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2009-10-24Work around option parsing bug in the busybox tar implementationLibravatar Andreas Schwab1-1/+1
The first argument of the tar command is interpreted as a bundle of letters specifying the mode of operation and additional options, with any option arguments taken from subsequent words on the command line as needed. The implementation of tar in busybox treats this bundle as if preceded by a dash and then parses it by getopt rules, which mishandles 'tar xfo -'. Use 'tar xof -' instead to work this around. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-29Correct minor typo in post-receive hook templateLibravatar Frederik Schwarzer1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2009-09-22pre-commit.sample: add comment re tr portability; fix grammarLibravatar Jim Meyering1-4/+7
Add a comment explaining why square brackets around a tr range are not only ok, but actually required in this case. Correct spelling and grammar. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-23Merge branch 'hv/sample-update'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
* hv/sample-update: Extend sample update hook, disable modifying of existing tags
2009-05-20Extend sample pre-commit hook to check for non ascii filenamesLibravatar Heiko Voigt1-0/+25
At the moment non-ascii encodings of filenames are not portably converted between different filesystems by git. This will most likely change in the future but to allow repositories to be portable among different file/operating systems this check is enabled by default. Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-16pre-commit.sample: don't print incidental SHA1Libravatar Jim Meyering1-1/+1
Make the sample pre-commit hook script discard all git-rev-parse output, not just stderr. Otherwise, it would print an SHA1. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-09Extend sample update hook, disable modifying of existing tagsLibravatar Heiko Voigt1-0/+10
Because no special rule for this existed it was allowed by default Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <heiko.voigt@mahr.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-17hook/update: example of how to prevent branch creationLibravatar Pierre Habouzit1-1/+10
Since git doesn't provide a receive.denyBranchCreation or similar, here is an example of how to be sure users cannot create branches remotely by pushing a new reference. This setup has been proven useful to prevent creation of spurious branches because of users having their remote.origin.push set to HEAD, when they use `git push` while being on a local topic branch of theirs instead of the proper one. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-04Modify description file to say what this file isLibravatar John Tapsell2-3/+5
A lot of people see this message for the first time on the gitweb interface, where there is no clue as to what 'this file' means. Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-09Fix permission bits on sources checked out with an overtight umaskLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+7
Two patches 9907721 (templates/Makefile: don't depend on local umask setting, 2008-02-28) and 96cda0b (templates/Makefile: install is unnecessary, just use mkdir -p, 2008-08-21) tried to prevent an overtight umask the builder/installer might have from screwing over the installation procedure, but we forgot there was another source of trouble. If the person who checked out the source tree had an overtight umask, it will leak out to the built products, which is propagated to the installation destination. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-20Install templates with the user and group of the installing personalityLibravatar Johannes Sixt1-1/+1
If 'make install' was run with sufficient privileges, then the installed templates, which are copied using 'tar', would receive the user and group of whoever built git. This instructs 'tar' to ignore the user and group that are recorded in the archive. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-02Merge branch 'j6t/mingw'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
* j6t/mingw: (38 commits) compat/pread.c: Add a forward declaration to fix a warning Windows: Fix ntohl() related warnings about printf formatting Windows: TMP and TEMP environment variables specify a temporary directory. Windows: Make 'git help -a' work. Windows: Work around an oddity when a pipe with no reader is written to. Windows: Make the pager work. When installing, be prepared that template_dir may be relative. Windows: Use a relative default template_dir and ETC_GITCONFIG Windows: Compute the fallback for exec_path from the program invocation. Turn builtin_exec_path into a function. Windows: Use a customized struct stat that also has the st_blocks member. Windows: Add a custom implementation for utime(). Windows: Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32 API. Windows: Implement a custom spawnve(). Windows: Implement wrappers for gethostbyname(), socket(), and connect(). Windows: Work around incompatible sort and find. Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads. Windows: Disambiguate DOS style paths from SSH URLs. Windows: A rudimentary poll() emulation. Windows: Implement start_command(). ...
