We provide a free_refs() function to free a list, but there's no easy
way for a caller to free a single ref. Let's make our singular
free_ref() function public. Since its name is so similar to the
list-freeing free_refs(), and because both of those functions have the
same signature, it might be easy to accidentally use the wrong one.
Let's call the singular version the more verbose "free_one_ref()" to
distinguish it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no need for us to write this loop manually when a helper
function can already do it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 2d103c31c2 (pack-protocol.txt: accept error packets in any
context, 2018-12-29), the pktline code will detect an ERR packet and die
automatically, saving the caller from dealing with it. But we do so too
early in the function, before we have terminated the buffer with a NUL.
As a result, passing the ERR message to die() may result in us printing
random cruft from a previous packet. This doesn't trigger memory tools
like ASan because we reuse the same buffer over and over (so the
contents are valid and initialized; they're just stale).
We can see demonstrate this by tightening the regex we use to match the
error message in t5516; without this patch, git-fetch will accidentally
print the capabilities from the (much longer) initial packet we
received.
By moving the ERR code later in the function we get a few other
benefits, too:
- we'll now chomp any newline sent by the other side (which is what we
want, since die() will add its own newline)
- we'll now mention the ERR packet with GIT_TRACE_PACKET
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit bdb31eada7 (upload-pack: report "not our ref" to client,
2017-02-23) catches the case where a client asks for an object we don't
have, and issues a message that the client can show to the user (in
addition to dying and writing to stderr).
There's a similar case (with the same message) when the client asks for
an object which we _do_ have, but which isn't a ref tip (or isn't
reachable, when uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant is true). Let's give
that one the same treatment, for the same reason (namely that it's more
informative to the client than just hanging up, since they won't see our
stderr over some protocols).
There are two tests here. We cover it most directly in t5530 by invoking
upload-pack, which matches the existing "not our ref" test.
But a more end-to-end check is that "git fetch" actually shows the
message to the client. We're already checking in t5516 that this case
fails, so we can just check stderr there, too. Note that even after we
started ignoring SIGPIPE in 8bf4becf0c, this could in theory still be
racy as described in that commit (because we die() on write failures
before pumping the connection for any ERR packets).
In practice this should be OK for this case. The server will not
actually check reachability until it has received our whole group of
"want" lines. And since we have no objects in the repository, we won't
send any "have" lines, meaning we're always waiting to read the server
response.
Note also that this case cannot happen in the v2 protocol, since it
allows any available object to be requested. However, we don't have to
take any steps to protect against the upcoming GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION
in our tests:
- the tests in t5516 would already need to be skipped under v2, and
that is covered by ab0c5f5096 (tests: always test fetch of
unreachable with v0, 2019-02-25)
- the tests in t5530 invoke upload-pack directly, which will continue
to default to v0. Eventually we may have a test setting which uses
v2 even for bare upload-pack calls, but we can't override it here
until we know what the setting looks like.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back in 9f9aa76130 (upload-pack: Improve error message when bad ref
requested, 2010-07-31), we added a test to make sure that we die with a
sensible message when the client asks for an object we don't have.
Much later, in bdb31eada7 (upload-pack: report "not our ref" to client,
2017-02-23), we started reporting that information via an "ERR" line in
the protocol. Let's check that part, as well.
While we're touching this test, let's drop the "-q" on the grep calls.
Our usual test style just relies on --verbose to control output.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We annotated our test_must_fail calls in 8bf4becf0c (add "ok=sigpipe" to
test_must_fail and use it to fix flaky tests, 2015-11-27) because the
abrupt hangup of the server meant that we'd sometimes fail on read() and
sometimes get SIGPIPE on write().
But since 143588949c (fetch: ignore SIGPIPE during network operation,
2019-03-03), we make sure that we end up with a real die(), and our
tests no longer need to work around the race.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
6cdccfce ("i18n: make GETTEXT_POISON a runtime option", 2018-11-08)
made the gettext-poison test a runtime option (which was a good
move) and adjusted the test framework so that Git commands we run as
part of the framework, as opposed to the ones that are part of the
test proper, are not affected by the setting. The original value
for the GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON environment variable is saved away
in another variable and gets unset, and then later the saved value
is restored to the environment variable.
But the code forgot to export the variable again, which is necessary
to restore the "export" bit that was lost when the variable was unset.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of the recently added progress indicators have quite long titles,
which might be even longer when translated to some languages, and when
they are shown while operating on bigger repositories, then the
progress bar grows longer than the default 80 column terminal width.
