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If the user enables untracked cache, then
- move worktree to an unsupported filesystem
- or simply upgrade OS
- or move the whole (portable) disk from one machine to another
- or access a shared fs from another machine
there's no guarantee that untracked cache can still function properly.
Record the worktree location and OS footprint in the cache. If it
changes, err on the safe side and disable the cache. The user can
'update-index --untracked-cache' again to make sure all conditions are
met.
This adds a new requirement that setup_git_directory* must be called
before read_cache() because we need worktree location by then, or the
cache is dropped.
This change does not cover all bases, you can fool it if you try
hard. The point is to stop accidents.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The borrowed code in kwset API did not follow our usual convention
to use "unsigned char" to store values that range from 0-255.
* bw/kwset-use-unsigned:
kwset: use unsigned char to store values with high-bit set
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Code cleanups.
* rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin:
git-compat-util.h: remove redundant code
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Sun Studio on Solaris issues warnings about improper initialization
values being used when defining tolower_trans_tbl[] in ctype.c. The
array wants to store values with high-bit set and treat them as
values between 128 to 255. Unlike the rest of the Git codebase
where we explicitly specify 'unsigned char' for such variables and
arrays, however, kwset code we borrowed from elsewhere uses 'char'
for this and other variables.
Fix the declarations to explicitly use 'unsigned char' where
necessary to bring it in line with the rest of the Git.
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Since commit 3a0a3a89 ("git-compat-util.h: don't define _XOPEN_SOURCE
on cygwin", 23-11-2014) removed the definition of _XOPEN_SOURCE on
cygwin, the code within a pre-processor conditional further down the
file became redundant. Remove the redundant code.
This effectively reverts commit 41b20017 ("Fix an "implicit function
definition" warning", 03-03-2007).
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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An earlier workaround to squelch unhelpful deprecation warnings
from the complier on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required
version of the OS, which the user might want to raise (or lower)
for other reasons.
* es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx:
git-compat-util: do not step on MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED
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* km/gettext-n:
gettext.h: add parentheses around N_ expansion if supported
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"git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it
tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD".
* jk/blame-commit-label:
blame.c: fix garbled error message
use xstrdup_or_null to replace ternary conditionals
builtin/commit.c: use xstrdup_or_null instead of envdup
builtin/apply.c: use xstrdup_or_null instead of null_strdup
git-compat-util: add xstrdup_or_null helper
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MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED may be defined by the builder to a
specific version in order to produce compatible binaries for a
particular system. Blindly defining it to MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_6
is bad.
Additionally MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_6 will not be defined on older
systems and should AvailabilityMacros.h be included on such as
system an error will result. However, using the explicit value
of 1060 (which is what MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_6 is defined to) does
not solve the problem.
The changes that introduced stepping on MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN were
made in b195aa00 (git-compat-util: suppress unavoidable
Apple-specific deprecation warnings) to avoid deprecation
warnings.
Instead of blindly setting MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN to 1060 change
the definition of DEPRECATED_ATTRIBUTE to empty to avoid the
warnings. This preserves any MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED
setting while avoiding the warnings as intended by b195aa00.
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Build update for older RHEL.
* rh/autoconf-rhel3:
configure.ac: check for HMAC_CTX_cleanup
configure.ac: check for clock_gettime and CLOCK_MONOTONIC
configure.ac: check 'tv_nsec' field in 'struct stat'
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It's a common idiom to duplicate a string if it is non-NULL,
or pass a literal NULL through. This is already a one-liner
in C, but you do have to repeat the name of the string
twice. So if there's a function call, you must write:
const char *x = some_fun(...);
return x ? xstrdup(x) : NULL;
instead of (with this patch) just:
return xstrdup_or_null(some_fun(...));
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The gettext N_ macro is used to mark strings for translation
without actually translating them. At runtime the string is
expected to be passed to the gettext API for translation.
