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2013-06-11Merge branch 'fc/at-head'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" instead. * fc/at-head: sha1_name: compare variable with constant, not constant with variable Add new @ shortcut for HEAD sha1_name: refactor reinterpret() sha1_name: check @{-N} errors sooner sha1_name: reorganize get_sha1_basic() sha1_name: don't waste cycles in the @-parsing loop sha1_name: remove unnecessary braces sha1_name: remove no-op tests: at-combinations: @{N} versus HEAD@{N} tests: at-combinations: increase coverage tests: at-combinations: improve nonsense() tests: at-combinations: check ref names directly tests: at-combinations: simplify setup
2013-05-29Merge branch 'mh/packed-refs-various'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-171/+562
Update reading and updating packed-refs file, correcting corner case bugs. * mh/packed-refs-various: (33 commits) refs: handle the main ref_cache specially refs: change do_for_each_*() functions to take ref_cache arguments pack_one_ref(): do some cheap tests before a more expensive one pack_one_ref(): use write_packed_entry() to do the writing pack_one_ref(): use function peel_entry() refs: inline function do_not_prune() pack_refs(): change to use do_for_each_entry() refs: use same lock_file object for both ref-packing functions pack_one_ref(): rename "path" parameter to "refname" pack-refs: merge code from pack-refs.{c,h} into refs.{c,h} pack-refs: rename handle_one_ref() to pack_one_ref() refs: extract a function write_packed_entry() repack_without_ref(): write peeled refs in the rewritten file t3211: demonstrate loss of peeled refs if a packed ref is deleted refs: change how packed refs are deleted search_ref_dir(): return an index rather than a pointer repack_without_ref(): silence errors for dangling packed refs t3210: test for spurious error messages for dangling packed refs refs: change the internal reference-iteration API refs: extract a function peel_entry() ...
2013-05-08Add new @ shortcut for HEADLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-0/+4
Typing 'HEAD' is tedious, especially when we can use '@' instead. The reason for choosing '@' is that it follows naturally from the ref@op syntax (e.g. HEAD@{u}), except we have no ref, and no operation, and when we don't have those, it makes sens to assume 'HEAD'. So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness. Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so let's make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: handle the main ref_cache speciallyLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-29/+31
Hold the ref_cache instance for the main repository in a dedicated, statically-allocated instance to avoid the need for a function call and a linked-list traversal when it is needed. Suggested by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: change do_for_each_*() functions to take ref_cache argumentsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-15/+14
Change the callers convert submodule names into ref_cache pointers. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01pack_one_ref(): do some cheap tests before a more expensive oneLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-6/+5
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01pack_one_ref(): use write_packed_entry() to do the writingLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-25/+8
Change pack_refs() to work with a file descriptor instead of a FILE* (making the file-locking code less awkward) and use write_packed_entry() to do the writing. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01pack_one_ref(): use function peel_entry()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-16/+23
Change pack_one_ref() to call peel_entry() rather than using its own code for peeling references. Aside from sharing code, this lets it take advantage of the optimization introduced by 6c4a060d7d. Please note that we *could* use any peeled values that happen to already be stored in the ref_entries, which would avoid some object lookups for references that were already packed. But doing so would also propagate any peeling errors across runs of "git pack-refs" and give no way to recover from such errors. And "git pack-refs" isn't run often enough that the performance cost is a problem. So instead, add a new option to peel_entry() to force the entry to be re-peeled, and call it with that option set. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: inline function do_not_prune()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-9/+2
Function do_not_prune() was redundantly checking REF_ISSYMREF, which was already tested at the top of pack_one_ref(), so remove that check. And the rest was trivial, so inline the function. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01pack_refs(): change to use do_for_each_entry()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-14/+15
pack_refs() was not using any of the extra features of for_each_ref(), so change it to use do_for_each_entry(). This also gives it access to the ref_entry and in particular its peeled field, which will be taken advantage of in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: use same lock_file object for both ref-packing functionsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-6/+4
Use a single struct lock_file for both pack_refs() and repack_without_ref(). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01pack_one_ref(): rename "path" parameter to "refname"Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-7/+7
Make this function conform to the naming convention established in 65385ef7d4 for the rest of the refs.c file. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01pack-refs: merge code from pack-refs.{c,h} into refs.{c,h}Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+144
