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Jeff King
8e21d63b02 clone: create intermediate directories of destination repo
The shell version used to use "mkdir -p" to create the repo
path, but the C version just calls "mkdir". Let's replicate
the old behavior. We have to create the git and worktree
leading dirs separately; while most of the time, the
worktree dir contains the git dir (as .git), the user can
override this using GIT_WORK_TREE.

We can reuse safe_create_leading_directories, but we need to
make a copy of our const buffer to do so. Since
merge-recursive uses the same pattern, we can factor this
out into a global function. This has two other cleanup
advantages for merge-recursive:

  1. mkdir_p wasn't a very good name. "mkdir -p foo/bar" actually
     creates bar, but this function just creates the leading
     directories.

  2. mkdir_p took a mode argument, but it was completely
     ignored.

Acked-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-24 23:23:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f98f8cbac0 Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix
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>
2008-06-24 19:06:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ba2d0f4f35 pre-rebase hook update
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>
2008-06-24 19:06:06 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
27d69a465d refactor pack structure allocation
New pack structures are currently allocated in 2 different places
and all members have to be initialized explicitly.  This is prone
to errors leading to segmentation faults as found by Teemu Likonen.

Let's have a common place where this structure is allocated, and have
all members explicitly initialized to zero.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-24 17:03:44 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
29b0d01912 test case for pack resilience against corruptions
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-23 21:29:37 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
8eca0b47ff implement some resilience against pack corruptions
We should be able to fall back to loose objects or alternative packs when
a pack becomes corrupted.  This is especially true when an object exists
in one pack only as a delta but its base object is corrupted.  Currently
there is no way to retrieve the former object even if the later is
available in another pack or loose.

This patch allows for a delta to be resolved (with a performance cost)
using a base object from a source other than the pack where that delta
is located.  Same thing for non-delta objects: rather than failing
outright, a search is made in other packs or used loose when the
currently active pack has it but corrupted.

Of course git will become extremely noisy with error messages when that
happens.  However, if the operation succeeds nevertheless, a simple
'git repack -a -f -d' will "fix" the corrupted repository given that all
corrupted objects have a good duplicate somewhere in the object store,
possibly manually copied from another source.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-23 21:29:33 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
1f5c74f6cf call init_pack_revindex() lazily
This makes life much easier for next patch, as well as being more efficient
when the revindex is actually not used.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-23 21:25:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6b516d984b Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-svn: make rebuild respect rewriteRoot option
  Workaround for AIX mkstemp()
2008-06-23 17:52:02 -07:00
Jan Krüger
74b1e12357 git-svn: make rebuild respect rewriteRoot option
Suppose someone fetches git-svn-ified commits from another repo and then
attempts to use 'git-svn init --rewrite-root=foo bar'. Using git svn rebase
after that will fail badly:

 * For each commit tried by working_head_info, rebuild is called indirectly.
 * rebuild will iterate over all commits and skip all of them because the
   URL does not match. Because of that no rev_map file is generated at all.
 * Thus, rebuild will run once for every commit. This takes ages.
 * In the end there still isn't any rev_map file and thus working_head_info
   fails.

Addressing this behaviour fixes an apparently not too uncommon problem with
providing git-svn mirrors of Subversion repositories. Some repositories are
accessed using different URLs depending on whether the user has push
privileges or not. In the latter case, an anonymous URL is often used that
differs from the push URL. Providing a mirror that is usable in both cases
becomes a lot more possible with this change.

Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-23 17:38:08 -07:00
Patrick Higgins
6ff6af62ec Workaround for AIX mkstemp()
The AIX mkstemp will modify it's template parameter to an empty string if
the call fails. This caused a subsequent mkdir to fail.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Higgins <patrick.higgins@cexp.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-23 16:13:38 -07:00
Michele Ballabio
f2ab7f82b7 t9301-fast-export.sh: Remove debug line
Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-23 13:01:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
112db553b0 Shrink the git binary a bit by avoiding unnecessary inline functions
So I was looking at the disgusting size of the git binary, and even with
the debugging removed, and using -Os instead of -O2, the size of the text
section was pretty high. In this day and age I guess almost a megabyte of
text isn't really all that surprising, but it still doesn't exactly make
me think "lean and mean".

With -Os, a surprising amount of text space is wasted on inline functions
that end up just being replicated multiple times, and where performance
really isn't a valid reason to inline them. In particular, the trivial
wrapper functions like "xmalloc()" are used _everywhere_, and making them
inline just duplicates the text (and the string we use to 'die()' on
failure) unnecessarily.

