The word-diff mode has been taught to work better with a word
regexp that can match an empty string.
* pw/word-diff-zero-width-matches:
word diff: handle zero length matches
"git push" learns to discover common ancestor with the receiving
end over protocol v2.
* jt/push-negotiation:
send-pack: support push negotiation
fetch: teach independent negotiation (no packfile)
fetch-pack: refactor command and capability write
fetch-pack: refactor add_haves()
fetch-pack: refactor process_acks()
xdl_prepare_env() calls xdl_classify_record() which arranges for the
hashes of non-matching lines to be different so lines can be tested
for equality by comparing just their hashes.
This reduces the time taken to calculate the diff of v2.28.0 to
v2.29.0 by ~3-4%.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If find_word_boundaries() encounters a zero length match (which can be
caused by matching a newline or using '*' instead of '+' in the regex)
we stop splitting the input into words which generates an inaccurate
diff. To fix this increment the start point when there is a zero
length match and try a new match. This is safe as posix regular
expressions always return the longest available match so a zero length
match means there are no longer matches available from the current
position.
Commit bf82940dbf (color-words: enable REG_NEWLINE to help user,
2009-01-17) prevented matching newlines in negated character classes
but it is still possible for the user to have an explicit newline
match in the regex which could cause a zero length match.
One could argue that having explicit newline matches or using '*'
rather than '+' are user errors but it seems to be better to work
round them than produce inaccurate diffs.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A HTTP-clone test introduced in 4fe788b1b0 ("builtin/clone.c: add
--reject-shallow option", 2021-04-01) only works in protocol v2, but is
not marked as such.
The aforementioned patch implements --reject-shallow for a variety of
situations, but usage of a protocol that requires a remote helper is not
one of them. (Such an implementation would require extending the remote
helper protocol to support the passing of a "reject shallow" option, and
then teaching it to both protocol-speaking ends.)
For now, to make it pass when GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=0 is passed, add
"-c protocol.version=2". A more complete solution would be either to
augment the remote helper protocol to support this feature or to return
a fatal error when using --reject-shallow with a protocol that uses a
remote helper.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, the packfile negotiation step within a Git fetch cannot be
done independent of sending the packfile, even though there is at least
one application wherein this is useful. Therefore, make it possible for
this negotiation step to be done independently. A subsequent commit will
use this for one such application - push negotiation.
This feature is for protocol v2 only. (An implementation for protocol v0
would require a separate implementation in the fetch, transport, and
transport helper code.)
In the protocol, the main hindrance towards independent negotiation is
that the server can unilaterally decide to send the packfile. This is
solved by a "wait-for-done" argument: the server will then wait for the
client to say "done". In practice, the client will never say it; instead
it will cease requests once it is satisfied.
In the client, the main change lies in the transport and transport
helper code. fetch_refs_via_pack() performs everything needed - protocol
version and capability checks, and the negotiation itself.
There are 2 code paths that do not go through fetch_refs_via_pack() that
needed to be individually excluded: the bundle transport (excluded
through requiring smart_options, which the bundle transport doesn't
support) and transport helpers that do not support takeover. If or when
we support independent negotiation for protocol v0, we will need to
modify these 2 code paths to support it. But for now, report failure if
independent negotiation is requested in these cases.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The way the command line specified by the trailer.<token>.command
configuration variable receives the end-user supplied value was
both error prone and misleading. An alternative to achieve the
same goal in a safer and more intuitive way has been added, as
the trailer.<token>.cmd configuration variable, to replace it.
* zh/trailer-cmd:
trailer: add new .cmd config option
docs: correct descript of trailer.<token>.command
Portability fix for command line completion script (in contrib/).
* si/zsh-complete-comment-fix:
work around zsh comment in __git_complete_worktree_paths
Various test and documentation updates about .gitsomething paths
that are symlinks.
* jk/symlinked-dotgitx-cleanup:
docs: document symlink restrictions for dot-files
fsck: warn about symlinked dotfiles we'll open with O_NOFOLLOW
t0060: test ntfs/hfs-obscured dotfiles
t7450: test .gitmodules symlink matching against obscured names
t7450: test verify_path() handling of gitmodules
t7415: rename to expand scope
fsck_tree(): wrap some long lines
fsck_tree(): fix shadowed variable
t7415: remove out-dated comment about translation
Options to "git pack-objects" that take numeric values like
--window and --depth should not accept negative values; the input
validation has been tightened.
