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2012-08-27Merge branch 'jk/maint-null-in-trees'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
We do not want a link to 0{40} object stored anywhere in our objects. * jk/maint-null-in-trees: fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries do not write null sha1s to on-disk index diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
2012-08-22Merge branch 'nd/index-errno'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+1
Assignments to errno before calling system functions that used to matter in the old code were left behind after the code structure changed sufficiently to make them useless. * nd/index-errno: read_index_from: remove bogus errno assignments
2012-08-06read_index_from: remove bogus errno assignmentsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-5/+1
These assignments comes from the very first commit e83c516 (Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell - 2005-04-07). Back then we did not die() when errors happened so correct errno was required. Since 5d1a5c0 ([PATCH] Better error reporting for "git status" - 2005-10-01), read_index_from() learned to die rather than just return -1 and these assignments became irrelevant. Remove them. While at it, move die_errno() next to xmmap() call because it's the mmap's error code that we care about. Otherwise if close(fd); fails, it could overwrite mmap's errno. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-29do not write null sha1s to on-disk indexLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+2
We should never need to write the null sha1 into an index entry (short of the 1 in 2^160 chance that somebody actually has content that hashes to it). If we attempt to do so, it is much more likely that it is a bug, since we use the null sha1 as a sentinel value to mean "not valid". The presence of null sha1s in the index (which can come from, among other things, "update-index --cacheinfo", or by reading a corrupted tree) can cause problems for later readers, because they cannot distinguish the literal null sha1 from its use a sentinel value. For example, "git diff-files" on such an entry would make it appear as if it is stat-dirty, and until recently, the diff code assumed such an entry meant that we should be diffing a working tree file rather than a blob. Ideally, we would stop such entries from entering even our in-core index. However, we do sometimes legitimately add entries with null sha1s in order to represent these sentinel situations; simply forbidding them in add_index_entry breaks a lot of the existing code. However, we can at least make sure that our in-core sentinel representation never makes it to disk. To be thorough, we will test an attempt to add both a blob and a submodule entry. In the former case, we might run into problems anyway because we will be missing the blob object. But in the latter case, we do not enforce connectivity across gitlink entries, making this our only point of enforcement. The current implementation does not care which type of entry we are seeing, but testing both cases helps future-proof the test suite in case that changes. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23Merge branch 'tg/ce-namelen-field'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-28/+39
Split lower bits of ce_flags field and creates a new ce_namelen field in the in-core index structure. * tg/ce-namelen-field: Strip namelen out of ce_flags into a ce_namelen field
2012-07-15Merge branch 'tg/maint-cache-name-compare'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+9
Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes, in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially replacing index entries instead of adding. * tg/maint-cache-name-compare: cache_name_compare(): do not truncate while comparing paths
2012-07-11Strip namelen out of ce_flags into a ce_namelen fieldLibravatar Thomas Gummerer1-28/+39
Strip the name length from the ce_flags field and move it into its own ce_namelen field in struct cache_entry. This will both give us a tiny bit of a performance enhancement when working with long pathnames and is a refactoring for more readability of the code. It enhances readability, by making it more clear what is a flag, and where the length is stored and make it clear which functions use stages in comparisions and which only use the length. It also makes CE_NAMEMASK private, so that users don't mistakenly write the name length in the flags. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-11Merge branch 'tg/maint-cache-name-compare' into tg/ce-namelen-fieldLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+9
* tg/maint-cache-name-compare: cache_name_compare(): do not truncate while comparing paths
2012-07-11cache_name_compare(): do not truncate while comparing pathsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+9
We failed to use ce_namelen() equivalent and instead only compared up to the CE_NAMEMASK bytes by mistake. Adding an overlong path that shares the same common prefix as an existing entry in the index did not add a new entry, but instead replaced the existing one, as the result. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-08Replace strlen() with ce_namelen()Libravatar Thomas Gummerer1-2/+2
Replace strlen(ce->name) with ce_namelen() in a couple of places which gives us some additional bits of performance. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-02Merge branch 'jc/index-v4'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-42/+223
