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2007-03-02Add core.symlinks to mark filesystems that do not support symbolic links.Libravatar Johannes Sixt1-4/+6
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>
2007-02-28index_fd(): pass optional path parameter as hint for blob conversionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-28index_fd(): use enum object_type instead of type name string.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-27convert object type handling from a string to a numberLibravatar Nicolas Pitre1-2/+2
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>
2007-02-16Do not take mode bits from index after type change.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+7
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>
2007-01-11write-cache: do not leak the serialized cache-tree data.Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
It is not used after getting written, and just is leaking every time we write the index out. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-08short i/o: fix calls to write to use xwrite or write_in_fullLibravatar Andy Whitcroft1-3/+3
We have a number of badly checked write() calls. Often we are expecting write() to write exactly the size we requested or fail, this fails to handle interrupts or short writes. Switch to using the new write_in_full(). Otherwise we at a minimum need to check for EINTR and EAGAIN, where this is appropriate use xwrite(). Note, the changes to config handling are much larger and handled in the next patch in the sequence. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-29Cleanup read_cache_from error handling.Libravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-4/+4
When I converted the mmap() call to xmmap() I failed to cleanup the way this routine handles errors and left some crufty code behind. This is a small cleanup, suggested by Johannes. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-29Replace mmap with xmmap, better handling MAP_FAILED.Libravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+1
In some cases we did not even bother to check the return value of mmap() and just assume it worked. This is bad, because if we are out of virtual address space the kernel returned MAP_FAILED and we would attempt to dereference that address, segfaulting without any real error output to the user. We are replacing all calls to mmap() with xmmap() and moving all MAP_FAILED checking into that single location. If a mmap call fails we try to release enough least-recently-used pack windows to possibly succeed, then retry the mmap() attempt. If we cannot mmap even after releasing pack memory then we die() as none of our callers have any reasonable recovery strategy for a failed mmap. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-17Fix check_file_directory_conflict().Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
When replacing an existing file A with a directory A that has a file A/B in it in the index, 'update-index --replace --add A/B' did not properly remove the file to make room for the new directory. There was a trivial logic error, most likely a cut & paste one, dating back to quite early days of git. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-17git-add: remove conflicting entry when adding.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
When replacing an existing file A with a directory A that has a file A/B in it in the index, 'git add' did not succeed because it forgot to pass the allow-replace flag to add_cache_entry(). It might be safer to leave this as an error and require the user to explicitly remove the existing A first before adding A/B since it is an unusual case, but doing that automatically is much easier to use. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-17update-index: make D/F conflict error a bit more verbose.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
When you remove a directory D that has a tracked file D/F out of the way to create a file D and try to "git update-index --add D", it used to say "cannot add" which was not very helpful. This issues an extra error message to explain the situation before the final "fatal" message. Since D/F conflicts are relatively rare event, extra verbosity would not make things too noisy. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-22trust-executable-bit: fix breakage for symlinksLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
An earlier commit f28b34a broke symlinks when trust-executable-bit is not set because it incorrectly assumed that everything was a regular file. Reported by Juergen Ruehle. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-18sparse fix: non-ANSI function declarationLibravatar Rene Scharfe1-1/+1
The declaration of discard_cache() in cache.h already has its "void". Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-26Ignore executable bit when adding files if filemode=0.Libravatar Shawn Pearce1-1/+3
If the user has configured core.filemode=0 then we shouldn't set the execute bit in the index when adding a new file as the user has indicated that the local filesystem can't be trusted. This means that when adding files that should be marked executable in a repository with core.filemode=0 the user must perform a 'git update-index --chmod=+x' on the file before committing the addition. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-27Merge branch 'js/c-merge-recursive'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+17
* js/c-merge-recursive: (21 commits) discard_cache(): discard index, even if no file was mmap()ed merge-recur: do not die unnecessarily merge-recur: try to merge older merge bases first merge-recur: if there is no common ancestor, fake empty one merge-recur: do not setenv("GIT_INDEX_FILE") merge-recur: do not call git-write-tree merge-recursive: fix rename handling .gitignore: git-merge-recur is a built file. merge-recur: virtual commits shall never be parsed merge-recur: use the unpack_trees() interface instead of exec()ing read-tree merge-recur: fix thinko in unique_path() Makefile: git-merge-recur depends on xdiff libraries. merge-recur: Explain why sha_eq() and struct stage_data cannot go merge-recur: Cleanup last mixedCase variables... merge-recur: Fix compiler warning with -pedantic merge-recur: Remove dead code merge-recur: Get rid of debug code merge-recur: Convert variable names to lower_case Cumulative update of merge-recursive in C recur vs recursive: help testing without touching too many stuff. ... This is an evil merge that removes TEST script from the toplevel.