So this just moves them into a "wrapper.c" file, getting rid of a tiny bit
of unnecessary bloat. The following numbers are both with "CFLAGS=-Os":

Before:
	[torvalds@woody git]$ size git
	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
	 700460	  15160	 292184	1007804	  f60bc	git

After:
	[torvalds@woody git]$ size git
	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
	 670540	  15160	 292184	 977884	  eebdc	git

so it saves almost 30k of text-space (it actually saves more than that
with the default -O2, but I don't think that's necessarily a very relevant
number from a "try to shrink git" standpoint).

It might conceivably have a performance impact, but none of this should be
_that_ performance critical. The real cost is not generally in the wrapper
anyway, but in the code it wraps (ie the cost of "xread()" is all in the
read itself, not in the trivial wrapping of it).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-22 18:46:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0bd64f82ba Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Extend parse-options test suite
  api-parse-options.txt: Introduce documentation for parse options API
  parse-options.c: fix documentation syntax of optional arguments
  api-builtin.txt: update and fix typo
2008-06-22 18:39:37 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
010a2dacc1 Extend parse-options test suite
This patch serves two purposes:
 1. test-parse-option.c should be a more complete
    example for the parse-options API, and
 2. there have been no tests for OPT_CALLBACK,
    OPT_DATE, OPT_BIT, OPT_SET_INT and OPT_SET_PTR
    before.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-22 18:15:18 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
224712e521 api-parse-options.txt: Introduce documentation for parse options API
Add some documentation of basics, macros and callback
implementation of the parse-options API.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-22 18:14:58 -07:00
Michele Ballabio
6422f63321 parse-options.c: fix documentation syntax of optional arguments
When an argument for an option is optional, short options don't need a
space between the option and the argument, and long options need a "=".
Otherwise, arguments are misinterpreted.

Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-22 18:14:37 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
82936f295f api-builtin.txt: update and fix typo
Mention NEED_WORK_TREE flag and command-list.txt.
Fix "bulit-in" typo and AsciiDoc-formatting of a paragraph.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-22 18:14:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9523298c95 Merge branch 'rs/archive-ignore'
* rs/archive-ignore:
  Teach new attribute 'export-ignore' to git-archive
2008-06-22 14:46:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
159e639e5b Merge branch 'lt/racy-empty'
* lt/racy-empty:
  racy-git: an empty blob has a fixed object name
2008-06-22 14:34:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6b8791982c Merge branch 'sn/static'
* sn/static:
  config.c: make git_env_bool() static
  environment.c: remove unused function
2008-06-22 14:34:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bc9c3e0b93 Merge branch 'jc/maint-combine-diff-pre-context'
* jc/maint-combine-diff-pre-context:
  diff -c/--cc: do not include uninteresting deletion before leading context
2008-06-22 14:33:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8bcff62baf Merge branch 'lt/maint-gitdir-relative'
* lt/maint-gitdir-relative:
  Make git_dir a path relative to work_tree in setup_work_tree()
2008-06-22 14:33:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6419cd5566 Merge branch 'jk/test'
* jk/test:
  enable whitespace checking of test scripts
  avoid trailing whitespace in zero-change diffstat lines
  avoid whitespace on empty line in automatic usage message
  mask necessary whitespace policy violations in test scripts
  fix whitespace violations in test scripts
2008-06-22 14:33:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dd503ed4d1 Merge branch 'pb/fast-export'
* pb/fast-export:
  builtin-fast-export: Add importing and exporting of revision marks
2008-06-22 14:32:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1947bdbc31 Merge branch 'mo/status-untracked'
* mo/status-untracked:
  Add configuration option for default untracked files mode
  Add argument 'no' commit/status option -u|--untracked-files
  Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option

Conflicts:

	Documentation/git-commit.txt
2008-06-22 14:32:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
66915b5d7c Merge branch 'kh/update-ref'
* kh/update-ref:
  Make old sha1 optional with git update-ref -d
  Clean up builtin-update-ref's option parsing
2008-06-22 14:31:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5389db544d Merge branch 'jn/web'
* jn/web:
  gitweb: Separate generating 'sort by' table header
  gitweb: Separate filling list of projects info
2008-06-22 14:31:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4eda12f13a Merge branch 'rg/gitweb'
* rg/gitweb:
  gitweb: remove git_blame and rename git_blame2 to git_blame
2008-06-22 14:31:44 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
73f03627f4 Correct documentation for git-push --mirror
This option behaves more like:

  git push $url +refs/*:refs/*

than it does like:

  git push $url +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

so we should document it to be more clear about that.