Trivially shrinks the on-disk size of the index file to save both I/O and checksum overhead. The topic should give a solid base to build on further updates, with the code refactoring in its earlier parts, and the backward compatibility mechanism in its later parts. * jc/index-v4: index-v4: document the entry format unpack-trees: preserve the index file version of original update-index: upgrade/downgrade on-disk index version read-cache.c: write prefix-compressed names in the index read-cache.c: read prefix-compressed names in index on-disk version v4 read-cache.c: move code to copy incore to ondisk cache to a helper function read-cache.c: move code to copy ondisk to incore cache to a helper function read-cache.c: report the header version we do not understand read-cache.c: make create_from_disk() report number of bytes it consumed read-cache.c: allow unaligned mapping of the index file cache.h: hide on-disk index details varint: make it available outside the context of pack
2012-04-04read-cache.c: write prefix-compressed names in the indexLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+54
Teach the code to write the index in the v4 on-disk format. Record the format version of the on-disk index we read from in the index_state, and use the format when writing the new index out. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-03read-cache.c: read prefix-compressed names in index on-disk version v4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+51
Because the entries are sorted by path, adjacent entries in the index tend to share the leading components of them, and it makes sense to only store the differences in later entries. In the v4 on-disk format of the index, each on-disk cache entry stores the number of bytes to be stripped from the end of the previous name, and the bytes to append to the result, to come up with its name. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-03read-cache.c: move code to copy incore to ondisk cache to a helper functionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+17
This makes the change in a later patch look less scary. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-03read-cache.c: move code to copy ondisk to incore cache to a helper functionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-19/+25
This makes the change in a later patch look less scary. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-03read-cache.c: report the header version we do not understandLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
Instead of just saying "bad index version", report the value we read from the disk. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-03read-cache.c: make create_from_disk() report number of bytes it consumedLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+6
The function is the one that is reading from the data stream. It only is natural to make it responsible for reporting this number, not the caller. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-03read-cache.c: allow unaligned mapping of the index fileLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-12/+32
Both the on-disk format v2 and v3 pads the "name" field to the multiple of eight to make sure that various quantities in network long/short type can be accessed with ntohl/ntohs without having to worry about alignment, but this forces us to waste disk I/O bandwidth. Introduce ntoh_s()/ntoh_l() macros that the callers can use as if they were the regular ntohs()/ntohl() on a field that may not be aligned correctly. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-03cache.h: hide on-disk index detailsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+54
The on-disk format of the index file is a detail whose implementation is neatly encapsulated in read-cache.c; there is no need to expose it to the general public that include the cache.h header file. Also add a prominent mark to read-cache.c to delineate the parts that deal with the index file I/O routines from the remainder of the file. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-23make is_empty_blob_sha1 available everywhereLibravatar Jeff King1-10/+0
The read-cache implementation defines this static function, but it is a generally useful concept in git. Let's give the empty blob the same treatment as the empty tree, providing both hex and binary forms of the sha1. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17refresh_index: do not show unmerged path that is outside pathspecLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+9
When running "git add --refresh <pathspec>", we incorrectly showed the path that is unmerged even if it is outside the specified pathspec, even though we did honor pathspec and refreshed only the paths that matched. Note that this cange does not affect "git update-index --refresh"; for hysterical raisins, it does not take a pathspec (it takes real paths) and more importantly itss command line options are parsed and executed one by one as they are encountered, so "git update-index --refresh foo" means "first refresh the index, and then update the entry 'foo' by hashing the contents in file 'foo'", not "refresh only entry 'foo'". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-09Merge branch 'rs/allocate-cache-entry-individually'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-51/+32
* rs/allocate-cache-entry-individually: cache.h: put single NUL at end of struct cache_entry read-cache.c: allocate index entries individually Conflicts: read-cache.c