2006-08-17Do not use memcmp(sha1_1, sha1_2, 20) with hardcoded length.Libravatar David Rientjes1-2/+2
Introduces global inline: hashcmp(const unsigned char *sha1, const unsigned char *sha2) Uses memcmp for comparison and returns the result based on the length of the hash name (a future runtime decision). Acked-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-16Merge branch 'jc/racy'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-59/+10
* jc/racy: Remove the "delay writing to avoid runtime penalty of racy-git avoidance" Add check program "git-check-racy" Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt avoid nanosleep(2)
2006-08-15Remove the "delay writing to avoid runtime penalty of racy-git avoidance"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-52/+1
The work-around should not be needed. Even if it turns out we would want it later, git will remember the patch for us ;-). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15Add check program "git-check-racy"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+9
This will help counting the racily clean paths, but it should be useless for daily use. Do not even enable it in the makefile. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15remove unnecessary initializationsLibravatar David Rientjes1-6/+6
[jc: I needed to hand merge the changes to the updated codebase, so the result needs to be checked.] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15avoid nanosleep(2)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+1
On Solaris nanosleep(2) is not available in libc; you need to link with -lrt to get it. The purpose of the loop is to wait until the next filesystem timestamp granularity, and the code uses subsecond sleep in the hope that it can shorten the delay to 0.5 seconds on average instead of a full second. It is probably not worth depending on an extra library for this. We might want to yank out the whole "racy-git avoidance is costly later at runtime, so let's delay writing the index out" codepath later, but that is a separate issue and needs some testing on large trees to figure it out. After playing with the kernel tree, I have a feeling that the whole thing may not be worth it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-14read-cache.c cleanupLibravatar David Rientjes1-7/+3
Removes conditional returns. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-12Merge branch 'master' into js/c-merge-recursiveLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Adjust to hold_lock_file_for_update() change on the master.
2006-08-10discard_cache(): discard index, even if no file was mmap()edLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-3/+3
Since add_cacheinfo() can be called without a mapped index file, discard_cache() _has_ to discard the entries, even when cache_mmap == NULL. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-08read-cache: tweak racy-git delay logicLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-21/+52
Instead of looping over the entries and writing out, use a separate loop after all entries have been written out to check how many entries are racily clean. Make sure that the newly created index file gets the right timestamp when we check by flushing the buffered data by ce_write(). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-07Racy git: avoid having to be always too carefulLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+40
Immediately after a bulk checkout, most of the paths in the working tree would have the same timestamp as the index file, and this would force ce_match_stat() to take slow path for all of them. When writing an index file out, if many of the paths have very new (read: the same timestamp as the index file being written out) timestamp, we are better off delaying the return from the command, to make sure that later command to touch the working tree files will leave newer timestamps than recorded in the index, thereby avoiding to take the slow path. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-31Fix double "close()" in ce_compare_dataLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
Doing an "strace" on "git diff" shows that we close() a file descriptor twice (getting EBADFD on the second one) when we end up in ce_compare_data if the index does not match the checked-out stat information. The "index_fd()" function will already have closed the fd for us, so we should not close it again. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-30Merge branch 'js/read-tree' into js/c-merge-recursiveLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+39
* js/read-tree: (107 commits) read-tree: move merge functions to the library read-trees: refactor the unpack_trees() part tar-tree: illustrate an obscure feature better git.c: allow alias expansion without a git directory setup_git_directory_gently: do not barf when GIT_DIR is given. Build on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Call setup_git_directory() much earlier Call setup_git_directory() early Display an error from update-ref if target ref name is invalid. Fix http-fetch t4103: fix binary patch application test. git-apply -R: binary patches are irreversible for now. Teach git-apply about '-R' Makefile: ssh-pull.o depends on ssh-fetch.c log and diff family: honor config even from subdirectories git-reset: detect update-ref error and report it. lost-found: use fsck-objects --full Teach git-http-fetch the --stdin switch Teach git-local-fetch the --stdin switch Make pull() support fetching multiple targets at once ...
