An alias that expands to another alias has so far been forbidden,
but now it is allowed to create such an alias.
* ts/alias-of-alias:
t0014: introduce an alias testing suite
alias: show the call history when an alias is looping
alias: add support for aliases of an alias
Most git commands respond to -h anywhere in the command line, or at
least as a first and lone argument, by printing the usage
information. For aliases, we can provide a little more information that
might be useful in interpreting/understanding the following output by
prepending a line telling that the command is an alias, and for what.
When one invokes a simple alias, such as "cp = cherry-pick"
with -h, this results in
$ git cp -h
'cp' is aliased to 'cherry-pick'
usage: git cherry-pick [<options>] <commit-ish>...
...
When the alias consists of more than one word, this provides the
additional benefit of informing the user which options are implicit in
using the alias, e.g. with "cp = cherry-pick -n":
$ git cp -h
'cp' is aliased to 'cherry-pick -n'
usage: git cherry-pick [<options>] <commit-ish>...
...
For shell commands, we cannot know how it responds to -h, but printing
this line to stderr should not hurt, and can help in figuring out what
is happening in a case like
$ git sc -h
'sc' is aliased to '!somecommand'
somecommand: invalid option '-h'
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This moves the rebase--helper modes still used by
git-rebase--preserve-merges.sh (`--shorten-ids`, `--expand-ids`,
`--check-todo-list`, `--rearrange-squash` and `--add-exec-commands`) to
rebase--interactive.c.
git-rebase--preserve-merges.sh is modified accordingly, and
rebase--helper.c is removed as it is useless now.
Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This removes git-rebase--interactive.sh, as its functionnality has been
replaced by git-rebase--interactive2.
git-rebase--interactive2.c is then renamed to git-rebase--interactive.c.
Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This rewrites the part of interactive rebase which initializes the
basic state, make the script and complete the action, as a buitin, named
git-rebase--interactive2 for now. Others modes (`--continue`,
`--edit-todo`, etc.) will be rewritten in the next commit.
git-rebase--interactive.sh is modified to call git-rebase--interactive2
instead of git-rebase--helper.
Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Just printing the command that the user entered is not particularly
helpful when trying to find the alias that causes the loop.
Print the history of substituted commands to help the user find the
offending alias. Mark the entrypoint of the loop with "<==" and the
last command (which looped back to the entrypoint) with "==>".
Signed-off-by: Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Aliases can only contain non-alias git commands and their arguments,
not other user-defined aliases. Resolving further (nested) aliases
is prevented by breaking the loop after the first alias was
processed. Git then fails with a command-not-found error.
Allow resolving nested aliases by not breaking the loop in
run_argv() after the first alias was processed. Instead, continue
the loop until `handle_alias()` fails, which means that there are no
further aliases that can be processed. Prevent looping aliases by
storing substituted commands in `cmd_list` and checking if a command
has been substituted previously.
While we're at it, fix a styling issue just below the added code.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ds/multi-pack-index: (23 commits)
midx: clear midx on repack
packfile: skip loading index if in multi-pack-index
midx: prevent duplicate packfile loads
midx: use midx in approximate_object_count
midx: use existing midx when writing new one
midx: use midx in abbreviation calculations
midx: read objects from multi-pack-index
config: create core.multiPackIndex setting
midx: write object offsets
midx: write object id fanout chunk
midx: write object ids in a chunk
midx: sort and deduplicate objects from packfiles
midx: read pack names into array
multi-pack-index: write pack names in chunk
multi-pack-index: read packfile list
packfile: generalize pack directory list
t5319: expand test data
multi-pack-index: load into memory
midx: write header information to lockfile
multi-pack-index: add 'write' verb
...
"git tbdiff" that lets us compare individual patches in two
iterations of a topic has been rewritten and made into a built-in
command.
* js/range-diff: (21 commits)
range-diff: use dim/bold cues to improve dual color mode
range-diff: make --dual-color the default mode
range-diff: left-pad patch numbers
completion: support `git range-diff`
range-diff: populate the man page
range-diff --dual-color: skip white-space warnings
range-diff: offer to dual-color the diffs
diff: add an internal option to dual-color diffs of diffs
color: add the meta color GIT_COLOR_REVERSE
range-diff: use color for the commit pairs
range-diff: add tests
range-diff: do not show "function names" in hunk headers
range-diff: adjust the output of the commit pairs
range-diff: suppress the diff headers
range-diff: indent the diffs just like tbdiff
range-diff: right-trim commit messages
range-diff: also show the diff between patches
range-diff: improve the order of the shown commits
range-diff: first rudimentary implementation
Introduce `range-diff` to compare iterations of a topic branch
...
A new configuration variable core.usereplacerefs has been added,
primarily to help server installations that want to ignore the
replace mechanism altogether.
* jk/core-use-replace-refs:
add core.usereplacerefs config option
check_replace_refs: rename to read_replace_refs
check_replace_refs: fix outdated comment
This command does not do a whole lot so far, apart from showing a usage
that is oddly similar to that of `git tbdiff`. And for a good reason:
the next commits will turn `range-branch` into a full-blown replacement
for `tbdiff`.
At this point, we ignore tbdiff's color options, as they will all be
implemented later using diff_options.
Since f318d739159 (generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to
command-list.h, 2018-05-10), every new command *requires* a man page to
build right away, so let's also add a blank man page, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit imitates the strategy that was used to convert the
difftool to a builtin. We start by renaming the shell script
`git-rebase.sh` to `git-legacy-rebase.sh` and introduce a
`builtin/rebase.c` that simply executes the shell script version,
unless the config setting `rebase.useBuiltin` is set to `true`.
The motivation behind this is to rewrite all the functionality of the
shell script version in the aforementioned `rebase.c`, one by one and
be able to conveniently test new features by configuring
`rebase.useBuiltin`.
In the original difftool conversion, if sane_execvp() that attempts to
run the legacy scripted version returned with non-negative status, the
command silently exited without doing anything with success, but
sane_execvp() should not return with non-negative status in the first
place, so we use die() to notice such an abnormal case.
We intentionally avoid reading the config directly to avoid
messing up the GIT_* environment variables when we need to fall back to
exec()ing the shell script. The test of builtin rebase can be done by
`git -c rebase.useBuiltin=true rebase ...`
Signed-off-by: Pratik Karki <predatoramigo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For a large tree, the index needs to hold many cache entries
allocated on heap. These cache entries are now allocated out of a
dedicated memory pool to amortize malloc(3) overhead.