2008-06-26Update sample pre-commit hook to use "diff --check"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-58/+6
Now "diff --check" can detect not just whitespace errors but also notices leftover conflict marker lines, we can use it in the sample pre-commit hook script. These days the object layer knows about the empty tree object without actually having one in the repository, so we can run the test even for the initial commit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-26When installing, be prepared that template_dir may be relative.Libravatar Johannes Sixt1-4/+4
Since the Makefile in the template/ subdirectory is only used to install the templates, we do not simply pass down the setting of template_dir when it is relative, but construct the intended destination in a new variable: A relative template_dir is relative to gitexecdir. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
2008-06-25Fix use of "perl -i" on WindowsLibravatar Alex Riesen1-2/+2
The perldiag(1) has following to say about this: "Can't do inplace edit without backup" (F) You're on a system such as MS-DOS that gets confused if you try reading from a deleted (but still opened) file. You have to say -i.bak, or some such. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-24Ship sample hooks with .sample suffixLibravatar Junio C Hamano11-24/+23
We used to mark hooks we ship as samples by making them unexecutable, but some filesystems cannot tell what is executable and what is not. This makes it much more explicit. The hooks are suffixed with .sample (but now are made executable), so enabling it is still one step operation (instead of "chmod +x $hook", you would do "mv $hook.sample $hook") but now they won't get accidentally enabled on systems without executable bit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-24pre-rebase hook updateLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+23
This hook is what I have been using to manage topic branches in git.git, but have not been updated to the Real Thing for a while. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-21Fix prepare-commit-msg hook and replace in-place sedLibravatar Marcel Koeppen1-4/+4
The patterns to the case statement could never be matched, so the hook was a noop. This patch also replaces the non-portable use of in-place sed. Signed-off-by: Marcel Koeppen <git-dev@marzelpan.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-29Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
* maint: templates/Makefile: don't depend on local umask setting Correct name of diff_flush() in API documentation Start preparing for 1.5.4.4 Conflicts: RelNotes
2008-02-28templates/Makefile: don't depend on local umask settingLibravatar Gerrit Pape1-3/+3
Don't take the local umask setting into account when installing the templates/* files and directories, running 'make install' with umask set to 077 resulted in template/* installed with permissions 700 and 600. The problem was discovered by Florian Zumbiehl, reported through http://bugs.debian.org/467518 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-06git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hookLibravatar Paolo Bonzini2-0/+39
The prepare-commit-msg hook is run whenever a "fresh" commit message is prepared, just before it is shown in the editor (if it is). Its purpose is to modify the commit message in-place. It takes one to three parameters. The first is the name of the file that the commit log message. The second is the source of the commit message, and can be: "message" (if a -m or -F option was given); "template" (if a -t option was given or the configuration option commit.template is set); "merge" (if the commit is a merge or a .git/MERGE_MSG file exists); "squash" (if a .git/SQUASH_MSG file exists); or "commit", followed by a commit SHA1 as the third parameter (if a -c, -C or --amend option was given). If its exit status is non-zero, git-commit will abort. The hook is not suppressed by the --no-verify option, so it should not be used as a replacement for the pre-commit hook. The sample prepare-commit-msg comments out the `Conflicts:` part of a merge's commit message; other examples are commented out, including adding a Signed-off-by line at the bottom of the commit messsage, that the user can then edit or discard altogether. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-17Officially deprecate repo-config.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-14Make default pre-commit hook less noisyLibravatar Jean-Luc Herren1-1/+1
This hook thought to have found a conflict marker any time it saw a 7-character combination of any of the characters '<>=' at the beginning of a line, whereas it should only look for the *same* character to appear repeatedly. Also, restrict it to match exactly 7 times, to avoid matching the underlining with '='-characters often used in documentation. Signed-off-by: Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03install-sh from automake does not like -m without delimiting spaceLibravatar Robert Schiele1-1/+1
The install-sh script as shipped with automake requires a space between the -m switch and its argument. Since this is also the regular way of doing it with other install implementations this change inserts the missing space in all makefiles. Signed-off-by: Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-22Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: Fix sample pre-commit hook