2006-07-26Make git-mv a builtinLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+39
This also moves add_file_to_index() to read-cache.c. Oh, and while touching builtin-add.c, it also removes a duplicate git_config() call. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-26Extract helper bits from c-merge-recursive workLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-45/+42
This backports the pieces that are not uncooked from the merge-recursive WIP we have seen earlier, to be used in git-mv rewritten in C. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-13Status update on merge-recursive in CLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-45/+59
This is just an update for people being interested. Alex and me were busy with that project for a few days now. While it has progressed nicely, there are quite a couple TODOs in merge-recursive.c, just search for "TODO". For impatient people: yes, it passes all the tests, and yes, according to the evil test Alex did, it is faster than the Python script. But no, it is not yet finished. Biggest points are: - there are still three external calls - in the end, it should not be necessary to write the index more than once (just before exiting) - a lot of things can be refactored to make the code easier and shorter BTW we cannot just plug in git-merge-tree yet, because git-merge-tree does not handle renames at all. This patch is meant for testing, and as such, - it compile the program to git-merge-recur - it adjusts the scripts and tests to use git-merge-recur instead of git-merge-recursive - it provides "TEST", a script to execute the tests regarding -recursive - it inlines the changes to read-cache.c (read_cache_from(), discard_cache() and refresh_cache_entry()) Brought to you by Alex Riesen and Dscho Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-10Avoid C99 comments, use old-style C comments instead.Libravatar Pavel Roskin1-1/+1
This doesn't make the code uglier or harder to read, yet it makes the code more portable. This also simplifies checking for other potential incompatibilities. "gcc -std=c89 -pedantic" can flag many incompatible constructs as warnings, but C99 comments will cause it to emit an error. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-20Remove all void-pointer arithmetic.Libravatar Florian Forster1-6/+7
ANSI C99 doesn't allow void-pointer arithmetic. This patch fixes this in various ways. Usually the strategy that required the least changes was used. Signed-off-by: Florian Forster <octo@verplant.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-28Merge branch 'jc/dirwalk-n-cache-tree' into jc/cache-treeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+184
* jc/dirwalk-n-cache-tree: (212 commits) builtin-rm: squelch compiler warnings. Add builtin "git rm" command Move pathspec matching from builtin-add.c into dir.c Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index. builtin-add: fix unmatched pathspec warnings. Remove old "git-add.sh" remnants builtin-add: warn on unmatched pathspecs Do "git add" as a builtin Clean up git-ls-file directory walking library interface libify git-ls-files directory traversal Add a conversion tool to migrate remote information into the config fetch, pull: ask config for remote information Fix build procedure for builtin-init-db read-tree -m -u: do not overwrite or remove untracked working tree files. apply --cached: do not check newly added file in the working tree Implement a --dry-run option to git-quiltimport Implement git-quiltimport Revert "builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep." builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep. builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep. ...
2006-05-28git-write-tree writes garbage on sparc64Libravatar Dennis Stosberg1-1/+1
In the "next" branch, write_index_ext_header() writes garbage on a 64-bit big-endian machine; the written index file will be unreadable. I noticed this on NetBSD/sparc64. Reproducible with: $ git init-db $ :>file $ git-update-index --add file $ git-write-tree $ git-update-index error: index uses extension, which we do not understand fatal: index file corrupt Signed-off-by: Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-20Merge branch 'lt/dirwalk' into jc/dirwalk-n-cache-treeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+66
This commit is what this branch is all about. It records the evil merge needed to adjust built-in git-add and git-rm for the cache-tree extension. * lt/dirwalk: Add builtin "git rm" command Move pathspec matching from builtin-add.c into dir.c Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index. builtin-add: fix unmatched pathspec warnings. Remove old "git-add.sh" remnants builtin-add: warn on unmatched pathspecs Do "git add" as a builtin Clean up git-ls-file directory walking library interface libify git-ls-files directory traversal Conflicts: Makefile builtin.h git.c update-index.c
2006-05-20Merge branch 'jc/cache-tree' into jc/dirwalk-n-cache-treeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+72
* jc/cache-tree: (24 commits) Fix crash when reading the empty tree fsck-objects: do not segfault on missing tree in cache-tree cache-tree: a bit more debugging support. read-tree: invalidate cache-tree entry when a new index entry is added. Fix test-dump-cache-tree in one-tree disappeared case. fsck-objects: mark objects reachable from cache-tree cache-tree: replace a sscanf() by two strtol() calls cache-tree.c: typefix test-dump-cache-tree: validate the cached data as well. cache_tree_update: give an option to update cache-tree only. read-tree: teach 1-way merege and plain read to prime cache-tree. read-tree: teach 1 and 2 way merges about cache-tree. update-index: when --unresolve, smudge the relevant cache-tree entries. test-dump-cache-tree: report number of subtrees. cache-tree: sort the subtree entries. Teach fsck-objects about cache-tree. index: make the index file format extensible. cache-tree: protect against "git prune". Add test-dump-cache-tree Use cache-tree in update-index. ...