* jm/cache-entry-from-mem-pool:
block alloc: add validations around cache_entry lifecyle
block alloc: allocate cache entries from mem_pool
mem-pool: fill out functionality
mem-pool: add life cycle management functions
mem-pool: only search head block for available space
block alloc: add lifecycle APIs for cache_entry structs
read-cache: teach make_cache_entry to take object_id
read-cache: teach refresh_cache_entry to take istate
This new 'git multi-pack-index' builtin will be the plumbing access
for writing, reading, and checking multi-pack-index files. The
initial implementation is a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was added as a NEEDSWORK in c3c36d7de2 (replace-object:
check_replace_refs is safe in multi repo environment, 2018-04-11),
waiting for a calmer period. Since doing so now doesn't conflict
with anything in 'pu', it seems as good a time as any.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository"
throughout the object access API continues.
* sb/object-store-grafts:
commit: allow lookup_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: allow prepare_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
shallow: migrate shallow information into the object parser
path.c: migrate global git_path_* to take a repository argument
cache: convert get_graft_file to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: convert read_graft_file to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: convert register_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: convert commit_graft_pos() to handle arbitrary repositories
shallow: add repository argument to is_repository_shallow
shallow: add repository argument to check_shallow_file_for_update
shallow: add repository argument to register_shallow
shallow: add repository argument to set_alternate_shallow_file
commit: add repository argument to lookup_commit_graft
commit: add repository argument to prepare_commit_graft
commit: add repository argument to read_graft_file
commit: add repository argument to register_commit_graft
commit: add repository argument to commit_graft_pos
object: move grafts to object parser
object-store: move object access functions to object-store.h
Add an option (controlled by an environment variable) perform extra
validations on mem_pool allocated cache entries. When set:
1) Invalidate cache_entry memory when discarding cache_entry.
2) When discarding index_state struct, verify that all cache_entries
were allocated from expected mem_pool.
3) When discarding mem_pools, invalidate mem_pool memory.
This should provide extra checks that mem_pools and their allocated
cache_entries are being used as expected.
Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller <jamill@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
bit more consolidated to allow more automation.
* nd/command-list:
completion: allow to customize the completable command list
completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
completion: reduce completable command list
completion: let git provide the completable command list
command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
Remove common-cmds.h
help: use command-list.h for common command list
generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
The git-show-index command is built as its own separate
program. There's really no good reason for this, and it
means we waste extra space on disk (and CPU time running the
linker). Let's fold it in to the main binary as a builtin.
The history here is actually a bit amusing. The program
itself is mostly self-contained, and doesn't even use our
normal pack index code. In a5031214c4 (slim down "git
show-index", 2010-01-21), we even stopped using xmalloc() so
that it could avoid libgit.a entirely. But then 040a655116
(cleanup: use internal memory allocation wrapper functions
everywhere, 2011-10-06) switched that back to xmalloc, which
later become ALLOC_ARRAY().
Making it a builtin should give us the best of both worlds:
no wasted space and no need to avoid the usual patterns.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git --no-pager cmd" did not have short-and-sweet single letter
option. Now it does.
* js/no-pager-shorthand:
git: add -P as a short option for --no-pager
By default we show porcelain, external commands and a couple others
that are also popular. If you are not happy with this list, you can
now customize it a new config variable.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By providing aliases via --list-cmds=, we could simplify command
collection code in the script. We only issue one git command. Before
this patch that is "git config", after it's "git --list-cmds=". In
"git help" completion case we actually reduce one "git" process (for
getting guides) but that call was added in this series so it does not
really count.
A couple of bash functions are removed because they are not needed
anymore. __git_compute_all_commands() and $__git_all_commands stay
because they are still needed for completing pager.* config and
without "alias" group, the result is still cacheable.
There is a slight (good) change in _git_help() with this patch: before
"git help <tab>" shows external commands (as in _not_ part of git) as
well as part of $__git_all_commands. We have finer control over
command listing now and can exclude that because we can't provide a
man page for external commands anyway.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows us to select any group of commands by a category defined
in command-list.txt. This is an internal/hidden option so we don't
have to be picky about the category name or worried about exposing too
much.
This will be used later by git-completion.bash to retrieve certain
command groups.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is part of the effort to break down and provide commands by
category in machine-readable form. This could be helpful later on when
completion script switches to use --list-cmds for selecting
completable commands. It would be much easier for the user to choose
to complete _all_ commands instead of the default selection by passing
different values to --list-cmds in git-completino.bash.
While at there, replace "git help -a" in git-completion.bash with
--list-cmds since it's better suited for this task.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of printing the command directly one by one, keep them in a
list and print at the end. This allows more modification before we
print out (e.g. sorting, removing duplicates or even excluding some
items).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even if these are hidden options, let's make them a bit more generic
since we're introducing more listing types shortly. The code is
structured to allow combining multiple listing types together because
we will soon add more types the 'builtins'.
'parseopt' remains separate because it has separate (SPC) to match
git-completion.bash needs and will not combine with others.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of set_alternate_shallow_file
to be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Precompute and store information necessary for ancestry traversal
in a separate file to optimize graph walking.
* ds/commit-graph:
commit-graph: implement "--append" option
commit-graph: build graph from starting commits
commit-graph: read only from specific pack-indexes
commit: integrate commit graph with commit parsing
commit-graph: close under reachability
commit-graph: add core.commitGraph setting
commit-graph: implement git commit-graph read
commit-graph: implement git-commit-graph write
commit-graph: implement write_commit_graph()
commit-graph: create git-commit-graph builtin
graph: add commit graph design document
commit-graph: add format document
csum-file: refactor finalize_hashfile() method
csum-file: rename hashclose() to finalize_hashfile()
A build-time option has been added to allow Git to be told to refer
to its associated files relative to the main binary, in the same
way that has been possible on Windows for quite some time, for
Linux, BSDs and Darwin.
* dj/runtime-prefix:
Makefile: quote $INSTLIBDIR when passing it to sed
Makefile: remove unused @@PERLLIBDIR@@ substitution variable
mingw/msvc: use the new-style RUNTIME_PREFIX helper
exec_cmd: provide a new-style RUNTIME_PREFIX helper for Windows
exec_cmd: RUNTIME_PREFIX on some POSIX systems
Makefile: add Perl runtime prefix support
Makefile: generate Perl header from template file
The beginning of the next-gen transfer protocol.