pack-refs.c doesn't contain much code, and the code it does contain is closely related to reference handling. Moreover, there is some duplication between pack_refs() and repack_without_ref(). Therefore, merge pack-refs.c into refs.c and pack-refs.h into refs.h. The code duplication will be addressed in future commits. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: extract a function write_packed_entry()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-16/+30
Extract the I/O code from the "business logic" in repack_ref_fn(). Later there will be another caller for this function. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01repack_without_ref(): write peeled refs in the rewritten fileLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+23
When a reference that existed in the packed-refs file is deleted, the packed-refs file must be rewritten. Previously, the file was rewritten without any peeled refs, even if the file contained peeled refs when it was read. This was not a bug, because the packed-refs file header didn't claim that the file contained peeled values. But it had a performance cost, because the repository would lose the benefit of having precomputed peeled references until pack-refs was run again. Teach repack_without_ref() to write peeled refs to the packed-refs file (regardless of whether they were present in the old version of the file). This means that if the old version of the packed-refs file was not fully peeled, then repack_without_ref() will have to peel references. To avoid the expense of reading lots of loose references, we take two shortcuts relative to pack-refs: * If the peeled value of a reference is already known (i.e., because it was read from the old version of the packed-refs file), then output that peeled value again without any checks. This is the usual code path and should avoid any noticeable overhead. (This is different than pack-refs, which always re-peels references.) * We don't verify that the packed ref is still current. It could be that a packed references is overridden by a loose reference, in which case the packed ref is no longer needed and might even refer to an object that has been garbage collected. But we don't check; instead, we just try to peel all references. If peeling is successful, the peeled value is written out (even though it might not be needed any more); if not, then the reference is silently omitted from the output. The extra overhead of peeling references in repack_without_ref() should only be incurred the first time the packed-refs file is written by a version of Git that knows about the "fully-peeled" attribute. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: change how packed refs are deletedLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-16/+68
Add a function remove_ref(), which removes a single entry from a reference cache. Use this function to reimplement repack_without_ref(). The old version iterated over all refs, packing all of them except for the one to be deleted, then discarded the entire packed reference cache. The new version deletes the doomed reference from the cache *before* iterating. This has two advantages: * the code for writing packed-refs becomes simpler, because it doesn't have to exclude one of the references. * it is no longer necessary to discard the packed refs cache after deleting a reference: symbolic refs cannot be packed, so packed references cannot depend on each other, so the rest of the packed refs cache remains valid after a reference is deleted. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01search_ref_dir(): return an index rather than a pointerLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-12/+18
Change search_ref_dir() to return the index of the sought entry (or -1 on error) rather than a pointer to the entry. This will make it more natural to use the function for removing an entry from the list. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01repack_without_ref(): silence errors for dangling packed refsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-2/+35
Stop emitting an error message when deleting a packed reference if we find another dangling packed reference that is overridden by a loose reference. See the previous commit for a longer explanation of the issue. We have to be careful to make sure that the invalid packed reference really *is* overridden by a loose reference; otherwise what we have found is repository corruption, which we *should* report. Please note that this approach is vulnerable to a race condition similar to the race conditions already known to affect packed references [1]: * Process 1 tries to peel packed reference X as part of deleting another packed reference. It discovers that X does not refer to a valid object (because the object that it referred to has been garbage collected). * Process 2 tries to delete reference X. It starts by deleting the loose reference X. * Process 1 checks whether there is a loose reference X. There is not (it has just been deleted by process 2), so process 1 reports a spurious error "X does not point to a valid object!" The worst case seems relatively harmless, and the fix is identical to the fix that will be needed for the other race conditions (namely holding a lock on the packed-refs file during *all* reference deletions), so we leave the cleaning up of all of them as a future project. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/211956 Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: change the internal reference-iteration APILibravatar Michael Haggerty1-61/+83
