This is meant for the end user, who cannot be expected to edit
.git/config by hand.
Example:
git-config-set core.filemode true
will set filemode in the section [core] to true,
git-config-set --unset core.filemode
will remove the entry (failing if it is not there), and
git-config-set --unset diff.twohead ^recar
will remove the unique entry whose value matches the regex "^recar"
(failing if there is no unique such entry).
It is just a light wrapper around git_config_set() and
git_config_set_multivar().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The decision about whether to build http-push or not belongs in the
Makefile. This follows Junio's suggestion to determine whether curl
is new enough to support http-push.
Signed-off-by: Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Move shared HTTP request functionality out of http-fetch and http-push,
and replace the two fwrite_buffer/fwrite_buffer_dynamic functions with
one fwrite_buffer function that does dynamic buffering. Use slot
callbacks to process responses to fetch object transfer requests and
push transfer requests, and put all of http-push into an #ifdef check
for curl multi support.
Signed-off-by: Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When HPA added Cygwin target, it ran just fine without NO_MMAP for him,
but recently we are getting reports that for some people things break
without it. For now, just suggest it in the Makefile without actually
updating the default.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch provides a C implementation of the 'git' program and
introduces support for putting the git-* commands in a directory
of their own. It also saves some time on executing those commands
in a tight loop and it prints the currently available git commands
in a nicely formatted list.
The location of the GIT_EXEC_PATH (name discussion's closed, thank gods)
can be obtained by running
git --exec-path
which will hopefully give porcelainistas ample time to adapt their
heavy-duty loops to call the core programs directly and thus save
the extra fork() / execve() overhead, although that's not really
necessary any more.
The --exec-path value is prepended to $PATH, so the git-* programs
should Just Work without ever requiring any changes to how they call
other programs in the suite.
Some timing values for 10000 invocations of git-var >&/dev/null:
git.sh: 24.194s
git.c: 9.044s
git-var: 7.377s
The git-<tab><tab> behaviour can, along with the someday-to-be-deprecated
git-<command> form of invocation, be indefinitely retained by adding
the following line to one's .bash_profile or equivalent:
PATH=$PATH:$(git --exec-path)
Experimental libraries can be used by either setting the environment variable
GIT_EXEC_PATH, or by using
git --exec-path=/some/experimental/exec-path
Relative paths are properly grok'ed as exec-path values.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A while ago, a rename-detection limit logic was implemented as a
response to this thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=112413080630175
where gitweb was found to be using a lot of time and memory to
detect renames on huge commits. git-diff family takes -l<num>
flag, and if the number of paths that are rename destination
candidates (i.e. new paths with -M, or modified paths with -C)
are larger than that number, skips rename/copy detection even
when -M or -C is specified on the command line.
This commit makes the rename detection limit easier to use. You
can have:
[diff]
renamelimit = 30
in your .git/config file to specify the default rename detection
limit. You can override this from the command line; giving 0
means 'unlimited':
git diff -M -l0
We might want to change the default behaviour, when you do not
have the configuration, to limit it to say 20 paths or so. This
would also help the diffstat generation after a big 'git pull'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch renames the tarball "git" rather than "git-core", and changes
the names of various packages from git-core-foo to git-foo. git-core is
still the true core package; an empty RPM package named "git" pulls in
ALL the git packages -- this makes updates work correctly, and allows
"yum install git" to do the obvious thing.
It also renames the git-(core-)tk package to gitk.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Stuffing -L flag and friends meant for the linking phase into
ALL_CFLAGS is not right; honor LDFLAGS and introduce ALL_LDFLAGS
to separate them out.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Because we use "lost-found" as the directory name to hold
dangling object names, it is confusing to call the command
git-lost+found, although it makes sense and is even cute ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is GIT 1.0-rc1 in disguise. It is plausible that
relatively new parts of the system still need tweaking and
fixing, but that is why it is not 1.0 but rc ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch renames git-pack-intersect to git-pack-redundant
as suggested by Petr Baudis. The new name reflects what the
program does, rather than how it does it.
Also fix a small argument parsing bug.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch adds the program git-pack-intersect. It is
used to find redundant packs in git repositories.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Another snapshot, as slow and steady marth towards 1.0 continues.
Major changes include:
- Jim Radford's RPM split.
- Fredrik's recursive merge strategy is now default for two heads merge.
- Yaacov's SVN importer updates.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A script that can replay commits git into a CVS checkout. Tries to ensure the
sanity of the operation and supports mainly manual usage.
If you are reckless enough, you can ask it to autocommit when everything has
applied cleanly. Combined with a couple more scripts could become part of
a git2cvs gateway.
