flags if we have
too).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Replace open-coded reallocation with ALLOC_GROW() macro.
* dd/use-alloc-grow:
sha1_file.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in pretend_sha1_file()
read-cache.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_index_entry()
builtin/mktree.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in append_to_tree()
attr.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in handle_attr_line()
dir.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in create_simplify()
reflog-walk.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
replace_object.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in register_replace_object()
patch-ids.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_commit()
diffcore-rename.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
diff.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
commit.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in register_commit_graft()
cache-tree.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in find_subtree()
bundle.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_to_ref_list()
builtin/pack-objects.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in check_pbase_path()
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Replace a hand-rolled binary search with a call to our generic
binary search helper function.
* dd/find-graft-with-sha1-pos:
commit.c: use the generic "sha1_pos" function for lookup
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In record_author_date() & parse_gpg_output(), the callers of
starts_with() not just want to know if the string starts with the
prefix, but also can benefit from knowing the string that follows
the prefix.
By using skip_prefix(), we can do both at the same time.
Helped-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Dmitry S. Dolzhenko <dmitrys.dolzhenko@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Refactor binary search in "commit_graft_pos" function: use
generic "sha1_pos" function.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry S. Dolzhenko <dmitrys.dolzhenko@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* vm/octopus-merge-bases-simplify:
get_octopus_merge_bases(): cleanup redundant variable
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There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of
parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism.
* js/lift-parent-count-limit:
Remove the line length limit for graft files
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Code clean-up.
* nd/commit-tree-constness:
commit.c: make "tree" a const pointer in commit_tree*()
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pptr is needless. Some related code got cleaned as well.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Makarov <einmalfel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Support for grafts predates Git's strbuf, and hence it is understandable
that there was a hard-coded line length limit of 1023 characters (which
was chosen a bit awkwardly, given that it is *exactly* one byte short of
aligning with the 41 bytes occupied by a commit name and the following
space or new-line character).
While regular commit histories hardly win comprehensibility in general
if they merge more than twenty-two branches in one go, it is not Git's
business to limit grafts in such a way.
In this particular developer's case, the use case that requires
substantially longer graft lines to be supported is the visualization of
the commits' order implied by their changes: commits are considered to
have an implicit relationship iff exchanging them in an interactive
rebase would result in merge conflicts.
Thusly implied branches tend to be very shallow in general, and the
resulting thicket of implied branches is usually very wide; It is
actually quite common that *most* of the commits in a topic branch have
not even one implied parent, so that a final merge commit has about as
many implied parents as there are commits in said branch.
[jc: squashed in tests by Jonathan]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Remove a few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix comparison
functions, and rename them to starts_with and ends_with.
* cc/starts-n-ends-with:
replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
strbuf: introduce starts_with() and ends_with()
builtin/remote: remove postfixcmp() and use suffixcmp() instead
environment: normalize use of prefixcmp() by removing " != 0"
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Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.
The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:
$ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c |
grep -v strbuf\\.c |
xargs perl -pi -e '
s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g;
s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g;
s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g;
s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g;
'
on the result of preparatory changes in this series.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* jk/robustify-parse-commit:
checkout: do not die when leaving broken detached HEAD
use parse_commit_or_die instead of custom message
use parse_commit_or_die instead of segfaulting
assume parse_commit checks for NULL commit
assume parse_commit checks commit->object.parsed
log_tree_diff: die when we fail to parse a commit
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The parse_commit function will check whether it was passed a
NULL commit pointer, and if so, return an error. There is no
need for callers to check this separately.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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We currently call parse_commit and then assume we can
dereference the resulting "tree" struct field. If parsing
failed, however, that field is NULL and we end up
segfaulting.
Instead of a segfault, let's print an error message and die
a little more gracefully.
Note that this should never happen in practice, but may
happen in a corrupt repository.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Output from "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" looked strange,
because comparison was done with the previous ancestor that touched
the specified <pathspec>, causing the patches for paths outside the
pathspec to show more than the single commit has changed.
Tweak "git reflog -p" for the same reason using the same mechanism.
* tr/log-full-diff-keep-true-parents:
log: use true parents for diff when walking reflogs
log: use true parents for diff even when rewriting
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* bc/commit-invalid-utf8:
commit: typofix for xxFFF[EF] check
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We wanted to catch all codepoints that ends with FFFE and FFFF,
not with 0FFFE and 0FFFF.
Noticed and corrected by Peter Krefting.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When using pathspec filtering in combination with diff-based log
output, parent simplification happens before the diff is computed.
The diff is therefore against the *simplified* parents.
This works okay, arguably by accident, in the normal case:
simplification reduces to one parent as long as the commit is TREESAME
to it. So the simplified parent of any given commit must have the
same tree contents on the filtered paths as its true (unfiltered)
parent.
However, --full-diff breaks this guarantee, and indeed gives pretty
spectacular results when comparing the output of
git log --graph --stat ...
git log --graph --full-diff --stat ...
(--graph internally kicks in parent simplification, much like
--parents).
To fix it, store a copy of the parent list before simplification (in a
slab) whenever --full-diff is in effect. Then use the stored parents
instead of the simplified ones in the commit display code paths. The
latter do not actually check for --full-diff to avoid duplicated code;
they just grab the original parents if save_parents() has not been
called for this revision walk.
For ordinary commits it should be obvious that this is the right thing
to do.
Merge commits are a bit subtle. Observe that with default
simplification, merge simplification is an all-or-nothing decision:
either the merge is TREESAME to one parent and disappears, or it is
different from all parents and the parent list remains intact.
Redundant parents are not pruned, so the existing code also shows them
as a merge.
So if we do show a merge commit, the parent list just consists of the
rewrite result on each parent. Running, e.g., --cc on this in
--full-diff mode is not very useful: if any commits were skipped, some
hunks will disagree with all sides of the merge (with one side,
because commits were skipped; with the others, because they didn't
have those changes in the first place). This triggers --cc showing
these hunks spuriously.
Therefore I believe that even for merge commits it is better to show
the diffs wrt. the original parents.
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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