* bw/protocol-v2: (35 commits)
remote-curl: don't request v2 when pushing
remote-curl: implement stateless-connect command
http: eliminate "# service" line when using protocol v2
http: don't always add Git-Protocol header
http: allow providing extra headers for http requests
remote-curl: store the protocol version the server responded with
remote-curl: create copy of the service name
pkt-line: add packet_buf_write_len function
transport-helper: introduce stateless-connect
transport-helper: refactor process_connect_service
transport-helper: remove name parameter
connect: don't request v2 when pushing
connect: refactor git_connect to only get the protocol version once
fetch-pack: support shallow requests
fetch-pack: perform a fetch using v2
upload-pack: introduce fetch server command
push: pass ref prefixes when pushing
fetch: pass ref prefixes when fetching
ls-remote: pass ref prefixes when requesting a remote's refs
transport: convert transport_get_remote_refs to take a list of ref prefixes
...
It is possible to configure 'less', the pager, to use an alternate
screen to show the content, for example, by setting LESS=RS in the
environment. When it is closed in this configuration, it switches
back to the original screen, and all content is gone.
It is not uncommon to request that the output remains visible in
the terminal. For this, the option --no-pager can be used. But
it is a bit cumbersome to type, even when command completion is
available. Provide a short option, -P, to make the option more
easily accessible.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is more consistent with the project style. The majority of Git's
source files use dashes in preference to underscores in their file names.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Enable Git to resolve its own binary location using a variety of
OS-specific and generic methods, including:
- procfs via "/proc/self/exe" (Linux)
- _NSGetExecutablePath (Darwin)
- KERN_PROC_PATHNAME sysctl on BSDs.
- argv0, if absolute (all, including Windows).
This is used to enable RUNTIME_PREFIX support for non-Windows systems,
notably Linux and Darwin. When configured with RUNTIME_PREFIX, Git will
do a best-effort resolution of its executable path and automatically use
this as its "exec_path" for relative helper and data lookups, unless
explicitly overridden.
Small incidental formatting cleanup of "exec_cmd.c".
Signed-off-by: Dan Jacques <dnj@google.com>
Thanks-to: Robbie Iannucci <iannucci@google.com>
Thanks-to: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The mechanism to use parse-options API to automate the command line
completion continues to get extended and polished.
* nd/parseopt-completion-more:
completion: use __gitcomp_builtin in _git_cherry
completion: use __gitcomp_builtin in _git_ls_tree
completion: delete option-only completion commands
completion: add --option completion for most builtin commands
completion: factor out _git_xxx calling code
completion: mention the oldest version we need to support
git.c: add hidden option --list-parseopt-builtins
git.c: move cmd_struct declaration up
Teach git the 'commit-graph' builtin that will be used for writing and
reading packed graph files. The current implementation is mostly
empty, except for an '--object-dir' option.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is another step to help automate git-completion.bash. This option
gives a list of all builtin commands that do use parse_options(),
which supports another hidden option --git-completion-helper. The
output is prepared for easy consumption by git-completion.bash and
separates items by spaces instead of \n
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a later patch we need access to one of these command option
constants near the top of this file. Move this block up so we will be
able to access the command options.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a way similar to how "git tag" learned to honor the pager
setting only in the list mode, "git config" learned to ignore the
pager setting when it is used for setting values (i.e. when the
purpose of the operation is not to "show").
* ma/config-page-only-in-list-mode:
config: change default of `pager.config` to "on"
config: respect `pager.config` in list/get-mode only
t7006: add tests for how git config paginates
Introduce git-serve, the base server for protocol version 2.
Protocol version 2 is intended to be a replacement for Git's current
wire protocol. The intention is that it will be a simpler, less
wasteful protocol which can evolve over time.
Protocol version 2 improves upon version 1 by eliminating the initial
ref advertisement. In its place a server will export a list of
capabilities and commands which it supports in a capability
advertisement. A client can then request that a particular command be
executed by providing a number of capabilities and command specific
parameters. At the completion of a command, a client can request that
another command be executed or can terminate the connection by sending a
flush packet.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to allow for code sharing with the server-side of fetch in
protocol-v2 convert upload-pack to be a builtin.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to de121ffe5 (tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only,
2017-08-02), use the DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG-mechanism to only respect
`pager.config` when we are listing or "get"ing config.
We have several getters and some are guaranteed to give at most one line
of output. Paging all getters including those could be convenient from a
documentation point-of-view. The downside would be that a misconfigured
or not so modern pager might wait for user interaction before
terminating. Let's instead respect the config for precisely those
getters which may produce more than one line of output.
`--get-urlmatch` may or may not produce multiple lines of output,
depending on the exact usage. Let's not try to recognize the two modes,
but instead make `--get-urlmatch` always respect the config. Analyzing
the detailed usage might be trivial enough here, but could establish a
precedent that we will never be able to enforce throughout the codebase
and that will just open a can of worms.
This fixes the failing test added in the previous commit. Also adapt the
test for whether `git config foo.bar bar` and `git config --get foo.bar`
respects `pager.config`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Small changes in messages to fit the style and typography of rest.
Reuse already translated messages if possible.
Do not translate messages aimed at developers of git.
Fix unit tests depending on the original string.
Use `test_i18ngrep` for tests with translatable strings.
Change and verify rest of tests via `make GETTEXT_POISON=1 test`.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shopov <ash@kambanaria.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch --list" learned to show its output through the pager by
default when the output is going to a terminal, which is controlled
by the pager.branch configuration variable. This is similar to a
recent change to "git tag --list".
* ma/branch-list-paginate:
branch: change default of `pager.branch` to "on"
branch: respect `pager.branch` in list-mode only
t7006: add tests for how git branch paginates
Similar to de121ffe5 (tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only,
2017-08-02), use the DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG-mechanism to only respect
`pager.branch` when we are listing branches.
We have two possibilities of generalizing what that earlier commit made
to `git tag`. One is to interpret, e.g., --set-upstream-to as "it does
not use an editor, so we should page". Another, the one taken by this
commit, is to say "it does not list, so let's not page". That is in line
with the approach of the series on `pager.tag` and in particular the
wording in Documentation/git-tag.txt, which this commit reuses for
git-branch.txt.
This fixes the failing test added in the previous commit. Also adapt the
test for whether `git branch --set-upstream-to` respects `pager.branch`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic
update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later
operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks"
option can be passed to Git to disable them.