2006-05-19Libify the index refresh logicLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+117
This cleans up and libifies the "git update-index --[really-]refresh" functionality. This will be eventually required for eventually doing the "commit" and "status" commands as built-ins. It really just moves "refresh_index()" from update-index.c to read-cache.c, but it also has to change the calling convention so that the function uses a "unsigned int flags" argument instead of various static flags variables for passing down the information about whether to be quiet or not, and allow unmerged entries etc. That actually cleans up update-index.c too, since it turns out that all those flags were really specific to that one function of the index update, so they shouldn't have had file-scope visibility even before. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-18Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index.Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+66
With this one, it's now a fatal error to try to add a pathname that cannot be added with "git add", i.e. [torvalds@g5 git]$ git add .git/config fatal: unable to add .git/config to index and [torvalds@g5 git]$ git add foo/../bar fatal: unable to add foo/../bar to index instead of the old "Ignoring path xyz" warning that would end up silently succeeding on any other paths. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-09read-cache.c: use xcalloc() not calloc()Libravatar Yakov Lerner1-1/+1
Elsewhere we use xcalloc(); we should consistently do so. Signed-off-by: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-24index: make the index file format extensible.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-26/+79
... and move the cache-tree data into it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-23read-cache/write-cache: optionally return cache checksum SHA1.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+27
read_cache_1() and write_cache_1() takes an extra parameter *sha1 that returns the checksum of the index file when non-NULL. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-12cache_name_compare() compares name and stage, nothing else.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
The code was a bit unclear in expressing what it wants to compare. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-08"Assume unchanged" gitLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+23
This adds "assume unchanged" logic, started by this message in the list discussion recently: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601311807470.7301@g5.osdl.org> This is a workaround for filesystems that do not have lstat() that is quick enough for the index mechanism to take advantage of. On the paths marked as "assumed to be unchanged", the user needs to explicitly use update-index to register the object name to be in the next commit. You can use two new options to update-index to set and reset the CE_VALID bit: git-update-index --assume-unchanged path... git-update-index --no-assume-unchanged path... These forms manipulate only the CE_VALID bit; it does not change the object name recorded in the index file. Nor they add a new entry to the index. When the configuration variable "core.ignorestat = true" is set, the index entries are marked with CE_VALID bit automatically after: - update-index to explicitly register the current object name to the index file. - when update-index --refresh finds the path to be up-to-date. - when tools like read-tree -u and apply --index update the working tree file and register the current object name to the index file. The flag is dropped upon read-tree that does not check out the index entry. This happens regardless of the core.ignorestat settings. Index entries marked with CE_VALID bit are assumed to be unchanged most of the time. However, there are cases that CE_VALID bit is ignored for the sake of safety and usability: - while "git-read-tree -m" or git-apply need to make sure that the paths involved in the merge do not have local modifications. This sacrifices performance for safety. - when git-checkout-index -f -q -u -a tries to see if it needs to checkout the paths. Otherwise you can never check anything out ;-). - when git-update-index --really-refresh (a new flag) tries to see if the index entry is up to date. You can start with everything marked as CE_VALID and run this once to drop CE_VALID bit for paths that are modified. Most notably, "update-index --refresh" honours CE_VALID and does not actively stat, so after you modified a file in the working tree, update-index --refresh would not notice until you tell the index about it with "git-update-index path" or "git-update-index --no-assume-unchanged path". This version is not expected to be perfect. I think diff between index and/or tree and working files may need some adjustment, and there probably needs other cases we should automatically unmark paths that are marked to be CE_VALID. But the basics seem to work, and ready to be tested by people who asked for this feature. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-20ce_smudge_racily_clean_entry: explain why it works.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+25
This is a tricky code and warrants extra commenting. I wasted 30 minutes trying to break it until I realized why it works. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-20Racy GIT (part #2)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+31