If two N_ macro invocations appear next to each other with only
whitespace (or nothing at all) between them, the two separate
strings will be marked for translation, but the preprocessor
will then silently combine the strings into one and at runtime
the string passed to gettext will not match the strings that
were translated so no translation will actually occur.
Avoid this by adding parentheses around the expansion of the
N_ macro so that instead of ending up with two adjacent strings
that are then combined by the preprocessor, two adjacent strings
surrounded by parentheses result instead which causes a compile
error so the mistake can be quickly found and corrected.
However, since these string literals are typically assigned to
static variables and not all compilers support parenthesized
string literal assignments, allow this to be controlled by the
Makefile with the default only enabled when the compiler is
known to support the syntax.
For now only __GNUC__ enables this by default which covers both
gcc and clang which should result in early detection of any
adjacent N_ macros.
Although the necessary tests make the affected files a bit less
elegant, the benefit of avoiding propagation of a translation-
marking error to all the translation teams thus creating extra
work for them when the error is eventually detected and fixed
would seem to outweigh the minor inelegance the additional
configuration tests introduce.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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OpenSSL version 0.9.6b and before defined the function HMAC_cleanup.
Newer versions define HMAC_CTX_cleanup. Check for HMAC_CTX_cleanup and
fall back to HMAC_cleanup when the newer function is missing.
Signed-off-by: Reuben Hawkins <reubenhwk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Squelch useless compiler warnings on Mac OS X.
* es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx:
git-compat-util: suppress unavoidable Apple-specific deprecation warnings
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Long overdue departure from the assumption that S_IFMT is shared by
everybody made in 2005.
* dm/compat-s-ifmt-for-zos:
compat: convert modes to use portable file type values
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Avoid compilation warnings on recent gcc toolchain on Cygwin.
* rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin:
git-compat-util.h: don't define _XOPEN_SOURCE on cygwin
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With the release of Mac OS X 10.7 in July 2011, Apple deprecated all
openssl.h functionality due to OpenSSL ABI (application binary
interface) instability, resulting in an explosion of compilation
warnings about deprecated SSL, SHA1, and X509 functions (among others).
61067954ce (cache.h: eliminate SHA-1 deprecation warnings on Mac OS X;
2013-05-19) and be4c828b76 (imap-send: eliminate HMAC deprecation
warnings on Mac OS X; 2013-05-19) attempted to ameliorate the situation
by taking advantage of drop-in replacement functionality provided by
Apple's (ABI-stable) CommonCrypto facility, however CommonCrypto
supplies only a subset of deprecated OpenSSL functionality, thus a host
of warnings remain.
Despite this shortcoming, it was hoped that Apple would ultimately
provide CommonCrypto replacements for all deprecated OpenSSL
functionality, and that the effort started by 61067954ce and be4c828b76
would be continued and eventually eliminate all deprecation warnings.
However, now 3.5 years later, and with Mac OS X at 10.10, the hoped-for
CommonCrypto replacements have not yet materialized, nor is there any
indication that they will be forthcoming.
These Apple-specific warnings are pure noise: they don't tell us
anything useful and we have no control over them, nor is Apple likely to
provide replacements any time soon. Such noise may obscure other
legitimate warnings, therefore silence them.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This adds simple wrapper functions around calls to stat(), fstat(),
and lstat() that translate the operating system's native file type
bits to those used by most operating systems. It also rewrites the
S_IF* macros to the common values, so all file type processing is
performed using the translated modes. This makes projects portable
across operating systems that use different file type definitions.
Only the file type bits may be affected by these compatibility
functions; the file permission bits are assumed to be 07777 and are
passed through unchanged.