* jk/no-optional-locks:
git: add --no-optional-locks option
Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run
commands like "git status" in the background to keep track
of the state of the repository. Some of these commands may
refresh the index and write out the result in an
opportunistic way: if they can get the index lock, then they
update the on-disk index with any updates they find. And if
not, then their in-core refresh is lost and just has to be
recomputed by the next caller.
But taking the index lock may conflict with other operations
in the repository. Especially ones that the user is doing
themselves, which _aren't_ opportunistic. In other words,
"git status" knows how to back off when somebody else is
holding the lock, but other commands don't know that status
would be happy to drop the lock if somebody else wanted it.
There are a couple possible solutions:
1. Have some kind of "pseudo-lock" that allows other
commands to tell status that they want the lock.
This is likely to be complicated and error-prone to
implement (and maybe even impossible with just
dotlocks to work from, as it requires some
inter-process communication).
2. Avoid background runs of commands like "git status"
that want to do opportunistic updates, preferring
instead plumbing like diff-files, etc.
This is awkward for a couple of reasons. One is that
"status --porcelain" reports a lot more about the
repository state than is available from individual
plumbing commands. And two is that we actually _do_
want to see the refreshed index. We just don't want to
take a lock or write out the result. Whereas commands
like diff-files expect us to refresh the index
separately and write it to disk so that they can depend
on the result. But that write is exactly what we're
trying to avoid.
3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index.
This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any
work done in refreshing the index for such a call is
lost when the process exits. So a background process
may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times
until the user runs a command that does an index
refresh themselves.
This patch implements the option 3. The idea (and the test)
is largely stolen from a Git for Windows patch by Johannes
Schindelin, 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not* to lock the
index and update it, 2016-08-12). The twist here is that
instead of making this an option to "git status", it becomes
a "git" option and matching environment variable.
The reason there is two-fold:
1. An environment variable is carried through to
sub-processes. And whether an invocation is a
background process or not should apply to the whole
process tree. So you could do "git --no-optional-locks
foo", and if "foo" is a script or alias that calls
"status", you'll still get the effect.
2. There may be other programs that want the same
treatment.
I've punted here on finding more callers to convert,
since "status" is the obvious one to call as a repeated
background job. But "git diff"'s opportunistic refresh
of the index may be a good candidate.
The test is taken from 67e5ce7f63, and it's worth repeating
Johannes's explanation:
Note that the regression test added in this commit does
not *really* verify that no index.lock file was written;
that test is not possible in a portable way. Instead, we
verify that .git/index is rewritten *only* when `git
status` is run without `--no-optional-locks`.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git grep --recurse-submodules" has been reworked to give a more
consistent output across submodule boundary (and do its thing
without having to fork a separate process).
* bw/grep-recurse-submodules:
grep: recurse in-process using 'struct repository'
submodule: merge repo_read_gitmodules and gitmodules_config
submodule: check for unmerged .gitmodules outside of config parsing
submodule: check for unstaged .gitmodules outside of config parsing
submodule: remove fetch.recursesubmodules from submodule-config parsing
submodule: remove submodule.fetchjobs from submodule-config parsing
config: add config_from_gitmodules
cache.h: add GITMODULES_FILE macro
repository: have the_repository use the_index
repo_read_index: don't discard the index
When running, e.g., `git -c alias.bar=foo bar`, we expand the alias and
execute `git-foo` as a dashed external. This is true even if git foo is
a builtin. That is on purpose, and is motivated in a comment which was
added in commit 441981bc ("git: simplify environment save/restore
logic", 2016-01-26).
Shortly before we launch a dashed external, and unless we have already
found out whether we should use a pager, we check `pager.foo`. This was
added in commit 92058e4d ("support pager.* for external commands",
2011-08-18). If the dashed external is a builtin, this does not match
that commit's intention and is arguably wrong, since it would be cleaner
if we let the "dashed external builtin" handle `pager.foo`.
This has not mattered in practice, but a recent patch taught `git-tag`
to ignore `pager.tag` under certain circumstances. But, when started
using an alias, it doesn't get the chance to do so, as outlined above.
That recent patch added a test to document this breakage.
Do not check `pager.foo` before launching a builtin as a dashed
external, i.e., if we recognize the name of the external as a builtin.
Change the test to use `test_expect_success`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using, e.g., `git -c pager.tag tag -a new-tag` results in errors such as
"Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal" and a garbled terminal.
Someone who makes use of both `git tag -a` and `git tag -l` will
probably not set `pager.tag`, so that `git tag -a` will actually work,
at the cost of not paging output of `git tag -l`.
Use the mechanisms introduced in two earlier patches to ignore
`pager.tag` in git.c and let the `git tag` builtin handle it on its own.
Only respect `pager.tag` when running in list-mode.
There is a window between where the pager is started before and after
this patch. This means that early errors can behave slightly different
before and after this patch. Since operation-parsing has to happen
inside this window, this can be seen with `git -c pager.tag="echo pager
is used" tag -l --unknown-option`. This change in paging-behavior should
be acceptable since it only affects erroneous usages.
Update the documentation and update tests.
If an alias is used to run `git tag -a`, then `pager.tag` will still be
respected. Document this known breakage. It will be fixed in a later
commit. Add a similar test for `-l`, which works.
Noticed-by: Anatoly Borodin <anatoly.borodin@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous patch introduced a way for builtins to declare that they
will take responsibility for handling the `pager.foo`-config item. (See
the commit message of that patch for why that could be useful.)
Provide setup_auto_pager(), which builtins can call in order to handle
`pager.<cmd>`, including possibly starting the pager. Make this function
don't do anything if a pager has already been started, as indicated by
use_pager or pager_in_use().
Whenever this function is called from a builtin, git.c will already have
called commit_pager_choice(). Since commit_pager_choice() treats the
special value -1 as "punt" or "not yet decided", it is not a problem
that we might end up calling commit_pager_choice() once in git.c and
once (or more) in the builtin. Make the new function use -1 in the same
way and document it as "punt".
Don't add any users of setup_auto_pager just yet, one will follow in
a later patch.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before launching a builtin git foo and unless mechanisms with precedence
are in use, we check for and handle the `pager.foo` config. This is done
without considering exactly how git foo is being used, and indeed, git.c
cannot (and should not) know what the arguments to git foo are supposed
to achieve.
In practice this means that, e.g., `git -c pager.tag tag -a new-tag`
results in errors such as "Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal"
and a garbled terminal. Someone who makes use of both `git tag -a` and
`git tag -l` will probably not set `pager.tag`, so that `git tag -a`
will actually work, at the cost of not paging output of `git tag -l`.