2007-11-22Fix sample pre-commit hookLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
If the worktree happened to have a file called HEAD, "diff-index --cached HEAD" would complain about the ambiguity between revision and path. Avoid it by using an explicit "--" for disambiguation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-08hooks--update: decline deleting tags or branches by default, add config optionsLibravatar Gerrit Pape1-2/+31
Decline deleting tags or branches through git push <remote> :<ref> by default, support config options hooks.allowdeletetag, hooks.allowdeletebranch to override this per repository. Before this patch the update hook interpreted deleting a tag, no matter if annotated or not, through git push <remote> :<tag> as unannotated tag, and declined it by default, but with an unappropriate error message: $ git push origin :atag deleting 'refs/tags/atag' *** The un-annotated tag, atag, is not allowed in this repository *** Use 'git tag [ -a | -s ]' for tags you want to propagate. ng refs/tags/atag hook declined error: hooks/update exited with error code 1 error: hook declined to update refs/tags/atag error: failed to push to 'monolith:/git/qm/test-repo' Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-08hooks--update: fix test for properly set up project description fileLibravatar Gerrit Pape1-2/+2
The update hook template intends to abort if the project description file hasn't been adjusted or is empty. This patch fixes the check for 'being adjusted'. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-26hooks-pre-commit: use \t, rather than a literal TAB in regexpLibravatar Jim Meyering1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-13hooks--update: Explicitly check for all zeros for a deleted ref.Libravatar Alexandre Julliard1-1/+1
The previous check caused the hook to reject as unannotated any tag whose SHA1 starts with a zero. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-14Use $(RM) in Makefiles instead of 'rm -f'Libravatar Emil Medve1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-12Remove trailing slash from $(template_dir).Libravatar Johannes Sixt1-1/+1
All the other directory location variables do not have the trailing slash. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07War on whitespaceLibravatar Junio C Hamano4-4/+0
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-04-16Have sample update hook not refuse deleting a branch through push.Libravatar Gerrit Pape1-1/+6
source ref might be 0000...0000 to delete a branch through git-push, 'git <remote> push :<branch>'. The update hook should not decline this. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-16variable $projectdesc needs to be set before checking against unchanged default.Libravatar Gerrit Pape1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-31Reimplement emailing part of hooks--update in contrib/hooks/post-receive-emailLibravatar Andy Parkins1-0/+17
The update hook is no longer the correct place to generate emails; there is now the hooks/post-receive script which is run automatically after a ref has been updated. This patch is to make use of that new location, and to address some faults in the old update hook. The primary problem in the conversion was that in the update hook, the ref has not actually been changed, but is about to be. In the post-receive hook the ref has already been updated. That meant that where we previously had lines like: git rev-list --not --all would now give the wrong list because "--all" in the post-receive hook includes the ref that we are making the email for. This made it more difficult to show only the new revisions added by this update. The solution is not pretty; however it does work and doesn't need any changes to git-rev-list itself. It also fixes (more accurately: reduces the likelihood of) a nasty race when another update occurs while this script is running. The solution, in short, looks like this (see the source code for a longer explanation) git rev-parse --not --all | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname) | git rev-list --pretty --stdin $oldrev..$newrev This uses git-rev-parse followed by grep to filter out the revision of the ref in question before it gets to rev-list and inhibits the output of itself. By using $(git rev-parse $revname) rather than $newrev as the filter, it also takes care of the situation where another update to the same ref has been made since $refname was $newrev. The second problem that is addressed is that of tags inhibiting the correct output of an update email. Consider this, with somebranch and sometag pointing at the same revision: git push origin somebranch git push origin sometag That would work fine; the push of the branch would generate an email containing all the new commits introduced by the update, then the push of the tag would generate the shortlog formatted tag email. Now consider: git push origin sometag git push origin somebranch When some branch comes to run its "--not --all" line, it will find sometag, and filter those commits from the email - leaving nothing. That meant that those commits would not show (in full) on any email. The fix is to not use "--all", and instead