Establish an internal API for iterating over references, which gives the callback functions direct access to the ref_entry structure describing the reference. (Do not change the iteration API that is exposed outside of the module.) Define a new internal callback signature int each_ref_entry_fn(struct ref_entry *entry, void *cb_data) Change do_for_each_ref_in_dir() and do_for_each_ref_in_dirs() to accept each_ref_entry_fn callbacks, and rename them to do_for_each_entry_in_dir() and do_for_each_entry_in_dirs(), respectively. Adapt their callers accordingly. Add a new function do_for_each_entry() analogous to do_for_each_ref() but using the new callback style. Change do_one_ref() into an each_ref_entry_fn that does some bookkeeping and then calls a wrapped each_ref_fn. Reimplement do_for_each_ref() in terms of do_for_each_entry(), using do_one_ref() as an adapter. Please note that the responsibility for setting current_ref remains in do_one_ref(), which means that current_ref is *not* set when iterating over references via the new internal API. This is not a disadvantage, because current_ref is not needed by callers of the internal API (they receive a pointer to the current ref_entry anyway). But more importantly, this change prevents peel_ref() from returning invalid results in the following scenario: When iterating via the external API, the iteration always includes both packed and loose references, and in particular never presents a packed ref if there is a loose ref with the same name. The internal API, on the other hand, gives the option to iterate over only the packed references. During such an iteration, there is no check whether the packed ref might be hidden by a loose ref of the same name. But until now the packed ref was recorded in current_ref during the iteration. So if peel_ref() were called with the reference name corresponding to current ref, it would return the peeled version of the packed ref even though there might be a loose ref that peels to a different value. This scenario doesn't currently occur in the code, but fix it to prevent things from breaking in a very confusing way in the future. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: extract a function peel_entry()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-14/+49
Peel the entry, and as a side effect store the peeled value in the entry. Use this function from two places in peel_ref(); a third caller will be added soon. Please note that this change can lead to ref_entries for unpacked refs being peeled. This has no practical benefit but is harmless. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01peel_ref(): fix return value for non-peelable, not-current referenceLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+4
The old version was inconsistent: when a reference was REF_KNOWS_PEELED but with a null peeled value, it returned non-zero for the current reference but zero for other references. Change the behavior for non-current references to match that of current_ref, which is what callers expect. Document the behavior. Current callers only call peel_ref() from within a for_each_ref-style iteration and only for the current ref; therefore, the buggy code path was never reached. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01peel_object(): give more specific information in return valueLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-8/+24
Instead of just returning a success/failure bit, return an enumeration value that explains the reason for any failure. This will come in handy shortly. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: extract function peel_object()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-20/+30
It is a nice, logical unit of work, and putting it in a function removes the need to use a goto in peel_ref(). Soon it will also have other uses. The algorithm is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: extract a function ref_resolves_to_object()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-8/+20
It is a nice unit of work and soon will be needed from multiple locations. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01repack_without_ref(): use function get_packed_ref()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-3/+5
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01peel_ref(): use function get_packed_ref()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-3/+2
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01get_packed_ref(): return a ref_entryLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-11/+9
Instead of copying the reference's SHA1 into a caller-supplied variable, just return the ref_entry itself (or NULL if there is no such entry). This change will allow the function to be used from elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01do_for_each_ref_in_dirs(): remove dead codeLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-7/+0
There is no way to drop out of the while loop. This code has been dead since 432ad41e. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: define constant PEELED_LINE_LENGTHLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-2/+5
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: document how current_ref is usedLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+9
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: document do_for_each_ref() and do_one_ref()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+14
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: document the fields of struct ref_valueLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+12
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-01refs: document flags constants REF_*Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+11
Document the bits that can appear in the "flags" parameter passed to an each_ref_function and/or in the ref_entry::flag field. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-03Merge branch 'jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref' into maint-1.8.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+44
* jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref: pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object") avoid segfaults on parse_object failure