Signed-off-by: David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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A recent update to the gcc compiler (v4.8.3-5 x86_64) on 64-bit
cygwin leads to several new warnings about the implicit declaration
of the memmem(), strlcpy() and strcasestr() functions. For example:
CC archive.o
archive.c: In function 'format_subst':
archive.c:44:3: warning: implicit declaration of function 'memmem' \
[-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
b = memmem(src, len, "$Format:", 8);
^
archive.c:44:5: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer \
without a cast [enabled by default]
b = memmem(src, len, "$Format:", 8);
^
This is because <string.h> on Cygwin used to always declare the
above functions, but a recent version of it no longer make them
visible when _XOPEN_SOURCE is set (even if _GNU_SOURCE and
_BSD_SOURCE is set).
In order to suppress the warnings, don't define the _XOPEN_SOURCE
macro on cygwin.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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z/OS port
* dm/port2zos:
compat/bswap.h: detect endianness from XL C compiler macros
Makefile: reorder linker flags in the git executable rule
git-compat-util.h: support variadic macros with the XL C compiler
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Tighten the logic to decide that an unreachable cruft is
sufficiently old by covering corner cases such as an ancient object
becoming reachable and then going unreachable again, in which case
its retention period should be prolonged.
* jk/prune-mtime: (28 commits)
drop add_object_array_with_mode
revision: remove definition of unused 'add_object' function
pack-objects: double-check options before discarding objects
repack: pack objects mentioned by the index
pack-objects: use argv_array
reachable: use revision machinery's --indexed-objects code
rev-list: add --indexed-objects option
rev-list: document --reflog option
t5516: test pushing a tag of an otherwise unreferenced blob
traverse_commit_list: support pending blobs/trees with paths
make add_object_array_with_context interface more sane
write_sha1_file: freshen existing objects
pack-objects: match prune logic for discarding objects
pack-objects: refactor unpack-unreachable expiration check
prune: keep objects reachable from recent objects
sha1_file: add for_each iterators for loose and packed objects
count-objects: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
count-objects: do not use xsize_t when counting object size
prune-packed: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
reachable: mark index blobs as SEEN
...
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When the XL C compiler is run with an appropriate language level or
suboption, it defines a feature test macro to indicate support for
variadic macros by defining __C99_MACRO_WITH_VA_ARGS C preprocessor
macro.
This was tested on z/OS, but it should also work on AIX according
to IBM documentation.
Signed-off-by: David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Allow us build with NO_PTHREADS=NoThanks compilation option.
* eb/no-pthreads:
Handle atexit list internaly for unthreaded builds
pack-objects: set number of threads before checking and warning
index-pack: fix compilation with NO_PTHREADS
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Wrap atexit()s calls on unthreaded builds to handle callback list
internally.
This is needed because on unthreaded builds, asyncs inherits parent's
atexit() list, that gets run as soon as the async exit()s (and again at
the end of async's parent process). That led to remove temporary files
too early.
Also remove a by-atexit-callback guard against this kind of issue in
clone.c, as this patch makes it redundant.
Fixes test 5537 (temporary shallow file vanished before unpack-objects
could open it)
BTW remove an unused variable in shallow.c.
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Etienne Buira <etienne.buira@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Otherwise, callers must do so or risk triggering warnings
-Wchar-subscript (and rightfully so; a signed char might
cause us to use a bogus negative index into the
hexval_table).
While we are dropping the now-unnecessary casts from the
caller in urlmatch.c, we can get rid of similar casts in
actually parsing the hex by using the hexval() helper, which
implicitly casts to unsigned (but note that we cannot
implement isxdigit in terms of hexval(), as it also casts
its return value to unsigned).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This behaves like unlink_or_warn except that on failure it writes the message
to its 'err' argument, which the caller can display in an appropriate way or
ignore.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Simplify the function warn_if_unremovable slightly. Additionally, change
behaviour slightly. If we failed to remove the object because the object
does not exist, we can still return success back to the caller since none of
the callers depend on "fail if the file did not exist".
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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setitmer(2) and related API elements can be configured from
Makefile but autoconf did not know about it.
* jt/itimer-autoconf:
autoconf: check for setitimer()
autoconf: check for struct itimerval
git-compat-util.h: add missing semicolon after struct itimerval
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Code cleanup.