When the progress bar exceeds the width of the terminal it gets
line-wrapped, and after that the CR at the end doesn't return to the
beginning of the progress bar, but to the first column of its last
line. Consequently, the first line of the previously shown progress
bar is not overwritten by the next, and we end up with a bunch of
truncated progress bar lines scrolling past:
$ LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 git commit-graph write
Encontrando commits para commit graph entre los objetos empaquetados: 2% (1599
Encontrando commits para commit graph entre los objetos empaquetados: 3% (1975
Encontrando commits para commit graph entre los objetos empaquetados: 4% (2633
Encontrando commits para commit graph entre los objetos empaquetados: 5% (3292
[...]
Prevent this by breaking progress bars after the title once they
exceed the width of the terminal, so the counter and optional
percentage and throughput, i.e. all changing parts, are on the last
line. Subsequent updates will from then on only refresh the changing
parts, but not the title, and it will look like this:
$ LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 ~/src/git/git commit-graph write
Encontrando commits para commit graph entre los objetos empaquetados:
100% (6584502/6584502), listo.
Calculando números de generación de commit graph: 100% (824705/824705), listo.
Escribiendo commit graph en 4 pasos: 100% (3298820/3298820), listo.
Note that the number of columns in the terminal is cached by
term_columns(), so this might not kick in when it should when a
terminal window is resized while the operation is running.
Furthermore, this change won't help if the terminal is so narrow that
the counters don't fit on one line, but I would put this in the "If it
hurts, don't do it" box.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the progress bar includes throughput, its length can shorten as
the unit of display changes from KiB to MiB. To cover up remnants of
the previous progress bar when such a change of units happens we
always print three spaces at the end of the progress bar.
Alas, covering only three characters is not quite enough: when both
the total and the throughput happen to change units from KiB to MiB in
the same update, then the progress bar's length is shortened by four
characters (or maybe even more!):
Receiving objects: 25% (2901/11603), 772.01 KiB | 733.00 KiB/s
Receiving objects: 27% (3133/11603), 1.43 MiB | 1.16 MiB/s s
and a stray 's' is left behind.
So instead of hard-coding the three characters to cover, let's compare
the length of the current progress bar with the previous one, and
cover up as many characters as needed.
Sure, it would be much simpler to just print more spaces at the end of
the progress bar, but this approach is more future-proof, and it won't
print extra spaces when none are needed, notably when the progress bar
doesn't show throughput and thus never shrinks.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to reasons (some XCode versions seem to include gettext, some
don't?), Homebrew does not expose the libraries and headers in
/usr/local/ by default anymore.
Let's help find them again.
Note: for some reason, this is a change of behavior caused by the
upgrade to Mojave, identified in our Azure Pipeline; it seems that
Homebrew used to add the /usr/local/ directories to the include and link
search path before, but now it no longer does.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most notably, it seems that macOS' APFS does not allow that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Robin reported that
git submodule foreach --quiet git pull --quiet origin
is not really quiet anymore [1]. "git pull" behaves as if --quiet is not
given.
This happens because parseopt in submodule--helper will try to parse
both --quiet options as if they are foreach's options, not git-pull's.
The parsed options are removed from the command line. So when we do
pull later, we execute just this
git pull origin
When calling submodule helper, adding "--" in front of "git pull" will
stop parseopt for parsing options that do not really belong to
submodule--helper foreach.
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN is removed as a safety measure. parseopt should
never see unknown options or something has gone wrong. There are also
a couple usage string update while I'm looking at them.
While at it, I also add "--" to other subcommands that pass "$@" to
submodule--helper. "$@" in these cases are paths and less likely to be
--something-like-this. But the point still stands, git-submodule has
parsed and classified what are options, what are paths. submodule--helper
should never consider paths passed by git-submodule to be options even
if they look like one.
The test case is also contributed by Robin.
[1] it should be quiet before fc1b9243cd (submodule: port submodule
subcommand 'foreach' from shell to C, 2018-05-10) because parseopt
can't accidentally eat options then.
Reported-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Tested-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git's command-line parsers support uniquely abbreviated options, e.g.
`git init --ba` would automatically expand `--ba` to `--bare`.
This is a very convenient feature in every day life for Git users, in
particular when tab completion is not available.
However, it is not a good idea to rely on that in Git's test suite, as
something that is a unique abbreviation of a command line option today
might no longer be a unique abbreviation tomorrow.
For example, if a future contribution added a new mode
`git init --babyproofing` and a previously-introduced test case used the
fact that `git init --ba` expanded to `git init --bare`, that future
contribution would now have to touch seemingly unrelated tests just to
keep the test suite from failing.
So let's disallow abbreviated options in the test suite by default.