Suggested-by: Marek Zawirski <marek.zawirski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-21 00:02:45 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
fbd458a3f6 t/README: Add 'Skipping Tests' section below 'Running Tests'
Add description of GIT_SKIP_TESTS variable, taken almost verbatim
(adjusting for conventions in t/README) from the commit message in

   04ece59 (GIT_SKIP_TESTS: allow users to omit tests that are known to break)

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-21 00:02:31 -07:00
Cristian Peraferrer
cdeaf10f7e Print errno upon failure to open the COMMIT_EDITMSG file
When the COMMIT_EDITMSG cannot be opened, give more information to the user
by giving the 'errno' information.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Peraferrer <corellian.c@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-21 00:01:37 -07:00
Teemu Likonen
ae081f3ebd Add target "install-html" the the top level Makefile
This makes it possible to install html documents from the top level
directory. Previously such target was only in Documentation/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-21 00:01:18 -07:00
Teemu Likonen
66aafad5e4 bash: Add more option completions for 'git log'
Options added: --walk-reflogs --stat --numstat --shortstat
--decorate --diff-filter= --color-words

Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-20 10:32:47 -07:00
Lukas Sandström
0c3d26d24a Add a helper script to send patches with Mozilla Thunderbird
The script appp.sh can be used with the External Editor extension for
Mozilla Thunderbird in order to be able to send inline patches in an
easy way.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 22:40:42 -07:00
しらいしななこ
e4bffb5a1d config.c: make git_env_bool() static
This function is not used by any other file.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 17:07:41 -07:00
しらいしななこ
78d0f5d210 environment.c: remove unused function
get_refs_directory() is not used anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 17:07:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
044bbbcb63 Make git_dir a path relative to work_tree in setup_work_tree()
Once we find the absolute paths for git_dir and work_tree, we can make
git_dir a relative path since we know pwd will be work_tree. This should
save the kernel some time traversing the path to work_tree all the time
if git_dir is inside work_tree.

Daniel's patch didn't apply for me as-is, so I recreated it with some
differences, and here are the numbers from ten runs each.

There is some IO for me - probably due to more-or-less random flushing of
the journal - so the variation is bigger than I'd like, but whatever:

	Before:
		real    0m8.135s
		real    0m7.933s
		real    0m8.080s
		real    0m7.954s
		real    0m7.949s
		real    0m8.112s
		real    0m7.934s
		real    0m8.059s
		real    0m7.979s
		real    0m8.038s

	After:
		real    0m7.685s
		real    0m7.968s
		real    0m7.703s
		real    0m7.850s
		real    0m7.995s
		real    0m7.817s
		real    0m7.963s
		real    0m7.955s
		real    0m7.848s
		real    0m7.969s

Now, going by "best of ten" (on the assumption that the longer numbers
are all due to IO), I'm saying a 7.933s -> 7.685s reduction, and it does
seem to be outside of the noise (ie the "after" case never broke 8s, while
the "before" case did so half the time).

So looks like about 3% to me.

Doing it for a slightly smaller test-case (just the "arch" subdirectory)
gets more stable numbers probably due to not filling the journal with
metadata updates, so we have:

	Before:
		real    0m1.633s
		real    0m1.633s
		real    0m1.633s
		real    0m1.632s
		real    0m1.632s
		real    0m1.630s
		real    0m1.634s
		real    0m1.631s
		real    0m1.632s
		real    0m1.632s

	After:
		real    0m1.610s
		real    0m1.609s
		real    0m1.610s
		real    0m1.608s
		real    0m1.607s
		real    0m1.610s
		real    0m1.609s
		real    0m1.611s
		real    0m1.608s
		real    0m1.611s

where I'ld just take the averages and say 1.632 vs 1.610, which is just
over 1% peformance improvement.

So it's not in the noise, but it's not as big as I initially thought and
measured.

(That said, it obviously depends on how deep the working directory path is
too, and whether it is behind NFS or something else that might need to
cause more work to look up).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 16:44:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d3e977b943 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: fix formatting in git-svn
  t7502-commit.sh: test_must_fail doesn't work with inline environment variables
  completion: add --graph to log command completion
  git-merge.sh: fix typo in usage message: sucesses --> succeeds
2008-06-19 16:30:48 -07:00
Jan Krüger
3b2bbe9b85 Documentation: fix formatting in git-svn
Due to a misplaced list block separator, general hints about the config
file options got indented at the same level as the description of the last
option, making it easy to miss them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 16:30:26 -07:00
Brandon Casey
e200783255 t7502-commit.sh: test_must_fail doesn't work with inline environment variables
When the arguments to test_must_fail() begin with a variable assignment,
test_must_fail() attempts to execute the variable assignment as a command.
This fails, and so test_must_fail returns with a successful status value
without running the command it was intended to test.