To allow individual builtins to make more informed decisions about when
to respect `pager.foo`, introduce a flag DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG. If the flag
is set, do not check `pager.foo`.
Do not check for DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG in `execv_dashed_external()`. That
call site is arguably wrong, although in a way that is not yet visible,
and will be changed in a slightly different direction in a later patch.
Don't add any users of DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG just yet, one will follow in a
later patch.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert grep to use 'struct repository' which enables recursing into
submodules to be handled in-process.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert ls-files to use a repository struct and recurse submodules
inprocess.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* bw/ls-files-sans-the-index:
ls-files: factor out tag calculation
ls-files: factor out debug info into a function
ls-files: convert show_files to take an index
ls-files: convert show_ce_entry to take an index
ls-files: convert prune_cache to take an index
ls-files: convert ce_excluded to take an index
ls-files: convert show_ru_info to take an index
ls-files: convert show_other_files to take an index
ls-files: convert show_killed_files to take an index
ls-files: convert write_eolinfo to take an index
ls-files: convert overlay_tree_on_cache to take an index
tree: convert read_tree to take an index parameter
convert: convert renormalize_buffer to take an index
convert: convert convert_to_git to take an index
convert: convert convert_to_git_filter_fd to take an index
convert: convert crlf_to_git to take an index
convert: convert get_cached_convert_stats_ascii to take an index
* bw/config-h:
config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir
config: respect commondir
setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir
config: don't include config.h by default
config: remove git_config_iter
config: create config.h
alias: use the early config machinery to expand aliases
t7006: demonstrate a problem with aliases in subdirectories
t1308: relax the test verifying that empty alias values are disallowed
help: use early config when autocorrecting aliases
config: report correct line number upon error
discover_git_directory(): avoid setting invalid git_dir
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of discovering the .git/ directory, reading the config and then
trying to painstakingly reset all the global state if we did not find a
matching alias, let's use the early config machinery instead.
It may look like unnecessary work to discover the .git/ directory in the
early config machinery and then call setup_git_directory_gently() in the
case of a shell alias, repeating the very same discovery *again*.
However, we have to do this as the early config machinery takes pains
*not* to touch any global state, while shell aliases expect a possibly
changed working directory and at least the GIT_PREFIX and GIT_DIR
variables to be set.
This change also fixes a known issue where Git tried to read the pager
config from an incorrect path in a subdirectory of a Git worktree if an
alias expanded to a shell command.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can be useful in the test suite to be able to iterate
over the list of builtins. We could do this with some
Makefile magic. But since the authoritative list is in the
commands array inside git.c, and since this could also be
handy for debugging, let's add a hidden command-line option
to dump that list.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few commands that recently learned the "--recurse-submodule"
option misbehaved when started from a subdirectory of the
superproject.
* bw/recurse-submodules-relative-fix:
ls-files: fix bug when recursing with relative pathspec
ls-files: fix typo in variable name
grep: fix bug when recursing with relative pathspec
setup: allow for prefix to be passed to git commands
grep: fix help text typo
In a future patch child processes which act on submodules need a little
more context about the original command that was invoked. This patch
teaches git to use the prefix stored in `GIT_INTERNAL_TOPLEVEL_PREFIX`
instead of the prefix that was potentally found during the git directory
setup process.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git's interactive rebase is still implemented as a shell script, despite
its complexity. This implies that it suffers from the portability point
of view, from lack of expressibility, and of course also from
performance. The latter issue is particularly serious on Windows, where
we pay a hefty price for relying so much on POSIX.
Unfortunately, being such a huge shell script also means that we missed
the train when it would have been relatively easy to port it to C, and
instead piled feature upon feature onto that poor script that originally
never intended to be more than a slightly pimped cherry-pick in a loop.
To open the road toward better performance (in addition to all the other
benefits of C over shell scripts), let's just start *somewhere*.
The approach taken here is to add a builtin helper that at first intends
to take care of the parts of the interactive rebase that are most
affected by the performance penalties mentioned above.
In particular, after we spent all those efforts on preparing the sequencer
to process rebase -i's git-rebase-todo scripts, we implement the `git
rebase -i --continue` functionality as a new builtin, git-rebase--helper.
Once that is in place, we can work gradually on tackling the rest of the
technical debt.
Note that the rebase--helper needs to learn about the transient
--ff/--no-ff options of git-rebase, as the corresponding flag is not
persisted to, and re-read from, the state directory.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git read-tree" and its underlying unpack_trees() machinery learned
to report problematic paths prefixed with the --super-prefix option.
* sb/unpack-trees-super-prefix:
unpack-trees: support super-prefix option
t1001: modernize style
t1000: modernize style
read-tree: use OPT_BOOL instead of OPT_SET_INT
Rewrite a scripted porcelain "git difftool" in C.
* js/difftool-builtin:
difftool: hack around -Wzero-length-format warning
difftool: retire the scripted version
difftool: implement the functionality in the builtin
difftool: add a skeleton for the upcoming builtin
In the future we want to support working tree operations within submodules,
e.g. "git checkout --recurse-submodules", which will update the submodule
to the commit as recorded in its superproject. In the submodule the
unpack-tree operation is carried out as usual, but the reporting to the
user needs to prefix any path with the superproject. The mechanism for
this is the super-prefix. (see 74866d757, git: make super-prefix option)
Add support for the super-prefix option for commands that unpack trees
by wrapping any path output in unpacking trees in the newly introduced
super_prefixed function. This new function prefixes any path with the
super-prefix if there is one. Assuming the submodule case doesn't happen
in the majority of the cases, we'd want to have a fast behavior for no
super prefix, i.e. no reallocation/copying, but just returning path.
Another aspect of introducing the `super_prefixed` function is to consider
who owns the memory and if this is the right place where the path gets
modified. As the super prefix ought to change the output behavior only and
not the actual unpack tree part, it is fine to be that late in the line.
As we get passed in 'const char *path', we cannot change the path itself,
which means in case of a super prefix we have to copy over the path.
We need two static buffers in that function as the error messages
contain at most two paths.
For testing purposes enable it in read-tree, which has no output
of paths other than an unpack-trees.c. These are all converted in
this patch.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It served its purpose, but now we have a builtin difftool. Time for the
Perl script to enjoy Florida.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and
took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree
structure. This has been fixed.