2013-03-26Merge branch 'jc/reflog-reverse-walk'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-46/+115
An internal function used to implement "git checkout @{-1}" was hard to use correctly. * jc/reflog-reverse-walk: refs.c: fix fread error handling reflog: add for_each_reflog_ent_reverse() API for_each_recent_reflog_ent(): simplify opening of a reflog file for_each_reflog_ent(): extract a helper to process a single entry
2013-03-25Merge branch 'jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+44
Not that we do not actively encourage having annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy, but they were not advertised correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git. * jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref: pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object") avoid segfaults on parse_object failure
2013-03-23refs.c: fix fread error handlingLibravatar John Keeping1-1/+1
fread returns the number of items read, with no special error return. Commit 98f85ff (reflog: add for_each_reflog_ent_reverse() API - 2013-03-08) introduced a call to fread which checks for an error with "nread < 0" which is tautological since nread is unsigned. The correct check in this case (which tries to read a single item) is "nread != 1". Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-18pack-refs: add fully-peeled traitLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-5/+44
Older versions of pack-refs did not write peel lines for refs outside of refs/tags. This meant that on reading the pack-refs file, we might set the REF_KNOWS_PEELED flag for such a ref, even though we do not know anything about its peeled value. The previous commit updated the writer to always peel, no matter what the ref is. That means that packed-refs files written by newer versions of git are fine to be read by both old and new versions of git. However, we still have the problem of reading packed-refs files written by older versions of git, or by other implementations which have not yet learned the same trick. The simplest fix would be to always unset the REF_KNOWS_PEELED flag for refs outside of refs/tags that do not have a peel line (if it has a peel line, we know it is valid, but we cannot assume a missing peel line means anything). But that loses an important optimization, as upload-pack should not need to load the object pointed to by refs/heads/foo to determine that it is not a tag. Instead, we add a "fully-peeled" trait to the packed-refs file. If it is set, we know that we can trust a missing peel line to mean that a ref cannot be peeled. Otherwise, we fall back to assuming nothing. [commit message and tests by Jeff King <peff@peff.net>] Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-08reflog: add for_each_reflog_ent_reverse() APILibravatar Junio C Hamano1-16/+86
"git checkout -" is a short-hand for "git checkout @{-1}" and the "@{nth}" notation for a negative number is to find nth previous checkout in the reflog of the HEAD to determine the name of the branch the user was on. We would want to find the nth most recent reflog entry that matches "checkout: moving from X to Y" for this. Unfortunately, reflog is implemented as an append-only file, and the API to iterate over its entries, for_each_reflog_ent(), reads the file in order, giving the entries from the oldest to newer. For the purpose of finding nth most recent one, this API forces us to record the last n entries in a rotating buffer and give the result out only after we read everything. To optimize for a common case of finding the nth most recent one for a small value of n, we also have a side API for_each_recent_reflog_ent() that starts reading near the end of the file, but it still has to read the entries in the "wrong" order. The implementation of understanding @{-1} uses this interface. This all becomes unnecessary if we add an API to let us iterate over reflog entries in the reverse order, from the newest to older. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-08for_each_recent_reflog_ent(): simplify opening of a reflog fileLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+1
There is no reason to use a temporary variable logfile. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-08for_each_reflog_ent(): extract a helper to process a single entryLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-29/+30
Split the logic that takes a single line of reflog entry in a strbuf, parses the message, and calls the callback function out of the loop into a separate helper function. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-17Merge branch 'jc/hidden-refs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+44
Allow the server side to redact the refs/ namespace it shows to the client. Will merge to 'master'. * jc/hidden-refs: upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchies upload-pack: simplify request validation upload-pack: share more code
2013-02-07upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchiesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+44