2011-11-18refresh_index: make porcelain output more specificLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+21
If you have a deleted file and a porcelain refreshes the cache, we print: Unstaged changes after reset: M file This is technically correct, in that the file is modified, but it's friendlier to the user if we further differentiate the case of a deleted file (especially because this output looks a lot like "diff --name-status", which would also make the distinction). Similarly, we can distinguish typechanges ("T") and intent-to-add files ("A"), both of which appear as just "M" in the current output. The plumbing output for all cases remains "needs update" for historical compatibility. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-18refresh_index: rename format variablesLibravatar Jeff King1-6/+6
When refreshing the index, for modified (or unmerged) files we will print "needs update" (or "needs merge") for plumbing, or line similar to the output from "diff --name-status" for porcelain. The variables holding which type of message to show are named after the plumbing messages. However, as we begin to differentiate more cases at the porcelain level (with the plumbing message staying the same), that naming scheme will become awkward. Instead, name the variables after which case we found (modified or unmerged), not what we will output. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-18read-cache: let refresh_cache_ent pass up changed flagsLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+6
This will enable refresh_cache to differentiate more cases of modification (such as typechange) when telling the user what isn't fresh. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-26read-cache.c: allocate index entries individuallyLibravatar René Scharfe1-50/+31
The code to estimate the in-memory size of the index based on its on-disk representation is subtly wrong for certain architecture-dependent struct layouts. Instead of fixing it, replace the code to keep the index entries in a single large block of memory and allocate each entry separately instead. This is both simpler and more flexible, as individual entries can now be freed. Actually using that added flexibility is left for a later patch. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-26read-cache.c: fix index memory allocationLibravatar René Scharfe1-3/+3
estimate_cache_size() tries to guess how much memory is needed for the in-memory representation of an index file. It does that by using the file size, the number of entries and the difference of the sizes of the on-disk and in-memory structs -- without having to check the length of the name of each entry, which varies for each entry, but their sums are the same no matter the representation. Except there can be a difference. First of all, the size is really calculated by ce_size and ondisk_ce_size based on offsetof(..., name), not sizeof, which can be different. And entries are padded with 1 to 8 NULs at the end (after the variable name) to make their total length a multiple of eight. So in order to allocate enough memory to hold the index, change the delta calculation to be based on offsetof(..., name) and round up to the next multiple of eight. On a 32-bit Linux, this delta was used before: sizeof(struct cache_entry) == 72 sizeof(struct ondisk_cache_entry) == 64 --- 8 The actual difference for an entry with a filename length of one was, however (find the definitions are in cache.h): offsetof(struct cache_entry, name) == 72 offsetof(struct ondisk_cache_entry, name) == 62 ce_size == (72 + 1 + 8) & ~7 == 80 ondisk_ce_size == (62 + 1 + 8) & ~7 == 64 --- 16 So eight bytes less had been allocated for such entries. The new formula yields the correct delta: (72 - 62 + 7) & ~7 == 16 Reported-by: John Hsing <tsyj2007@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-25Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: whitespace: have SP on both sides of an assignment "=" update-ref: whitespace fix
2011-08-25whitespace: have SP on both sides of an assignment "="Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
I've deliberately excluded the borrowed code in compat/nedmalloc directory. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-29Merge branch 'ef/maint-win-verify-path'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-14/+11
* ef/maint-win-verify-path: verify_dotfile(): do not assume '/' is the path seperator verify_path(): simplify check at the directory boundary verify_path: consider dos drive prefix real_path: do not assume '/' is the path seperator A Windows path starting with a backslash is absolute
2011-06-08verify_dotfile(): do not assume '/' is the path seperatorLibravatar Theo Niessink1-3/+4
verify_dotfile() currently assumes that the path seperator is '/', but on Windows it can also be '\\', so use is_dir_sep() instead. Signed-off-by: Theo Niessink <theo@taletn.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-07verify_path(): simplify check at the directory boundaryLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+3
We simply want to say "At a directory boundary, be careful with a name that begins with a dot, forbid a name that ends with the boundary character or has duplicated bounadry characters". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-27verify_path: consider dos drive prefixLibravatar Erik Faye-Lund1-1/+4