* jk/execv-dashed-external:
execv_dashed_external: wait for child on signal death
execv_dashed_external: stop exiting with negative code
execv_dashed_external: use child_process struct
"git grep" has been taught to optionally recurse into submodules.
* bw/grep-recurse-submodules:
grep: search history of moved submodules
grep: enable recurse-submodules to work on <tree> objects
grep: optionally recurse into submodules
grep: add submodules as a grep source type
submodules: load gitmodules file from commit sha1
submodules: add helper to determine if a submodule is initialized
submodules: add helper to determine if a submodule is populated
real_path: canonicalize directory separators in root parts
real_path: have callers use real_pathdup and strbuf_realpath
real_path: create real_pathdup
real_path: convert real_path_internal to strbuf_realpath
real_path: resolve symlinks by hand
This adds a builtin difftool that still falls back to the legacy Perl
version, which has been renamed to `legacy-difftool`.
The idea is that the new, experimental, builtin difftool immediately hands
off to the legacy difftool for now, unless the config variable
difftool.useBuiltin is set to true.
This feature flag will be used in the upcoming Git for Windows v2.11.0
release, to allow early testers to opt-in to use the builtin difftool and
flesh out any bugs.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it
easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a
superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former
that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added.
* sb/submodule-embed-gitdir:
worktree: initialize return value for submodule_uses_worktrees
submodule: add absorb-git-dir function
move connect_work_tree_and_git_dir to dir.h
worktree: check if a submodule uses worktrees
test-lib-functions.sh: teach test_commit -C <dir>
submodule helper: support super prefix
submodule: use absolute path for computing relative path connecting
When you hit ^C to interrupt a git command going to a pager,
this usually leaves the pager running. But when a dashed
external is in use, the pager ends up in a funny state and
quits (but only after eating one more character from the
terminal!). This fixes it.
Explaining the reason will require a little background.
When git runs a pager, it's important for the git process to
hang around and wait for the pager to finish, even though it
has no more data to feed it. This is because git spawns the
pager as a child, and thus the git process is the session
leader on the terminal. After it dies, the pager will finish
its current read from the terminal (eating the one
character), and then get EIO trying to read again.
When you hit ^C, that sends SIGINT to git and to the pager,
and it's a similar situation. The pager ignores it, but the
git process needs to hang around until the pager is done. We
addressed that long ago in a3da882120 (pager: do
wait_for_pager on signal death, 2009-01-22).
But when you have a dashed external (or an alias pointing to
a builtin, which will re-exec git for the builtin), there's
an extra process in the mix. For instance, running:
$ git -c alias.l=log l
will end up with a process tree like:
git (parent)
\
git-log (child)
\
less (pager)
If you hit ^C, SIGINT goes to all of them. The pager ignores
it, and the child git process will end up in wait_for_pager().
But the parent git process will die, and the usual EIO
trouble happens.
So we really want the parent git process to wait_for_pager(),
but of course it doesn't know anything about the pager at
all, since it was started by the child. However, we can
have it wait on the git-log child, which in turn is waiting
on the pager. And that's what this patch does.
There are a few design decisions here worth explaining:
1. The new feature is attached to run-command's
clean_on_exit feature. Partly this is convenience,
since that feature already has a signal handler that
deals with child cleanup.
But it's also a meaningful connection. The main reason
that dashed externals use clean_on_exit is to bind the
two processes together. If somebody kills the parent
with a signal, we propagate that to the child (in this
instance with SIGINT, we do propagate but it doesn't
matter because the original signal went to the whole
process group). Likewise, we do not want the parent
to go away until the child has done so.
In a traditional Unix world, we'd probably accomplish
this binding by just having the parent execve() the
child directly. But since that doesn't work on Windows,
everything goes through run_command's more spawn-like
interface.
2. We do _not_ automatically waitpid() on any
clean_on_exit children. For dashed externals this makes
sense; we know that the parent is doing nothing but
waiting for the child to exit anyway. But with other
children, it's possible that the child, after getting
the signal, could be waiting on the parent to do
something (like closing a descriptor). If we were to
wait on such a child, we'd end up in a deadlock. So
this errs on the side of caution, and lets callers
enable the feature explicitly.
3. When we send children the cleanup signal, we send all
the signals first, before waiting on any children. This
is to avoid the case where one child might be waiting
on another one to exit, causing a deadlock. We inform
all of them that it's time to die before reaping any.
In practice, there is only ever one dashed external run
from a given process, so this doesn't matter much now.
But it future-proofs us if other callers start using
the wait_after_clean mechanism.
There's no automated test here, because it would end up racy
and unportable. But it's easy to reproduce the situation by
running the log command given above and hitting ^C.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we try to exec a git sub-command, we pass along the
status code from run_command(). But that may return -1 if we
ran into an error with pipe() or execve(). This tends to
work (and end up as 255 due to twos-complement wraparound
and truncation), but in general it's probably a good idea to
avoid negative exit codes for portability.
We can easily translate to the normal generic "128" code we
get when syscalls cause us to die.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we run a dashed external, we use the one-liner
run_command_v_opt() to do so. Let's switch to using a
child_process struct, which has two advantages:
1. We can drop all of the allocation and cleanup code for
building our custom argv array, and just rely on the
builtin argv_array (at the minor cost of doing a few
extra mallocs).
2. We have access to the complete range of child_process
options, not just the ones that the "_opt()" form can
forward.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow grep to recognize submodules and recursively search for patterns in
each submodule. This is done by forking off a process to recursively
call grep on each submodule. The top level --super-prefix option is
used to pass a path to the submodule which can in turn be used to
prepend to output or in pathspec matching logic.
Recursion only occurs for submodules which have been initialized and
checked out by the parent project. If a submodule hasn't been
initialized and checked out it is simply skipped.
In order to support the existing multi-threading infrastructure in grep,
output from each child process is captured in a strbuf so that it can be
later printed to the console in an ordered fashion.
To limit the number of theads that are created, each child process has
half the number of threads as its parents (minimum of 1), otherwise we
potentailly have a fork-bomb.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Just like main commands in Git, the submodule helper needs
access to the superproject prefix. Enable this in the git.c
but have its own fuse in the helper code by having a flag to
turn on the super prefix.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 650c44925 (common-main: call git_extract_argv0_path(),
2016-07-01), the argv[0] that is seen in cmd_main() of
individual programs is always the basename of the
executable, as common-main strips off the full path. This
can produce confusing results for git-daemon, which wants to
re-exec itself.