* jk/pack-objects-negative-options-fix:
pack-objects: clamp negative depth to 0
t5316: check behavior of pack-objects --depth=0
pack-objects: clamp negative window size to 0
t5300: check that we produced expected number of deltas
t5300: modernize basic tests
"git submodule update --quiet" did not propagate the quiet option
down to underlying "git fetch", which has been corrected.
* nc/submodule-update-quiet:
submodule update: silence underlying fetch with "--quiet"
A few variants of informational message "Already up-to-date" has
been rephrased.
* js/merge-already-up-to-date-message-reword:
merge: fix swapped "up to date" message components
merge(s): apply consistent punctuation to "up to date" messages
"git bisect skip" when custom words are used for new/old did not
work, which has been corrected.
* rj/bisect-skip-honor-terms:
bisect--helper: use BISECT_TERMS in 'bisect skip' command
[PATCH]: contrib/completion/git-completion.bash, there is a construct
where comment lines are placed between the command that is on
the upstream of a pipe and the command that is on the downstream
of a pipe in __git_complete_worktree_paths function.
Unfortunately, this script is also used by Zsh completion, but
Zsh mishandles this construct when "interactive_comments" option is not
set (by default it is off on macOS), resulting in a breakage:
$ git worktree remove [TAB]
$ git worktree remove __git_complete_worktree_paths:7: command not found: #
Move the comment, even though it explains what happens on the
downstream of the pipe and logically belongs where it is right
now, before the entire pipeline, to work around this problem.
Signed-off-by: Sardorbek Imomaliev <sardorbek.imomaliev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `trailer.<token>.command` configuration variable
specifies a command (run via the shell, so it does not have
to be a single name or path to the command, but can be a
shell script), and the first occurrence of substring $ARG is
replaced with the value given to the `interpret-trailer`
command for the token in a '--trailer <token>=<value>' argument.
This has three downsides:
* The use of $ARG in the mechanism misleads the users that
the value is passed in the shell variable, and tempt them
to use $ARG more than once, but that would not work, as
the second and subsequent $ARG are not replaced.
* Because $ARG is textually replaced without regard to the
shell language syntax, even '$ARG' (inside a single-quote
pair), which a user would expect to stay intact, would be
replaced, and worse, if the value had an unmatched single
quote (imagine a name like "O'Connor", substituted into
NAME='$ARG' to make it NAME='O'Connor'), it would result in
a broken command that is not syntactically correct (or
worse).
* The first occurrence of substring `$ARG` will be replaced
with the empty string, in the command when the command is
first called to add a trailer with the specified <token>.
This is a bad design, the nature of automatic execution
causes it to add a trailer that we don't expect.
Introduce a new `trailer.<token>.cmd` configuration that
takes higher precedence to deprecate and eventually remove
`trailer.<token>.command`, which passes the value as an
argument to the command. Instead of "$ARG", users can
refer to the value as positional argument, $1, in their
scripts. At the same time, in order to allow
`git interpret-trailers` to better simulate the behavior
of `git command -s`, 'trailer.<token>.cmd' will not
automatically execute.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the original documentation of `trailer.<token>.command`,
some descriptions are easily misunderstood. So let's modify
it to increase its readability.
In addition, clarify that `$ARG` in command can only be
replaced once.
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We stopped allowing symlinks for .gitmodules files in 10ecfa7649
(verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules, 2018-05-04), and we
stopped following symlinks for .gitattributes, .gitignore, and .mailmap
in the commits from 204333b015 (Merge branch 'jk/open-dotgitx-with-nofollow',
2021-03-22). The reasons are discussed in detail there, but we never
adjusted the documentation to let users know.
This hasn't been a big deal since the point is that such setups were
mildly broken and thought to be unusual anyway. But it certainly doesn't
hurt to be clear and explicit about it.
Suggested-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the commits merged in via 204333b015 (Merge branch
'jk/open-dotgitx-with-nofollow', 2021-03-22), we stopped following
symbolic links for .gitattributes, .gitignore, and .mailmap files.
Let's teach fsck to warn that these symlinks are not going to do
anything. Note that this is just a warning, and won't block the objects
via transfer.fsckObjects, since there are reported to be cases of this
in the wild (and even once fixed, they will continue to exist in the
commit history of those projects, but are not particularly dangerous).