use "--branches" in the git-rev-parse command. Other changes * Lose the monstrous one-giant-script layout and put things in easy to digest functions. This makes it much easier to find the place you need to change if you wanted to customise the output. I've also tried to write more verbose comments for the same reason. The hook script is big, mainly because of all the different cases that it has to handle, so being easy to navigate is important. * All uses of "git-command" changed to "git command", to cope better if a user decided not to install all the hard links to git; * Cleaned up some of the English in the email * The fact that the receive hook makes the ref available also allows me to use Shawn Pearce's fantastic suggestion that an annotated tag can be parsed with git-for-each-ref. This removes the potentially non-portable use of "<<<" heredocs and the nasty messing around with "date" to convert numbers of seconds UTC to a real date * Deletions are now caught and notified (briefly) * To help with debugging, I've retained the command line mode from the update hook; but made it so that the output is not emailed, it's just printed to the screen. This could then be redirected if the user wanted * Removed the "Hello" from the beginning of the email - it's just noise, and no one seriously has their day made happier by "friendly" programs * The fact that it doesn't rely on repository state as an indicator any more means that it's far more stable in its output; hopefully the same arguments will always generate the same email - even if the repository changes in the future. This means you can easily recreate an email should you want to. * Included Jim Meyering's envelope sender option for the sendmail call * The hook is now so big that it was inappropriate to copy it to every repository by keeping it in the templates directory. Instead, I've put a comment saying to look in contrib/hooks, and given an example of calling the script from that template hook. The advantage of calling the script residing at some fixed location is that if a future package of git included a bug fixed version of the script, that would be picked up automatically, and the user would not have to notice and manually copy the new hook to every repository that uses it. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-24update-hook: remove e-mail sending hook.Libravatar Andy Parkins1-222/+3
The update hook's only job is to decide is a particular update is allowed or not. It was not the right place to send out update notification e-mails from to begin with, as the final stage of updating refs can fail after this hook runs. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-22update-hook: abort early if the project description is unsetLibravatar Andy Parkins1-0/+6
It was annoying to always have the first email from a project be from the "Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb project"; just because it's so easy to forget to set it. This patch checks to see if the description file is still default (or empty) and aborts if so - allowing you to fix the problem before sending out silly looking emails to every developer. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-14update-hook: fix incorrect use of git-describe and sed for finding previous tagLibravatar Andy Parkins1-1/+1
Previously git-describe would output lines of the form v1.1.1-gf509d56 The update hook found the dash and stripped it off using sed 's/-g.*//' The remainder was then used as the previous tag name. However, git-describe has changed format. The output is now of the form v1.1.1-23-gf509d56 The above sed fragment doesn't strip the middle "-23", and so the previous tag name used would be "v1.1.1-23". This is incorrect. Since the hook script was written, git-describe now gained support for "--abbrev=0", which it uses as a special flag to tell it not to output anything other than the nearest tag name. This patch fixes the problem, and prevents any future recurrence by using this new flag rather than sed to find the previous tag. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-06Make 'make' quiet by defaultLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+1
Per Junio's suggestion we are setting 'make' to be quiet by default, with `make V=1` available to force GNU make back to its default behavior of showing each command it is running. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-06Make 'make' quieter while building gitLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-3/+7
I find it difficult to see compiler warnings amongst the massive spewing produced by GNU make as it works through our productions. This is especially true if CFLAGS winds up being rather long, due to a large number of -W options being enabled and due to a number of -D options being configured/required by my platform. By defining QUIET_MAKE (e.g. make QUIET_MAKE=YesPlease) during compilation users will get a less verbose output, such as: ... CC builtin-grep.c builtin-grep.c:187: warning: 'external_grep' defined but not used CC builtin-init-db.c CC builtin-log.c CC builtin-ls-files.c CC builtin-ls-tree.c ... The verbose (normal make) output is still the default. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-02Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: Fix quoting in update hook template