For instance, if the program was originally run as
"/usr/lib/git/git-daemon", it will try just re-execing
"git-daemon", which will find the first instance in $PATH.
If git's exec-path has not been prepended to $PATH, we may
find the git-daemon from a different version (or no
git-daemon at all).
Normally this isn't a problem. Git commands are run as "git
daemon", the git wrapper puts the exec-path at the front of
$PATH, and argv[0] is already "daemon" anyway. But running
git-daemon via its full exec-path, while not really a
recommended method, did work prior to 650c44925. Let's make
it work again.
The real goal of 650c44925 was not to munge argv[0], but to
reliably set the argv0_path global. The only reason it
munges at all is that one caller, the git.c wrapper,
piggy-backed on that computation to find the command
basename. Instead, let's leave argv[0] untouched in
common-main, and have git.c do its own basename computation.
While we're at it, let's drop the return value from
git_extract_argv0_path(). It was only ever used in this one
callsite, and its dual purposes is what led to this
confusion in the first place.
Note that by changing the interface, the compiler can
confirm for us that there are no other callers storing the
return value. But the compiler can't tell us whether any of
the cmd_main() functions (besides git.c) were relying on the
basename munging. However, we can observe that prior to
650c44925, no other cmd_main() functions did that munging,
and no new cmd_main() functions have been introduced since
then. So we can't be regressing any of those cases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured
repos", 2016-09-12), we do not read from ".git/config" unless we
know we are in a repository. "git archive" however didn't do the
repository discovery and instead relied on the old behaviour.
Teach the command to run a "gentle" version of repository discovery
so that local configuration variables are honoured.
[jc: stole tests from peff]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured
repos", 2016-09-12), we do not read from ".git/config" unless we
know we are in a repository. "git mailinfo" however didn't do the
repository discovery and instead relied on the old behaviour. This
was mostly OK because it was merely run as a helper program by other
porcelain scripts that first chdir's up to the root of the working
tree.
Teach the command to run a "gentle" version of repository discovery
so that local configuration variables like mailinfo.scissors are
honoured.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git ls-files" learned "--recurse-submodules" option that can be
used to get a listing of tracked files across submodules (i.e. this
only works with "--cached" option, not for listing untracked or
ignored files). This would be a useful tool to sit on the upstream
side of a pipe that is read with xargs to work on all working tree
files from the top-level superproject.
* bw/ls-files-recurse-submodules:
ls-files: add pathspec matching for submodules
ls-files: pass through safe options for --recurse-submodules
ls-files: optionally recurse into submodules
git: make super-prefix option
d64ea0f83b ("git-compat-util: add xstrdup_or_null helper",
2015-01-12) added a handy wrapper that allows us to get a duplicate
of a string or NULL if the original is NULL, but a handful of
codepath predate its introduction or just weren't aware of it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow ls-files to recognize submodules in order to retrieve a list of
files from a repository's submodules. This is done by forking off a
process to recursively call ls-files on all submodules. Use top-level
--super-prefix option to pass a path to the submodule which it can
use to prepend to output or pathspec matching logic.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a super-prefix environment variable 'GIT_INTERNAL_SUPER_PREFIX'
which can be used to specify a path from above a repository down to its
root. When such a super-prefix is specified, the paths reported by Git
are prefixed with it to make them relative to that directory "above".
The paths given by the user on the command line
(e.g. "git subcmd --output-file=path/to/a/file" and pathspecs) are taken
relative to the directory "above" to match.
The immediate use of this option is by commands which have a
--recurse-submodule option in order to give context to submodules about
how they were invoked. This option is currently only allowed for
builtins which support a super-prefix.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were numerous corner cases in which the configuration files
are read and used or not read at all depending on the directory a
Git command was run, leading to inconsistent behaviour. The code
to set-up repository access at the beginning of a Git process has
been updated to fix them.
* jk/setup-sequence-update:
t1007: factor out repeated setup
init: reset cached config when entering new repo
init: expand comments explaining config trickery
config: only read .git/config from configured repos
test-config: setup git directory
t1302: use "git -C"
pager: handle early config
pager: use callbacks instead of configset
pager: make pager_program a file-local static
pager: stop loading git_default_config()
pager: remove obsolete comment
diff: always try to set up the repository
diff: handle --no-index prefixes consistently
diff: skip implicit no-index check when given --no-index
patch-id: use RUN_SETUP_GENTLY
hash-object: always try to set up the git repository
Patch-id does not require a repository because it is just
processing the incoming diff on stdin, but it may look at
git config for keys like patchid.stable.
Even though we do not setup_git_directory(), this works from
the top-level of a repository because we blindly look at
".git/config" in this case. But as the included test
demonstrates, it does not work from a subdirectory.
We can fix it by using RUN_SETUP_GENTLY. We do not take any
filenames from the user on the command line, so there's no
need to adjust them via prefix_filename().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git nosuchcommand --help" said "No manual entry for gitnosuchcommand",
which was not intuitive, given that "git nosuchcommand" said "git:
'nosuchcommand' is not a git command".
* rt/help-unknown:
help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands
help: introduce option --exclude-guides
If option --help is passed to a Git command, we try to open
the man page of that command. However, we do it for both commands
and concepts. Make sure it is an actual command.
This makes "git <concept> --help" not working anymore, while
"git help <concept>" still works.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should be part of every program, as otherwise users do
not get translated error messages. However, some external
commands forgot to do so (e.g., git-credential-store). This
fixes them, and eliminates the repeated code in programs
that did remember to use it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is another safety/sanity setup that should be in force
everywhere, but which we only applied in git.c. This did
catch most cases, since even external commands are typically
run via "git ..." (and the restoration applies to
sub-processes, too). But there were cases we missed, such as
somebody calling git-upload-pack directly via ssh, or
scripts which use dashed external commands directly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is setup that should be done in every program for
safety, but we never got around to adding it everywhere (so
builtins benefited from the call in git.c, but any external
commands did not). Putting it in the common main() gives us
this safety everywhere.
Note that the case in daemon.c is a little funny. We wait
until we know whether we want to daemonize, and then either:
- call daemonize(), which will close stdio and reopen it to
/dev/null under the hood
- sanitize_stdfds(), to fix up any odd cases
But that is way too late; the point of sanitizing is to give
us reliable descriptors on 0/1/2, and we will already have
executed code, possibly called die(), etc. The sanitizing
should be the very first thing that happens.