Note that we won't add these to the existing gitmodules block in the
fsck code. The logic for gitmodules is a bit more complicated, as we
also check the content of non-symlink instances we find. But for these
new files, there is no content check; we're just looking at the name and
mode of the tree entry (and we can avoid even the complicated name
checks in the common case that the mode doesn't indicate a symlink).
We can reuse the test helper function we defined for .gitmodules, though
(it needs some slight adjustments for the fsck error code, and because
we don't block these symlinks via verify_path()).
Note that I didn't explicitly test the transfer.fsckObjects case here
(nor does the existing .gitmodules test that it blocks a push). The
translation of fsck severities to outcomes is covered in general in
t5504.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have tests that cover various filesystem-specific spellings of
".gitmodules", because we need to reliably identify that path for some
security checks. These are from dc2d9ba318 (is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules:
add tests, 2018-05-12), with the actual code coming from e7cb0b4455
(is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files, 2018-05-11) and 0fc333ba20
(is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files, 2018-05-02).
Those latter two commits also added similar matching functions for
.gitattributes and .gitignore. These ended up not being used in the
final series, and are currently dead code. But in preparation for them
being used in some fsck checks, let's make sure they actually work by
throwing a few basic tests at them. Likewise, let's cover .mailmap
(which does need matching code added).
I didn't bother with the whole battery of tests that we cover for
.gitmodules. These functions are all based on the same generic matcher,
so it's sufficient to test most of the corner cases just once.
Note that the ntfs magic prefix names in the tests come from the
algorithm described in e7cb0b4455 (and are different for each file).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In t7450 we check that both verify_path() and fsck catch malformed
.gitmodules entries in trees. However, we don't check that we catch
filesystem-equivalent forms of these (e.g., ".GITMOD~1" on Windows).
Our name-matching functions are exercised well in t0060, but there's
nothing to test that we correctly call the matching functions from the
actual fsck and verify_path() code.
So instead of testing just .gitmodules, let's repeat our tests for a few
basic cases. We don't need to be exhaustive here (t0060 handles that),
but just make sure we hit one name of each type.
Besides pushing the tests into a function that takes the path as a
parameter, we'll need to do a few things:
- adjust the directory name to accommodate the tests running multiple
times
- set core.protecthfs for index checks. Fsck always protects all types
by default, but we want to be able to exercise the HFS routines on
every system. Note that core.protectntfs is already the default
these days, but it doesn't hurt to explicitly label our need for it.
- we'll also take the filename ("gitmodules") as a parameter. All
calls use the same name for now, but a future patch will extend this
to handle other .gitfoo files. Note that our fake-content symlink
destination is somewhat .gitmodules specific. But it isn't necessary
for other files (which don't do a content check). And it happens to
be a valid attribute and ignore file anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 10ecfa7649 (verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules,
2018-05-04) made it impossible to load a symlink .gitmodules file into
the index. However, there are no tests of this behavior. Let's make sure
this case is covered. We can easily reuse the test setup created by
the matching b7b1fca175 (fsck: complain when .gitmodules is a symlink,
2018-05-04).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git subtree" updates.
* ls/subtree: (30 commits)
subtree: be stricter about validating flags
subtree: push: allow specifying a local rev other than HEAD
subtree: allow 'split' flags to be passed to 'push'
subtree: allow --squash to be used with --rejoin
subtree: give the docs a once-over
subtree: have $indent actually affect indentation
subtree: don't let debug and progress output clash
subtree: add comments and sanity checks
subtree: remove duplicate check
subtree: parse revs in individual cmd_ functions
subtree: use "^{commit}" instead of "^0"
subtree: don't fuss with PATH
subtree: use "$*" instead of "$@" as appropriate
subtree: use more explicit variable names for cmdline args
subtree: use git-sh-setup's `say`
subtree: use `git merge-base --is-ancestor`
subtree: drop support for git < 1.7
subtree: more consistent error propagation
subtree: don't have loose code outside of a function
subtree: t7900: add porcelain tests for 'pull' and 'push'
...
"git repack -A -d" in a partial clone unnecessarily loosened
objects in promisor pack.
* rs/repack-without-loosening-promised-objects:
repack: avoid loosening promisor objects in partial clones
SHA-256 transition.