If someone manage to create a repo with a 'C:' entry in the root-tree, files can be written outside of the working-dir. This opens up a can-of-worms of exploits. Fix it by explicitly checking for a dos drive prefix when verifying a paht. While we're at it, make sure that paths beginning with '\' is considered absolute as well. Noticed-by: Theo Niessink <theo@taletn.com> Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-09index_fd(): turn write_object and format_check arguments into one flagLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The "format_check" parameter tucked after the existing parameters is too ugly an afterthought to live in any reasonable API. Combine it with the other boolean parameter "write_object" into a single "flags" parameter. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-03Merge branch 'jc/index-update-if-able' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+25
* jc/index-update-if-able: update $GIT_INDEX_FILE when there are racily clean entries diff/status: refactor opportunistic index update
2011-03-26Merge branch 'jc/index-update-if-able'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+25
* jc/index-update-if-able: update $GIT_INDEX_FILE when there are racily clean entries diff/status: refactor opportunistic index update
2011-03-21update $GIT_INDEX_FILE when there are racily clean entriesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+14
Traditional "opportunistic index update" done by read-only "diff" and "status" was about updating cached lstat(2) information in the index for the next round. We missed another obvious optimization opportunity: when there are racily clean entries that will cease to be racily clean by updating $GIT_INDEX_FILE. Detect that case and write $GIT_INDEX_FILE out to give it a newer timestamp. Noticed by Lasse Makholm by stracing "git status" in a fresh checkout and counting the number of open(2) calls. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-21diff/status: refactor opportunistic index updateLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
When we had to refresh the index internally before running diff or status, we opportunistically updated the $GIT_INDEX_FILE so that later invocation of git can use the lstat(2) we already did in this invocation. Make them share a helper function to do so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-27Merge branch 'nd/hash-object-sanity'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* nd/hash-object-sanity: Make hash-object more robust against malformed objects Conflicts: cache.h
2011-02-27Merge branch 'nd/struct-pathspec'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-23/+2
* nd/struct-pathspec: (22 commits) t6004: add pathspec globbing test for log family t7810: overlapping pathspecs and depth limit grep: drop pathspec_matches() in favor of tree_entry_interesting() grep: use writable strbuf from caller for grep_tree() grep: use match_pathspec_depth() for cache/worktree grepping grep: convert to use struct pathspec Convert ce_path_match() to use match_pathspec_depth() Convert ce_path_match() to use struct pathspec struct rev_info: convert prune_data to struct pathspec pathspec: add match_pathspec_depth() tree_entry_interesting(): optimize wildcard matching when base is matched tree_entry_interesting(): support wildcard matching tree_entry_interesting(): fix depth limit with overlapping pathspecs tree_entry_interesting(): support depth limit tree_entry_interesting(): refactor into separate smaller functions diff-tree: convert base+baselen to writable strbuf glossary: define pathspec Move tree_entry_interesting() to tree-walk.c and export it tree_entry_interesting(): remove dependency on struct diff_options Convert struct diff_options to use struct pathspec ...
2011-02-22update-index --refresh --porcelain: add missing constLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07Make hash-object more robust against malformed objectsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Commits, trees and tags have structure. Don't let users feed git with malformed ones. Sooner or later git will die() when encountering them. Note that this patch does not check semantics. A tree that points to non-existent objects is perfectly OK (and should be so, users may choose to add commit first, then its associated tree for example). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-03Convert ce_path_match() to use match_pathspec_depth()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-23/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-03Convert ce_path_match() to use struct pathspecLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-3/+4
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-03Merge branch 'jj/icase-directory'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+23
* jj/icase-directory: Support case folding in git fast-import when core.ignorecase=true Support case folding for git add when core.ignorecase=true Add case insensitivity support when using git ls-files Add case insensitivity support for directories when using git status Case insensitivity support for .gitignore via core.ignorecase Add string comparison functions that respect the ignore_case variable. Makefile & configure: add a NO_FNMATCH_CASEFOLD flag Makefile & configure: add a NO_FNMATCH flag Conflicts: Makefile config.mak.in configure.ac fast-import.c
2010-10-06Support case folding for git add when core.ignorecase=trueLibravatar Joshua Jensen1-0/+23