Note: for ease of implementation, this patch really only touches the
`parse-options` machinery: more and more hand-rolled option parsers are
converted to use that internal API, and more and more scripts are
converted to built-ins (naturally using the parse-options API, too), so
in practice this catches most issues, and is definitely the biggest bang
for the buck.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 7a36987fff ("send-email: add an auto option for transfer encoding",
2018-07-08), git send-email learned how to automatically determine the
transfer encoding for a patch. However, the only criterion considered
was the length of the lines.
Another case we need to consider is that of carriage returns. Because
emails have CRLF endings when canonicalized, we don't want to write raw
carriage returns into a patch, lest they be stripped off as an artifact
of the transport. Ensure that we choose quoted-printable encoding if the
patch we're sending contains carriage returns.
Note that we are guaranteed to always correctly encode carriage returns
when writing quoted-printable since we explicitly specify the line
ending as "\n", forcing MIME::QuotedPrint to encode our carriage return
as "=0D".
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the early days of Git, the progress code allocates its struct with
a bare malloc(), not xmalloc(). If the allocation fails, we just avoid
showing progress at all.
While perhaps a noble goal not to fail the whole operation because of
optional progress, in practice:
1. Any failure to allocate a few dozen bytes here means critical path
allocations are likely to fail, too.
2. These days we use a strbuf for throughput progress (and there's a
patch under discussion to do the same for non-throughput cases,
too). And that uses xmalloc() under the hood, which means we'd
still die on some allocation failures.
Let's switch to xmalloc(). That makes us consistent with the rest of Git
and makes it easier to audit for other (less careful) bare mallocs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of xdiff uses a bare malloc() to allocate memory, and returns an
error when we get NULL. However, there are a few spots which don't check
the return value and may segfault, including at least xdl_merge() and
xpatience.c's find_longest_common_sequence().
Let's use xmalloc() everywhere instead, so that we get a graceful die()
for these cases, without having to do further auditing. This does mean
the existing cases which check errors will now die() instead of
returning an error up the stack. But:
- that's how the rest of Git behaves already for malloc errors
- all of the callers of xdi_diff(), etc, die upon seeing an error
So while we might one day want to fully lib-ify the diff code and make
it possible to use as part of a long-running process, we're not close to
that now. And because we're just tweaking the xdl_malloc() macro here,
we're not really moving ourselves any further away from that. We
could, for example, simplify some of the functions which handle malloc()
errors which can no longer occur. But that would probably be taking us
in the wrong direction.
This also makes our malloc handling more consistent with the rest of
Git, including enforcing GIT_ALLOC_LIMIT and trying to reclaim pack
memory when needed.
Reported-by: 王健强 <jianqiang.wang@securitygossip.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the xdiff library was not originally part of Git, it does its own
system includes. Let's instead use git-compat-util, which has two
benefits:
1. It adjusts for any system-specific quirks in how or what we should
include (though xdiff's needs are light enough that this hasn't
been a problem in the past).
2. It lets us use wrapper functions like xmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test-prio-queue.c doesn't check the return value of malloc, and could
segfault.
It's unlikely for this to matter in practice; it's a small allocation,
and this code isn't even installed alongside the rest of Git. But let's
use xmalloc(), which makes auditing for other accidental uses of bare
malloc() easier.
Reported-by: 王健强 <jianqiang.wang@securitygossip.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the mention of symlinks from the test description because
several tests that are not related to symlinks have been added since
this file was introduced long ago.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In f9e6c64958 (untracked cache: load from UNTR index extension,
2015-03-08), code was added to read back the untracked cache from an
index extension.
Probably in the endeavor to avoid the `calloc()` implied by
`FLEX_ALLOC_STR()` (it is hard to know why exactly, the commit message
of that commit is a bit parsimonious with information), it calls
`malloc()` manually and then `memcpy()`s the bits and pieces into place.
It allocates the size of `struct untracked_cache_dir` plus the string
length of the untracked file name, then copies the information in two
steps: first the fixed-size metadata, then the name. And here lies the
rub: it includes the trailing NUL byte in the name.
If `FLEX_ARRAY` is defined as 0, this results in a buffer overrun.
To fix this, let's just add 1, for the trailing NUL byte. Technically,
this overallocates on platforms where `FLEX_ARRAY` is 1, but it should
not matter much in reality, as `malloc()` usually overallocates anyway,
unless the size to allocate aligns exactly with some internal chunk size
(see below for more on that).
The real strange thing is that neither valgrind nor DrMemory catches
this bug. In this developer's tests, a `memcpy()` (but not a
`memset()`!) could write up to 4 bytes after the allocated memory range
before valgrind would start reporting an issue.