* rs/realloc-array:
use REALLOC_ARRAY for changing the allocation size of arrays
add macro REALLOC_ARRAY
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* ss/compat-default-source-for-newer-gnu:
compat-util: add _DEFAULT_SOURCE define
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The macro ALLOC_GROW manages several aspects of dynamic memory
allocations for arrays: It performs overprovisioning in order to avoid
reallocations in future calls, updates the allocation size variable,
multiplies the item size and thus allows users to simply specify the
item count, performs the reallocation and updates the array pointer.
Sometimes this is too much. Add the macro REALLOC_ARRAY, which only
takes care of the latter three points and allows users to specfiy the
number of items the array can store. It can increase and also decrease
the size. Using the macro avoid duplicating the variable name and
takes care of the item sizes automatically.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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glibc has deprecated the use of _BSD_SOURCE define
warning "_BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE are deprecated, use _DEFAULT_SOURCE"
To make it easier to maintain a cross platform source code, that
warning can be suppressed by _DEFAULT_SOURCE.
Define both _BSD_SOURCE and _DEFAULT_SOURCE to clean-up the build.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Teach a few codepaths to punt (instead of dying) when large blobs
that would not fit in core are involved in the operation.
* nd/large-blobs:
diff: shortcut for diff'ing two binary SHA-1 objects
diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binary
diff.c: allow to pass more flags to diff_populate_filespec
sha1_file.c: do not die failing to malloc in unpack_compressed_entry
wrapper.c: introduce gentle xmallocz that does not die()
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* rs/inline-compat-path-macros:
turn path macros into inline function
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Reduce the use of fixed sized buffer passed to getcwd() calls
by introducing xgetcwd() helper.
* rs/strbuf-getcwd:
use strbuf_add_absolute_path() to add absolute paths
abspath: convert absolute_path() to strbuf
use xgetcwd() to set $GIT_DIR
use xgetcwd() to get the current directory or die
wrapper: add xgetcwd()
abspath: convert real_path_internal() to strbuf
abspath: use strbuf_getcwd() to remember original working directory
setup: convert setup_git_directory_gently_1 et al. to strbuf
unix-sockets: use strbuf_getcwd()
strbuf: add strbuf_getcwd()
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This hasn't been a problem in practice as almost all systems have the
setitimer() API (or it is provided by git in the case of mingw). This code
wasn't used in any default circumstances, as the build system never sets
NO_STRUCT_ITIMERVAL - this breakage only occured if the user asked for it.
We repair this case so we can rely on it in the following commits.
Signed-off-by: Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen <sortie@maxsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Add the helper function xgetcwd(), which returns the current directory
or dies. The returned string has to be free()d after use.
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
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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Use static inline functions instead of macros for has_dos_drive_prefix,
offset_1st_component, is_dir_sep and find_last_dir_sep in order to let
the compiler do type checking.
The definitions of offset_1st_component and is_dir_sep are switched
around because the former uses the latter.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This reverts commit 6f92e5ff3cdc813de8ef5327fd4bad492fb7d6c9, reversing
changes made to a02ad882a17b9d45f63ea448391ac5e9f7948222.