When MyDir/ABC/filea.txt is added to Git, the disk directory MyDir/ABC/ is renamed to mydir/aBc/, and then mydir/aBc/fileb.txt is added, the index will contain MyDir/ABC/filea.txt and mydir/aBc/fileb.txt. Although the earlier portions of this patch series account for those differences in case, this patch makes the pathing consistent by folding the case of newly added files against the first file added with that path. In read-cache.c's add_to_index(), the index_name_exists() support used for git status's case insensitive directory lookups is used to find the proper directory case according to what the user already checked in. That is, MyDir/ABC/'s case is used to alter the stored path for fileb.txt to MyDir/ABC/fileb.txt (instead of mydir/aBc/fileb.txt). This is especially important when cloning a repository to a case sensitive file system. MyDir/ABC/ and mydir/aBc/ exist in the same directory on a Windows machine, but on Linux, the files exist in two separate directories. The update to add_to_index(), in effect, treats a Windows file system as case sensitive by making path case consistent. Signed-off-by: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-11core: Stop leaking ondisk_cache_entrysLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+4
Noticed with valgrind. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-02Correct spelling of 'REUC' extensionLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+1
The new dircache extension CACHE_EXT_RESOLVE_UNDO, whose value is 0x52455543, is actually the ASCII sequence 'REUC', not the ASCII sequence 'REUN'. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24Make ce_uptodate() trustworthy againLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
The rule has always been that a cache entry that is ce_uptodate(ce) means that we already have checked the work tree entity and we know there is no change in the work tree compared to the index, and nobody should have to double check. Note that false ce_uptodate(ce) does not mean it is known to be dirty---it only means we don't know if it is clean. There are a few codepaths (refresh-index and preload-index are among them) that mark a cache entry as up-to-date based solely on the return value from ie_match_stat(); this function uses lstat() to see if the work tree entity has been touched, and for a submodule entry, if its HEAD points at the same commit as the commit recorded in the index of the superproject (a submodule that is not even cloned is considered clean). A submodule is no longer considered unmodified merely because its HEAD matches the index of the superproject these days, in order to prevent people from forgetting to commit in the submodule and updating the superproject index with the new submodule commit, before commiting the state in the superproject. However, the patch to do so didn't update the codepath that marks cache entries up-to-date based on the updated definition and instead worked it around by saying "we don't trust the return value of ce_uptodate() for submodules." This makes ce_uptodate() trustworthy again by not marking submodule entries up-to-date. The next step _could_ be to introduce a few "in-core" flag bits to cache_entry structure to record "this entry is _known_ to be dirty", call is_submodule_modified() from ie_match_stat(), and use these new bits to avoid running this rather expensive check more than once, but that can be a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-21Remove diff machinery dependency from read-cacheLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-78/+0
Exal Sibeaz pointed out that some git files are way too big, and that add_files_to_cache() brings in all the diff machinery to any git binary that needs the basic git SHA1 object operations from read-cache.c. Which is pretty much all of them. It's doubly silly, since add_files_to_cache() is only used by builtin programs (add, checkout and commit), so it's fairly easily fixed by just moving the thing to builtin-add.c, and avoiding the dependency entirely. I initially argued to Exal that it would probably be best to try to depend on smart compilers and linkers, but after spending some time trying to make -ffunction-sections work and giving up, I think Exal was right, and the fix is to just do some trivial cleanups like this. This trivial cleanup results in pretty stunning file size differences. The diff machinery really is mostly used by just the builtin programs, and you have things like these trivial before-and-after numbers: -rwxr-xr-x 1 torvalds torvalds 1727420 2010-01-21 10:53 git-hash-object -rwxrwxr-x 1 torvalds torvalds 940265 2010-01-21 11:16 git-hash-object Now, I'm not saying that 940kB is good either, but that's mostly all the debug information - you can see the real code with 'size': text data bss dec hex filename 418675 3920 127408 550003 86473 git-hash-object (before) 230650 2288 111728 344666 5425a git-hash-object (after) ie we have a nice 24% size reduction from this trivial cleanup. It's not just that one file either. I get: [torvalds@nehalem git]$ du -s /home/torvalds/libexec/git-core 45640 /home/torvalds/libexec/git-core (before) 33508 /home/torvalds/libexec/git-core (after) so we're talking 12MB of diskspace here. (Of course, stripping all the binaries brings the 33MB down to 9MB, so the whole debug information thing is still the bulk of it all, but that's a separate issue entirely) Now, I'm sure there are other things we should do, and changing our compiler flags from -O2 to -Os would bring the text size down by an additional almost 20%, but this thing Exal pointed out seems to be some good low-hanging fruit. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>