However, when running Git built with nedmalloc as allocator, under rare
conditions (and inconsistently at that), this bug triggered an `abort()`
because nedmalloc rounds up the size to be `malloc()`ed to a multiple of
a certain chunk size, then adds a few bytes to be used for storing some
internal state. If there is no rounding up to do (because the size is
already a multiple of that chunk size), and if the buffer is overrun as
in the code patched in this commit, the internal state is corrupted.
The scenario that triggered this here bug fix entailed a git.git
checkout with an extra copy of the source code in an untracked
subdirectory, meaning that there was an untracked subdirectory called
"thunderbird-patch-inline" whose name's length is exactly 24 bytes,
which, added to the size of above-mentioned `struct untracked_cache_dir`
that weighs in with 104 bytes on a 64-bit system, amounts to 128,
aligning perfectly with nedmalloc's chunk size.
As there is no obvious way to trigger this bug reliably, on all
platforms supported by Git, and as the bug is obvious enough, this patch
comes without a regression test.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches git-submodule the set-branch subcommand which allows the
branch of a submodule to be set through a porcelain command without
having to manually manipulate the .gitmodules file.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The {apostrophe} was needed at the time of a521845800 ("Documentation:
remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion", 2010-08-20). All
other uses of {apostrophe} were removed in 6cf378f0cb ("docs: stop using
asciidoc no-inline-literal", 2012-04-26).
Unfortunately, the {apostrophe} is rendered literally with Asciidoctor
(at least with 1.5.5-2.0.3). Avoid this by using single-quotes.
Escaping the leading single-quote allows the content to render properly
in AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase --rebase-merges" replaces its old "--preserve-merges"
option; the latter is now marked as deprecated.
* js/rebase-deprecate-preserve-merges:
rebase: deprecate --preserve-merges
"git worktree add" used to do a "find an available name with stat
and then mkdir", which is race-prone. This has been fixed by using
mkdir and reacting to EEXIST in a loop.
* ms/worktree-add-atomic-mkdir:
worktree: fix worktree add race
"git log -L<from>,<to>:<path>" with "-s" did not suppress the patch
output as it should. This has been corrected.
* jk/line-log-with-patch:
line-log: detect unsupported formats
line-log: suppress diff output with "-s"
A GSoC micro.
* ra/t3600-test-path-funcs:
t3600: use helpers to replace test -d/f/e/s <path>
t3600: modernize style
test functions: add function `test_file_not_empty`
"git rebase" uses the refs/rewritten/ hierarchy to store its
intermediate states, which inherently makes the hierarchy per
worktree, but it didn't quite work well.
* nd/rewritten-ref-is-per-worktree:
Make sure refs/rewritten/ is per-worktree
files-backend.c: reduce duplication in add_per_worktree_entries_to_dir()
files-backend.c: factor out per-worktree code in loose_fill_ref_dir()
When the "clean" filter can reduce the size of a huge file in the
working tree down to a small "token" (a la Git LFS), there is no
point in allocating a huge scratch area upfront, but the buffer is
sized based on the original file size. The convert mechanism now
allocates very minimum and reallocates as it receives the output
from the clean filter process.
* jh/resize-convert-scratch-buffer:
convert: avoid malloc of original file size
In 6956f858f6 (notes: implement helpers needed for note copying during
rewrite, 2010-03-12), we introduced a test case that verifies that the
config setting `notes.rewriteRef` can be overridden via the environment
variable `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`.
Back when it was introduced, it relied on a side effect of an earlier
test case that configured `core.noteRef` to point to `refs/notes/other`.
In 908a320363 (t3301: modernize style, 2014-11-12), this side effect was
removed.
The test case *still* passed, but for the wrong reason: we no longer
overrode the rewrite ref, but there simply was nothing to rewrite
anymore, as the overridden notes ref was "modernized" away.
Let's let that test case pass for the correct reason again.
To make sure of that, let's change the idea of the original test case:
it configured `notes.rewriteRef` to point to the actual notes ref,
forced that to be ignored and then verified that the notes were *not*
rewritten.
By turning that idea upside down (configure the `notes.rewriteRef` to
another notes ref, override it via the environment variable to force the
notes to be copied, and then verify that the notes *were* rewritten), we
make it much harder for that test case to pass for the wrong reason.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the minimum is 7-char, the unambiguous length can be longer.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 'git blame' is invoked without specifying the commit to start
blaming from, it starts from the given file's state in the work tree.