A repository may have refs that are only used for its internal bookkeeping purposes that should not be exposed to the others that come over the network. Teach upload-pack to omit some refs from its initial advertisement by paying attention to the uploadpack.hiderefs multi-valued configuration variable. Do the same to receive-pack via the receive.hiderefs variable. As a convenient short-hand, allow using transfer.hiderefs to set the value to both of these variables. Any ref that is under the hierarchies listed on the value of these variable is excluded from responses to requests made by "ls-remote", "fetch", etc. (for upload-pack) and "push" (for receive-pack). Because these hidden refs do not count as OUR_REF, an attempt to fetch objects at the tip of them will be rejected, and because these refs do not get advertised, "git push :" will not see local branches that have the same name as them as "matching" ones to be sent. An attempt to update/delete these hidden refs with an explicit refspec, e.g. "git push origin :refs/hidden/22", is rejected. This is not a new restriction. To the pusher, it would appear that there is no such ref, so its push request will conclude with "Now that I sent you all the data, it is time for you to update the refs. I saw that the ref did not exist when I started pushing, and I want the result to point at this commit". The receiving end will apply the compare-and-swap rule to this request and rejects the push with "Well, your update request conflicts with somebody else; I see there is such a ref.", which is the right thing to do. Otherwise a push to a hidden ref will always be "the last one wins", which is not a good default. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-23Merge branch 'rs/clarify-entry-cmp-sslice'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+4
* rs/clarify-entry-cmp-sslice: refs: use strncmp() instead of strlen() and memcmp()
2013-01-16refs: use strncmp() instead of strlen() and memcmp()Libravatar René Scharfe1-6/+4
Simplify ref_entry_cmp_sslice() by using strncmp() to compare the length-limited key and a NUL-terminated entry. While we're at it, retain the const attribute of the input pointers. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-10Merge branch 'jk/repack-ref-racefix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
* jk/repack-ref-racefix: refs: do not use cached refs in repack_without_ref
2013-01-02Merge branch 'jk/repack-ref-racefix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
"git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that created new refs had a nasty race. * jk/repack-ref-racefix: refs: do not use cached refs in repack_without_ref
2012-12-21refs: do not use cached refs in repack_without_refLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+4
When we delete a ref that is packed, we rewrite the whole packed-refs file and simply omit the ref that no longer exists. However, we base the rewrite on whatever happens to be in our refs cache, not what is necessarily on disk. That opens us up to a race condition if another process is simultaneously packing the refs, as we will overwrite their newly-made pack-refs file with our potentially stale data, losing commits. You can demonstrate the race like this: # setup some repositories git init --bare parent && (cd parent && git config core.logallrefupdates true) && git clone parent child && (cd child && git commit --allow-empty -m base) # in one terminal, repack the refs repeatedly cd parent && while true; do git pack-refs --all done # in another terminal, simultaneously push updates to # master, and create and delete an unrelated ref cd child && while true; do git push origin HEAD:newbranch && git commit --allow-empty -m foo us=`git rev-parse master` && git push origin master && git push origin :newbranch && them=`git --git-dir=../parent rev-parse master` && if test "$them" != "$us"; then echo >&2 "$them" != "$us" exit 1 fi done In many cases the two processes will conflict over locking the packed-refs file, and the deletion of newbranch will simply fail. But eventually you will hit the race, which happens like this: 1. We push a new commit to master. It is already packed (from the looping pack-refs call). We write the new value (let us call it B) to $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master, but the old value (call it A) remains in the packed-refs file. 2. We push the deletion of newbranch, spawning a receive-pack process. Receive-pack advertises all refs to the client, causing it to iterate over each ref; it caches the packed refs in memory, which points at the stale value A. 3. Meanwhile, a separate pack-refs process is running. It runs to completion, updating the packed-refs file to point master at B, and deleting $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master which also pointed at B. 4. Back in the receive-pack process, we get the instruction to delete :newbranch. We take a lock on packed-refs (which works, as the other pack-refs process has already finished). We then rewrite the contents using the cached refs, which contain the stale value A. The resulting packed-refs file points master once again at A. The loose ref which would override it to point at B was deleted (rightfully) in step 3. As a result, master now points at A. The only trace that B ever existed in the parent is in the reflog: the final entry will show master moving from A to B, even though the ref still points at A (so you can detect this race after the fact, because the next reflog entry will move from A to C). We can fix this by invalidating the packed-refs cache after we have taken the lock. This means that we will re-read the packed-refs file, and since we have the lock, we will be sure that what we read will be atomically up-to-date when we write (it may be out of date with respect to loose refs, but that is OK, as loose refs take precedence). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-25Merge branch 'jh/update-ref-d-through-symref'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic ref that points to it did not remove it correctly. * jh/update-ref-d-through-symref: Fix failure to delete a packed ref through a symref t1400-update-ref: Add test verifying bug with symrefs in delete_ref()
2012-11-09Merge branch 'rs/lock-correct-ref-during-delete'Libravatar Jeff King1-13/+5
When "update-ref -d --no-deref SYM" tried to delete a symbolic ref SYM, it incorrectly locked the underlying reference pointed by SYM, not the symbolic ref itself. * rs/lock-correct-ref-during-delete: refs: lock symref that is to be deleted, not its target