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* kb/perf-trace:
api-trace.txt: add trace API documentation
progress: simplify performance measurement by using getnanotime()
wt-status: simplify performance measurement by using getnanotime()
git: add performance tracing for git's main() function to debug scripts
trace: add trace_performance facility to debug performance issues
trace: add high resolution timer function to debug performance issues
trace: add 'file:line' to all trace output
trace: move code around, in preparation to file:line output
trace: add current timestamp to all trace output
trace: disable additional trace output for unit tests
trace: add infrastructure to augment trace output with additional info
sha1_file: change GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS logging to use trace API
Documentation/git.txt: improve documentation of 'GIT_TRACE*' variables
trace: improve trace performance
trace: remove redundant printf format attribute
trace: consistently name the format parameter
trace: move trace declarations from cache.h to new trace.h
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* ak/profile-feedback-build:
Fix profile feedback with -jN and add profile-fast
Run the perf test suite for profile feedback too
Don't define away __attribute__ on gcc
Use BASIC_FLAGS for profile feedback
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* jk/strip-suffix:
prepare_packed_git_one: refactor duplicate-pack check
verify-pack: use strbuf_strip_suffix
strbuf: implement strbuf_strip_suffix
index-pack: use strip_suffix to avoid magic numbers
use strip_suffix instead of ends_with in simple cases
replace has_extension with ends_with
implement ends_with via strip_suffix
add strip_suffix function
sha1_file: replace PATH_MAX buffer with strbuf in prepare_packed_git_one()
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This is useful to see where trace output came from.
Add 'const char *file, int line' parameters to the printing functions and
rename them to *_fl.
Add trace_printf* and trace_strbuf macros resolving to the *_fl functions
and let the preprocessor fill in __FILE__ and __LINE__.
As the trace_printf* functions take a variable number of arguments, this
requires variadic macros (i.e. '#define foo(...) foo_impl(__VA_ARGS__)'.
Though part of C99, it is unclear whether older compilers support this.
Thus keep the old functions and only enable variadic macros for GNUC and
MSVC 2005+ (_MSC_VER 1400). This has the nice side effect that the old
C-style declarations serve as documentation how the macros are to be used.
Print 'file:line ' as prefix to each trace line. Align the remaining trace
output at column 40 to accommodate 18 char file names + 4 digit line
number (currently there are 30 *.c files of length 18 and just 11 of 19).
Trace output from longer source files (e.g. builtin/receive-pack.c) will
not be aligned.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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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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Profile feedback sets -DNO_NORETURN, which causes the compat
header file to go into a default #else block. That #else
block defines away __attribute__(). Doing so causes all
kinds of problems with the Linux and gcc system headers:
in particular it makes the xmmintrin.h headers error out,
breaking the build.
Don't define away __attribute__ when __GNUC__ is set.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Further micro-optimization of a leaf-function.
* dt/refs-check-refname-component-sse:
refs.c: SSE2 optimizations for check_refname_component
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These two are almost the same function, with the exception
that has_extension only matches if there is content before
the suffix. So ends_with(".exe", ".exe") is true, but
has_extension would not be.
This distinction does not matter to any of the callers,
though, and we can just replace uses of has_extension with
ends_with. We prefer the "ends_with" name because it is more
generic, and there is nothing about the function that
requires it to be used for file extensions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The ends_with function is essentially a simplified version
of strip_suffix, in which we throw away the stripped length.
Implementing it as an inline on top of strip_suffix has two
advantages:
1. We save a bit of duplicated code.
2. The suffix is typically a string literal, and we call
strlen on it. By making the function inline, many
compilers can replace the strlen call with a constant.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Many callers of ends_with want to not only find out whether
a string has a suffix, but want to also strip it off. Doing
that separately has two minor problems:
1. We often run over the string twice (once to find
the suffix, and then once more to find its length to
subtract the suffix length).
2. We have to specify the suffix length again, which means
either a magic number, or repeating ourselves with
strlen("suffix").
Just as we have skip_prefix to avoid these cases with
starts_with, we can add a strip_suffix to avoid them with
ends_with.
Note that we add two forms of strip_suffix here: one that
takes a string, with the resulting length as an
out-parameter; and one that takes a pointer/length pair, and
reuses the length as an out-parameter. The latter is more
efficient when the caller already has the length (e.g., when
using strbufs), but it can be easy to confuse the two, as
they take the same number and types of parameters.
For that reason, the "mem" form puts its length parameter
next to the buffer (since they are a pair), and the string
form puts it at the end (since it is an out-parameter). The
compiler can notice when you get the order wrong, which
should help prevent writing one when you meant the other.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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