2007-03-02Fix quoting in update hook templateLibravatar Gerrit Pape1-1/+1
By default allowunannotated is unset in the repo config, hence $allowunannotated is empty, and must be quoted to not break the syntax. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-02Sample update hook: typofix and modernization to use "git log"Libravatar Andy Parkins1-5/+4
Instead of using antiquated "git-rev-parse | git-rev-list" pipeline, it is easier to use "git-rev-list" or "git-log" these days, as Linus points out. While we are at it, fix the typo on variable name $newref that should be $newrev. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-14The "table-of-contents" in the update hook script should match the bodyLibravatar Andy Parkins1-2/+2
44478d99ee0 introduced a filter using "git-rev-parse --not --all" to the log display to prevent the display of revisions already in the repository. However, the table of contents generation didn't get that same update. This patch fixes that. The table of contents before the log and the log now both display the same list of revisions. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-13Only show log entries for new revisions in hooks--updateLibravatar Andy Parkins1-1/+2
If you were issuing emails for two branches, and one merged the other, you would get the same log messages appearing in two separate emails. e.g. A working repository, where the last push to central was done at the revision marked "B", after which two branches were developed further. * -- B -- 1 -- 1 -- M (branch1) \ / 2 -- 2 -- 2 (branch2) Now imagine that branch2 is pushed to the email-generating repository; an email containing all the "2" revisions would be sent. Now, let's say branch1 is pushed, the old update hook would run git-rev-list $newrev ^$baserev Where $newrev would be "M" and $baserev would be "B". This list includes all the "2" revisions as well as all the "1" revisions. This patch addresses this problem by using git-rev-parse --not --all | git-rev-list --stdin $newrev ^$baserev To inhibit the display of all revisions that are already in the repository. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-13Fix potential command line overflow in hooks--updateLibravatar Andy Parkins1-1/+1
In a repository with a large number of refs, the following command line could easily overflow the command line size limitations git-rev-list $newref $(git-rev-parse --not --all) Fortunately, git-rev-list already has the means to cope with this situation with the --stdin switch git-rev-parse --not --all | git-rev-list --stdin $newref Which is exactly what this patch does. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03Assorted typo fixesLibravatar Pavel Roskin2-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28Heavily expanded update hook to send more useful emails than the old hookLibravatar Andy Parkins1-72/+268
I know it's only an example, but having this might save someone else the trouble of writing an enhanced version for themselves. It basically does the same job as the old update hook, but with these differences: * The recipients list is read from the repository config file from hooks.mailinglist * Updating unannotated tags can be allowed by setting hooks.allowunannotated * Announcement emails (via annotated tag creation) can be sent to a different mailing list by setting hooks.announcelist * Output email is more verbose and generates specific content depending on whether the ref is a tag, an annotated tag, a branch, or a tracking branch * The email is easier to filter; the subject line is prefixed with [SCM] and a project description pulled from the "description" file * It catches (and displays differently) branch updates that are performed with a --force Obviously, it's nothing that clever - it's the update hook I use on my repositories but I've tried to keep it general, and tried to make the output always relevant to the type of update. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28UNIX reference time of 1970-01-01 00:00 is UTC timezone, not local time zoneLibravatar Andy Parkins1-1/+1
I got bitten because in the UK (where one would expect 1970-01-01 00:00 to be UTC 0) some politicians decided to mess around with daylight savings time from 1968 to 1971; it was permanently BST (+0100). That means that on my computer the following is true: $ date --date="1970-01-01 00:00" +"%F %T %z (%Z)" 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0100 (BST) This of course means that the --date argument to date is specified in local time, not UTC. So when the hooks--update script does this: date=$(date --date="1970-01-01 00:00:00 $ts seconds") It's actually saying (in my timezone) "1970-01-01 01:00:00 UTC" + $ts. Clearly this is wrong. The UNIX epoch started at midnight UTC not 1am UTC. This leads to the tagged time in hooks--update being shown as one hour earlier than the true tagged time (in my timezone). The problem would be worse for other timezones. For a +1300 timezone on 1970-01-01, the tagged time would be 13 hours earlier. Oops. The solution is to force the reference time to UTC, which is what this patch does. In my timezone: $ date --date="1970-01-01 00:00 +0000" +"%F %T %z (%Z)" 1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100 (BST) Much better. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>