However, when invoked in a bare repository without a start commit,
then there is no work tree state to start from, and it dies with the
following error message:
$ git rev-parse --is-bare-repository
true
$ git blame file.c
fatal: this operation must be run in a work tree
This is misleading, because it implies that 'git blame' doesn't work
in bare repositories at all, but it does, in fact, work just fine when
it is given a commit to start from.
We could improve the error message, of course, but let's just default
to HEAD in a bare repository instead, as most likely that is what the
user wanted anyway (if they wanted to start from an other commit, then
they would have specified that in the first place).
'git annotate' is just a thin wrapper around 'git blame', so in the
same situation it printed the same misleading error message, and this
patch fixes it, too.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
struct stat_data and struct cache_time both use unsigned ints for all
their members. However the format string for 'git ls-files --debug'
currently uses %d for formatting these numbers. This means that we
potentially print these values incorrectly if they are greater than
INT_MAX.
This has been the case since the --debug option was introduced in 'git
ls-files' in 8497421715 ("ls-files: learn a debugging dump format",
2010-07-31).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The chance of a repository being corrupted due to a "gc" has nothing
to do with whether or not that "gc" was invoked via "gc --auto", but
whether there's other concurrent operations happening.
This is already noted earlier in the paragraph, so there's no reason
to suggest this here. The user can infer from the rest of the
documentation that "gc" will run automatically unless gc.auto=0 is
set, and we shouldn't confuse the issue by implying that "gc --auto"
is somehow more prone to produce corruption than a normal "gc".
Well, it is in the sense that a blocking "gc" would stop you from
doing anything else in *that* particular terminal window, but users
are likely to have another window, or to be worried about how
concurrent "gc" on a server might cause corruption.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amend the "NOTES" section to fix up wording that's been with us since
3ffb58be0a ("doc/git-gc: add a note about what is collected",
2008-04-23).
I can't remember when/where anymore (I think Freenode #Git), but at
some point I was having a conversation with someone who was convinced
that "gc" would prune things only referenced by e.g. refs/pull/*, and
pointed to this section as proof.
It turned out that they'd read the "branches and tags" wording here
and thought just refs/{heads,tags}/* and refs/remotes/* etc. would be
kept, which is what we enumerate explicitly.
So let's say "other refs", even though just above we say "objects that
are referenced anywhere in your repository".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amend the "PACKFILE OPTIMIZATION" section in "fast-import" to explain
that simply running "git gc --aggressive" after a "fast-import" should
properly optimize the repository. This is simpler and more effective
than the existing "repack" advice (which I'm keeping as it helps
explain things) because it e.g. also packs the newly imported refs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing "gc --aggressive" docs come just short of recommending to
users that they run it regularly. I've personally talked to many users
who've taken these docs as an advice to use this option, and have,
usually it's (mostly) a waste of time.
So let's clarify what it really does, and let the user draw their own
conclusions.
Let's also clarify the "The effects [...] are persistent" to
paraphrase a brief version of Jeff King's explanation at [1].
1. https://public-inbox.org/git/20190318235356.GK29661@sigill.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 07e7dbf0db (gc: default aggressive depth to 50, 2016-08-11) we
somewhat confusingly use the same depth under --aggressive as we do by
default.
As noted in that commit that makes sense, it was wrong to make more
depth the default for "aggressive", and thus save disk space at the
expense of runtime performance, which is usually the opposite of
someone who'd like "aggressive gc" wants.
But that's left us with a mostly-redundant configuration variable, so
let's clearly note in its documentation that it doesn't change the
default.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the AsciiDoc formatting so that an example of "gc --auto" isn't
rendered as "git-gc(1) --auto", but as "git gc --auto". This is
consistent with the rest of the links and command examples in this
documentation.
The formatting I'm changing was initially introduced in
d5d5d7b641 ("gc: automatically write commit-graph files", 2018-06-27).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config". A previous commit moved this
over from the "gc" docs, but tried to keep as many of the lines
identical to benefit from diff's move detection.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rather than duplicating the documentation for the various "gc" options
let's include the "gc" docs from git-config. They were mostly better
already, and now we don't have the same docs in two places with subtly
different wording.
In the cases where the git-gc(1) docs were saying something the "gc"
docs in git-config(1) didn't cover move the relevant section over to
the git-config(1) docs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running a command like "git show" or "git diff" in a partial clone,
batch all missing blobs to be fetched as one request.
This is similar to c0c578b33c ("unpack-trees: batch fetching of missing
blobs", 2017-12-08), but for another command.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King
Junio C Hamano
SZEDER Gábor
Johannes Schindelin
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
brian m. carlson
Kyle Meyer
Denton Liu
Todd Zullinger
Philip Oakley
Thomas Gummerer
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Jonathan Tan