For example, the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	test_must_fail () {
		"$@"
		test $? -gt 0 -a $? -le 129
	}
	foo='wo adrian'
	test_must_fail foo='yo adrian' sh -c 'echo foo: $foo'

always exits zero and prints the message:

	test.sh: line 3: foo=yo adrian: command not found

Test 16 calls test_must_fail in such a way and therefore has not been
testing whether git 'do[es] not fire editor in the presence of conflicts'.

A workaround is to set and export the variable in a normal way, not
using one-shot notation.  Because this would affect the remainder of
the process, the test is done inside a subshell.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 16:07:06 -07:00
Dan McGee
20827d99c5 completion: add --graph to log command completion
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 16:02:31 -07:00
Pieter de Bie
df6a7ff7ac builtin-fast-export: Add importing and exporting of revision marks
This adds the --import-marks and --export-marks to fast-export. These import
and export the marks used to for all revisions exported in a similar fashion
to what fast-import does. The format is the same as fast-import, so you can
create a bidirectional importer / exporter by using the same marks file on
both sides.

Signed-off-by: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 15:52:53 -07:00
Lea Wiemann
5e2c08c6f0 test-lib.sh: add --long-tests option
Add a --long-tests option to test-lib.sh, which enables tests to
selectively run more exhaustive (longer running, potentially
brute-force) tests.  Such exhaustive tests would only be useful if one
works on the specific module that is being tested -- for a general "cd
t/; make" to check whether everything is OK, such exhaustive tests
shouldn't be run by default since the longer it takes to run the
tests, the less often they are actually run.

Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 14:21:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f49c2c22fe racy-git: an empty blob has a fixed object name
We use size=0 as the magic token to say the entry is known to be racily
clean, but a sequence that does:

 - update the path with a non-empty blob and write the index;
 - update an unrelated path and write the index -- this smudges
   the above entry;
 - truncate the path to size zero.

would make both the size field for the path in the index and the size on
the filesystem zero.  We should not mistake it as a clean index entry.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 14:14:45 -07:00
Brandon Casey
037e98f202 git-merge.sh: fix typo in usage message: sucesses --> succeeds
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 14:13:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c86fbe5332 diff -c/--cc: do not include uninteresting deletion before leading context
When we include a few uninteresting lines before the interesting ones as
context, we are only interested in seeing the surviving lines themselves
and not the deleted lines that are before them.  Mark the added leading
context lines in give_context() and not show deleted lines form them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-18 23:59:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e449f10580 GIT 1.5.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
v1.5.6
2008-06-18 13:09:43 -07:00
Jeff King
9a7bbd1dd1 clean up error conventions of remote.c:match_explicit
match_explicit is called for each push refspec to try to
fully resolve the source and destination sides of the
refspec.  Currently, we look at each refspec and report
errors on both the source and the dest side before aborting.

It makes sense to report errors for each refspec, since an
error in one is independent of an error in the other.
However, reporting errors on the 'dst' side of a refspec if
there has been an error on the 'src' side does not
necessarily make sense, since the interpretation of the
'dst' side depends on the 'src' side (for example, when
creating a new unqualified remote ref, we use the same type
as the src ref).

This patch lets match_explicit return early when the src
side of the refspec is bogus. We still look at all of the
refspecs before aborting the push, though.

At the same time, we clean up the call signature, which
previously took an extra "errs" flag. This was pointless, as
we didn't act on that flag, but rather just passed it back
to the caller. Instead, we now use the more traditional
"return -1" to signal an error, and the caller aggregates
the error count.

This change fixes two bugs, as well:

  - the early return avoids a segfault when passing a NULL
    matched_src to guess_ref()

  - the check for multiple sources pointing to a single dest
    aborted if the "err" flag was set. Presumably the intent
    was not to bother with the check if we had no
    matched_src. However, since the err flag was passed in
    from the caller, we might abort the check just because a
    previous refspec had a problem, which doesn't make
    sense.

    In practice, this didn't matter, since due to the error
    flag we end up aborting the push anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-18 12:39:13 -07:00
Olivier Marin
8c6b57860d Fix approxidate("never") to always return 0
Commit af66366a9feb0194ed04b1f538998021ece268a8 introduced the keyword
"never" to be used with approxidate() but defined it with a fixed date
without taking care of timezone. As a result approxidate() will return
a timestamp in the future with a negative timezone.

With this patch, approxidate("never") always return 0 whatever your
timezone is.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-17 16:40:09 -07:00
Alejandro Mery
1d9b26562e git-am: head -1 is obsolete and doesn't work on some new systems
head -<n> was deprecated by POSIX, and as modern versions of coreutils
package don't support it at least one exports _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
it's fails on some systems.

head -n<n> is portable, but sed <n>q is even more.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Mery <amery@geeks.cl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-17 16:40:09 -07:00