The previous round caught the most trivial case well, but broke down once index file is updated again. Smudge problematic entries (they should be very few if any under normal interactive workflow) before writing a new index file out. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-20Racy GITLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-54/+86
This fixes the longstanding "Racy GIT" problem, which was pretty much there from the beginning of time, but was first demonstrated by Pasky in this message on October 24, 2005: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=113014629716878 If you run the following sequence of commands: echo frotz >infocom git update-index --add infocom echo xyzzy >infocom so that the second update to file "infocom" does not change st_mtime, what is recorded as the stat information for the cache entry "infocom" exactly matches what is on the filesystem (owner, group, inum, mtime, ctime, mode, length). After this sequence, we incorrectly think "infocom" file still has string "frotz" in it, and get really confused. E.g. git-diff-files would say there is no change, git-update-index --refresh would not even look at the filesystem to correct the situation. Some ways of working around this issue were already suggested by Linus in the same thread on the same day, including waiting until the next second before returning from update-index if a cache entry written out has the current timestamp, but that means we can make at most one commit per second, and given that the e-mail patch workflow used by Linus needs to process at least 5 commits per second, it is not an acceptable solution. Linus notes that git-apply is primarily used to update the index while processing e-mailed patches, which is true, and git-apply's up-to-date check is fooled by the same problem but luckily in the other direction, so it is not really a big issue, but still it is disturbing. The function ce_match_stat() is called to bypass the comparison against filesystem data when the stat data recorded in the cache entry matches what stat() returns from the filesystem. This patch tackles the problem by changing it to actually go to the filesystem data for cache entries that have the same mtime as the index file itself. This works as long as the index file and working tree files are on the filesystems that share the same monotonic clock. Files on network mounted filesystems sometimes get skewed timestamps compared to "date" output, but as long as working tree files' timestamps are skewed the same way as the index file's, this approach still works. The only problematic files are the ones that have the same timestamp as the index file's, because two file updates that sandwitch the index file update must happen within the same second to trigger the problem. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-11Use git config file for committer name and email infoLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-1/+0
This starts using the "user.name" and "user.email" config variables if they exist as the default name and email when committing. This means that you don't have to use the GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment variable to override your email - you can just edit the config file instead. The patch looks bigger than it is because it makes the default name and email information non-static and renames it appropriately. And it moves the common git environment variables into a new library file, so that you can link against libgit.a and get the git environment without having to link in zlib and libcrypt. In short, most of it is renaming and moving, the real change core is just a few new lines in "git_default_config()" that copies the user config values to the new base. It also changes "git-var -l" to list the config variables. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-11Use core.filemode.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+8
With "[core] filemode = false", you can tell git to ignore differences in the working tree file only in executable bit. * "git-update-index --refresh" does not say "needs update" if index entry and working tree file differs only in executable bit. * "git-update-index" on an existing path takes executable bit from the existing index entry, if the path and index entry are both regular files. * "git-diff-files" and "git-diff-index" without --cached flag pretend the path on the filesystem has the same executable bit as the existing index entry, if the path and index entry are both regular files. If you are on a filesystem with unreliable mode bits, you may need to force the executable bit after registering the path in the index. * "git-update-index --chmod=+x foo" flips the executable bit of the index file entry for path "foo" on. Use "--chmod=-x" to flip it off. Note that --chmod only works in index file and does not look at nor update the working tree. So if you are on a filesystem and do not have working executable bit, you would do: 1. set the appropriate .git/config option; 2. "git-update-index --add new-file.c" 3. "git-ls-files --stage new-file.c" to see if it has the desired mode bits. If not, e.g. to drop executable bit picked up from the filesystem, say "git-update-index --chmod=-x new-file.c". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>