* bc/hash-transition-interop-part-1:
hex: print objects using the hash algorithm member
hex: default to the_hash_algo on zero algorithm value
builtin/pack-objects: avoid using struct object_id for pack hash
commit-graph: don't store file hashes as struct object_id
builtin/show-index: set the algorithm for object IDs
hash: provide per-algorithm null OIDs
hash: set, copy, and use algo field in struct object_id
builtin/pack-redundant: avoid casting buffers to struct object_id
Use the final_oid_fn to finalize hashing of object IDs
hash: add a function to finalize object IDs
http-push: set algorithm when reading object ID
Always use oidread to read into struct object_id
hash: add an algo member to struct object_id
Further update the command line completion (in contrib/) for "git
stash".
* dl/complete-stash-updates:
git-completion.bash: consolidate cases in _git_stash()
git-completion.bash: use $__git_cmd_idx in more places
git-completion.bash: rename to $__git_cmd_idx
git-completion.bash: separate some commands onto their own line
This script has already expanded beyond its original intent of ".. in
submodule names" to include other malicious submodule bits. Let's update
the name and description to reflect that, as well as the fact that we'll
soon be adding similar tests for other dotfiles (.gitattributes, etc).
We'll also renumber it to move it out of the group of submodule-specific
tests.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many calls to report() in fsck_tree() are kept on a single line and are
quite long. Most were pretty big to begin with, but have gotten even
longer over the years as we've added more parameters. Let's accept the
churn of wrapping them in order to conform to our usual line limits.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit b2f2039c2b (fsck: accept an oid instead of a "struct tree" for
fsck_tree(), 2019-10-18) introduced a new "oid" parameter to
fsck_tree(), and we pass it to the report() function when we find
problems. However, that is shadowed within the tree-walking loop by the
existing "oid" variable which we use to store the oid of each tree
entry. As a result, we may report the wrong oid for some problems we
detect within the loop (the entry oid, instead of the tree oid).
Our tests didn't catch this because they checked only that we found the
expected fsck problem, not that it was attached to the correct object.
Let's rename both variables in the function to avoid confusion. This
makes the diff a little noisy (e.g., all of the report() calls outside
the loop were already correct but need to be touched), but makes sure we
catch all cases and will avoid similar confusion in the future.
And we can update the test to be a bit more specific and catch this
problem.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since GETTEXT_POISON does not exist anymore, there is no point warning
people about whether we should use test_i18ngrep. This is doubly
confusing because the comment was describing why it was OK to use grep,
but it got caught up in the mass conversion of 674ba34038 (fsck: mark
strings for translation, 2018-11-10).
Note there are other uses of test_i18ngrep in this script which are now
obsolete; I'll save those for a mass-cleanup. My goal here was just to
fix the confusing comment in code I'm about to refactor.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Format-patch doesn't have a way to format merges in a way that can be
applied by git-am (or any other tool), and so it just omits them.
However, this may be a surprising implication for users who are not well
versed in how the tool works. Let's add a note to the documentation
making this more clear.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A negative delta depth makes no sense, and the code is not prepared to
handle it. If passed "--depth=-1" on the command line, then this line
from break_delta_chains():
cur->depth = (total_depth--) % (depth + 1);
triggers a divide-by-zero. This is undefined behavior according to the C
standard, but on POSIX systems results in SIGFPE killing the process.
This is certainly one way to inform the use that the command was
invalid, but it's a bit friendlier to just treat it as "don't allow any
deltas", which we already do for --depth=0.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We'd expect this to cleanly produce no deltas at all (as opposed to
getting confused by an out-of-bounds value), and it does.
Note we have to adjust our max_chain test helper, which expected to find
at least one delta.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A negative window size makes no sense, and the code in find_deltas() is
not prepared to handle it. If you pass "-1", for example, we end up
generate a 0-length array of "struct unpacked", but our loop assumes it
has at least one entry in it (and we end up reading garbage memory).
We could complain to the user about this, but it's more forgiving to
just clamp it to 0, which means "do not find any deltas at all". The
0-case is already tested earlier in the script, so we'll make sure this
does the same thing.