With this patch, git-daemon will sanitize first, and can
remove the call in the non-daemonize case. It does mean that
daemonize() may just end up closing the descriptors we
opened, but that's not a big deal (it's not wrong to do so,
nor is it really less optimal than the case where our parent
process redirected us from /dev/null ahead of time).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Every program which links against libgit.a must call this
function, or risk hitting an assert() in system_path() that
checks whether we have configured argv0_path (though only
when RUNTIME_PREFIX is defined, so essentially only on
Windows).
Looking at the diff, you can see that putting it into the
common main() saves us having to do it individually in each
of the external commands. But what you can't see are the
cases where we _should_ have been doing so, but weren't
(e.g., git-credential-store, and all of the t/helper test
programs).
This has been an accident-waiting-to-happen for a long time,
but wasn't triggered until recently because it involves one
of those programs actually calling system_path(). That
happened with git-credential-store in v2.8.0 with ae5f677
(lazily load core.sharedrepository, 2016-03-11). The
program:
- takes a lock file, which...
- opens a tempfile, which...
- calls adjust_shared_perm to fix permissions, which...
- lazy-loads the config (as of ae5f677), which...
- calls system_path() to find the location of
/etc/gitconfig
On systems with RUNTIME_PREFIX, this means credential-store
reliably hits that assert() and cannot be used.
We never noticed in the test suite, because we set
GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM there, which skips the system_path()
lookup entirely. But if we were to tweak git_config() to
find /etc/gitconfig even when we aren't going to open it,
then the test suite shows multiple failures (for
credential-store, and for some other test helpers). I didn't
include that tweak here because it's way too specific to
this particular call to be worth carrying around what is
essentially dead code.
The implementation is fairly straightforward, with one
exception: there is exactly one caller (git.c) that actually
cares about the result of the function, and not the
side-effect of setting up argv0_path. We can accommodate
that by simply replacing the value of argv[0] in the array
we hand down to cmd_main().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are certain startup tasks that we expect every git
process to do. In some cases this is just to improve the
quality of the program (e.g., setting up gettext()). In
others it is a requirement for using certain functions in
libgit.a (e.g., system_path() expects that you have called
git_extract_argv0_path()).
Most commands are builtins and are covered by the git.c
version of main(). However, there are still a few external
commands that use their own main(). Each of these has to
remember to include the correct startup sequence, and we are
not always consistent.
Rather than just fix the inconsistencies, let's make this
harder to get wrong by providing a common main() that can
run this standard startup.
We basically have two options to do this:
- the compat/mingw.h file already does something like this by
adding a #define that replaces the definition of main with a
wrapper that calls mingw_startup().
The upside is that the code in each program doesn't need
to be changed at all; it's rewritten on the fly by the
preprocessor.
The downside is that it may make debugging of the startup
sequence a bit more confusing, as the preprocessor is
quietly inserting new code.
- the builtin functions are all of the form cmd_foo(),
and git.c's main() calls them.
This is much more explicit, which may make things more
obvious to somebody reading the code. It's also more
flexible (because of course we have to figure out _which_
cmd_foo() to call).
The downside is that each of the builtins must define
cmd_foo(), instead of just main().
This patch chooses the latter option, preferring the more
explicit approach, even though it is more invasive. We
introduce a new file common-main.c, with the "real" main. It
expects to call cmd_main() from whatever other objects it is
linked against.
We link common-main.o against anything that links against
libgit.a, since we know that such programs will need to do
this setup. Note that common-main.o can't actually go inside
libgit.a, as the linker would not pick up its main()
function automatically (it has no callers).
The rest of the patch is just adjusting all of the various
external programs (mostly in t/helper) to use cmd_main().
I've provided a global declaration for cmd_main(), which
means that all of the programs also need to match its
signature. In particular, many functions need to switch to
"const char **" instead of "char **" for argv. This effect
ripples out to a few other variables and functions, as well.
This makes the patch even more invasive, but the end result
is much better. We should be treating argv strings as const
anyway, and now all programs conform to the same signature
(which also matches the way builtins are defined).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a60645f (setup: remember whether repository was
found, 2010-08-05) introduced the startup_info structure,
which records some parts of the setup_git_directory()
process (notably, whether we actually found a repository or
not).
One of the uses of this data is for functions to behave
appropriately based on whether we are in a repo. But the
startup_info struct is just a pointer to storage provided by
the main program, and the only program that sets it up is
the git.c wrapper. Thus builtins have access to
startup_info, but externally linked programs do not.
Worse, library code which is accessible from both has to be
careful about accessing startup_info. This can be used to
trigger a die("BUG") via get_sha1():
$ git fast-import <<-\EOF
tag foo
from HEAD:./whatever
EOF
fatal: BUG: startup_info struct is not initialized.
Obviously that's fairly nonsensical input to feed to
fast-import, but we should never hit a die("BUG"). And there
may be other ways to trigger it if other non-builtins
resolve sha1s.
So let's point the storage for startup_info to a static
variable in setup.c, making it available to all users of the
library code. We _could_ turn startup_info into a regular
extern struct, but doing so would mean tweaking all of the
existing use sites. So let's leave the pointer indirection
in place. We can, however, drop any checks for NULL, as
they will always be false (and likewise, we can drop the
test covering this case, which was a rather artificial
situation using one of the test-* programs).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().
* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
convert manual allocations to argv_array
argv-array: add detach function
add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
...
There are many manual argv allocations that predate the
argv_array API. Switching to that API brings a few
advantages:
1. We no longer have to manually compute the correct final
array size (so it's one less thing we can screw up).
2. In many cases we had to make a separate pass to count,
then allocate, then fill in the array. Now we can do it
in one pass, making the code shorter and easier to
follow.
3. argv_array handles memory ownership for us, making it
more obvious when things should be free()d and and when
not.
Most of these cases are pretty straightforward. In some, we
switch from "run_command_v" to "run_command" which lets us
directly use the argv_array embedded in "struct
child_process".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The handle_builtin() starts from stripping of command extension if
STRIP_EXTENSION is enabled. Actually STRIP_EXTENSION does not used
anywhere else.
This patch introduces strip_extension() helper to strip STRIP_EXTENSION
extension from argv[0] with the strip_suffix() instead of manually
stripping.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The automatic typo correction applied to an alias was broken
with a recent change already in 'master'.
* nd/clear-gitenv-upon-use-of-alias:
restore_env(): free the saved environment variable once we are done
git: simplify environment save/restore logic
git: protect against unbalanced calls to {save,restore}_env()
git: remove an early return from save_env_before_alias()