Reported-by: Yiyuan guo <yguoaz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We pack a set of objects both with and without --window=0, assuming that
the 0-length window will cause us not to produce any deltas. Let's
confirm that this is the case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first set of tests in t5300 goes back to 2005, and doesn't use some
of our customary style and tools these days. In preparation for touching
them, let's modernize a few things:
- titles go on the line with test_expect_success, with a hanging
open-quote to start the test body
- test bodies should be indented with tabs
- opening braces for shell blocks in &&-chains go on their own line
- no space between redirect operators and files (">foo", not "> foo")
- avoid doing work outside of test blocks; in this case, we can stick
the setup of ".git2" into the appropriate blocks
- avoid modifying and then cleaning up the environment or current
directory by using subshells and "git -C"
- this test does a curious thing when testing the unpacking: it sets
GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, and then does a "git init" in the _original_
directory, creating a weird mixed situation. Instead, it's much
simpler to just "git init --bare" a new repository to unpack into,
and check the results there. I renamed this "git2" instead of
".git2" to make it more clear it's a separate repo.
- we can observe that the bodies of the no-delta, ref_delta, and
ofs_delta cases are all virtually identical except for the pack
creation, and factor out shared helper functions. I collapsed "do
the unpack" and "check the results of the unpack" into a single
test, since that makes the expected lifetime of the "git2" temporary
directory more clear (that also lets us use test_when_finished to
clean it up). This does make the "-v" output slightly less useful,
but the improvement in reading the actual test code makes it worth
it.
- I dropped the "pwd" calls from some tests. These don't do anything
functional, and I suspect may have been an aid for debugging when
the script was more cavalier about leaving the working directory
changed between tests.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
01d3a526 (t0000: check whether the shell supports the "local"
keyword, 2017-10-26) raised a test balloon to see if those who build
and test Git use a platform with a shell that lacks support for the
"local" keyword. After two years, 7f0b5908 (t0000: reword comments
for "local" test, 2019-08-08) documented that "local" keyword, even
though is outside POSIX, is allowed in our test scripts.
Let's write it in the CodingGuidelines, too. It might be tempting
to allow it in scripted Porcelains (we have avoided getting them
contaminiated by "local" so far), but they are on their way out and
getting rewritten in C.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rewrite of git-merge from shell to C in 1c7b76be7d (Build in merge,
2008-07-07) accidentally transformed the message:
Already up-to-date. (nothing to squash)
to:
(nothing to squash)Already up-to-date.
due to reversed printf() arguments. This problem has gone unnoticed
despite being touched over the years by 7f87aff22c (Teach/Fix pull/fetch
-q/-v options, 2008-11-15) and bacec47845 (i18n: git-merge basic
messages, 2011-02-22), and tangentially by bef4830e88 (i18n: merge: mark
messages for translation, 2016-06-17) and 7560f547e6 (treewide: correct
several "up-to-date" to "up to date", 2017-08-23).
Fix it by restoring the message to its intended order. While at it, help
translators out by avoiding "sentence Lego".
[es: rewrote commit message]
Co-authored-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although the various "Already up to date" messages resulting from merge
attempts share identical phrasing, they use a mix of punctuation ranging
from "." to "!" and even "Yeeah!", which leads to extra work for
translators. Ease the job of translators by settling upon "." as
punctuation for all such messages.
While at it, take advantage of printf_ln() to further ease the
translation task so translators need not worry about line termination,
and fix a case of missing line termination in the (unused)
merge_ort_nonrecursive() function.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commands such as
$ git submodule update --quiet --init --depth=1
involving shallow clones, call the shell function fetch_in_submodule, which
in turn invokes git fetch. Pass the --quiet option onward there.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Plug various leans reported by LSAN.
* ah/plugleaks:
builtin/rm: avoid leaking pathspec and seen
builtin/rebase: release git_format_patch_opt too
builtin/for-each-ref: free filter and UNLEAK sorting.
mailinfo: also free strbuf lists when clearing mailinfo
builtin/checkout: clear pending objects after diffing
builtin/check-ignore: clear_pathspec before returning
builtin/bugreport: don't leak prefixed filename
branch: FREE_AND_NULL instead of NULL'ing real_ref
bloom: clear each bloom_key after use
ls-files: free max_prefix when done
wt-status: fix multiple small leaks
revision: free remainder of old commit list in limit_list
"git log --format=..." placeholders learned %ah/%ch placeholders to
request the --date=human output.
* zh/pretty-date-human:
pretty: provide human date format
"git (branch|tag) --format=..." has been micro-optimized.
* zh/format-ref-array-optim:
ref-filter: reuse output buffer
ref-filter: get rid of show_ref_array_item