Should support adds/removes and binary files.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
There's no standard libexpat for OSX, so if you install it
after-market, it can end up in various directories. Give
paths used by fink and darwinports by default to CFLAGS.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add support for pushing to a remote repository using HTTP/DAV
Signed-off-by: Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As discussed on the list, split the foreign SCM interoperability
packages and documentation from the git-core binary package.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I think the original intention was to make CFLAGS overridable
from the make command line, but somehow we ended up accumulating
conditional makefile sections that wrongly appends values to
CFLAGs. These assignments do not work when the user actually
override them from the make command line!
DEFINES are handled the same way; it was seemingly overridable,
but the makefile sections had assignments, which meant
overriding it from the command line broke things.
This simplifies things by limiting the internal futzing to
ALL_CFLAGS, and by removing DEFINES altogether. Overriding
CFLAGS from the command line should start working with this
change.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is primarily to include the 'git clone -l' (without -s) fix,
first spotted and diagnosed by Linus and caused James Bottomley's
repository to become unreadable. It also contains documentation
updates happened on the "master" branch since 0.99.9c
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds the coolest merge strategy ever, "ours". It can take
arbitrary number of foreign heads and merge them into the
current branch, with the resulting tree always taken from our
branch head, hence its name.
What this means is that you can declare that the current branch
supersedes the development histories of other branches using
this merge strategy.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Don't set a non-standard CURLDIR as default, and fix an error
in Solaris 10 by setting NEEDS_LIBICONV.
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This contains the changes made on the master branch since 0.99.9a.
The workaround for building RPMs has not changed since 0.99.9a,
mainly because I haven't heard back if it was good enough for
kernel.org consumption, or otherwise what changes are needed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is a companion patch to 4f9dcf7e5cf6c82455925102d315daf3b833e6d6
which stops mentioning the old command names. As promised, we do not
install symlinks to let people use backward compatibility names anymore.
cmd-rename.sh script is still shipped to help people who installed
previous git by hand to clean up the leftover symlinks.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This script was superseded by git-name-rev, which is more versatile,
actually documented, faster, and everything else...
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Done in 0.99.9
==============
Ports
~~~~~
* Cygwin port [HPA].
* OpenBSD build [Merlyn and others].
Fixes
~~~~~
* clone request over git native protocol from a repository with
too many refs did not work; this has been fixed.
* git-daemon got safer for kernel.org use [HPA].
* Extended SHA1 parser was not enforcing uniqueness for
abbreviated SHA1; this has been fixed.
* http transport does not barf on funny characters in URL.
* The ref naming restrictions have been formalized and the
coreish refuses to create funny refs; we still need to audit
importers. See git-check-ref-format(1).
New Features and Commands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* .git/config file as a per-repository configuration mechanism,
and some commands understand it [Linus]. See
git(7).
* The core.filemode configuration item can be used to make us a
bit more FAT friendly. See git(7).
* The extended SHA1 notation acquired Peel-the-onion operator
^{type} and ^{}. See git-rev-parse(1).
* SVN importer [Matthias]. See git-svnimport(1).
* .git/objects/[0-9a-f]{2} directories are created on demand,
and removed when becomes empty after prune-packed [Linus].
* Filenames output from various commands without -z option are
quoted when they embed funny characters (TAB and LF) using
C-style quoting within double-quotes, to match the proposed
GNU diff/patch notation [me, but many people contributed in
the discussion].
* git-mv is expected to be a better replacement for git-rename.
While the latter has two parameter restriction, it acts more
like the regular 'mv' that can move multiple things to one
destinatino directory [Josef Weidendorfer].
* git-checkout can take filenames to revert the changes to
them. See git-checkout(1)
* The new program git-am is a replacement for git-applymbox that
has saner command line options and a bit easier to use when a
patch does not apply cleanly.
* git-ls-remote can show unwrapped onions using ^{} notation, to
help Cogito to track tags.
* git-merge-recursive backend can merge unrelated projects.
* git-clone over native transport leaves the result packed.
* git-http-fetch issues multiple requests in parallel when
underlying cURL library supports it [Nick and Daniel].
* git-fetch-pack and git-upload-pack try harder to figure out
better common commits [Johannes].
* git-read-tree -u removes a directory when it makes it empty.
* git-diff-* records abbreviated SHA1 names of original and
resulting blob; this sometimes helps to apply otherwise an
unapplicable patch by falling back to 3-way merge.
* git-format-patch now takes series of from..to rev ranges and
with '-m --stdout', writes them out to the standard output.
This can be piped to 'git-am' to implement cheaper
cherry-picking.
* git-tag takes '-u' to specify the tag signer identity [Linus].
* git-rev-list can take optional pathspecs to skip commits that
do not touch them (--dense) [Linus].
* Comes with new and improved gitk [Paulus and Linus].
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-name-rev tries to find nice symbolic names for commits. It does so by
walking the commits from the refs. When the symbolic name is ambiguous, the
following heuristic is applied: Try to avoid too many ~'s, and if two ambiguous
names have the same count of ~'s, take the one whose last number is smaller.
With "--tags", the names are derived only from tags.
With "--stdin", the stdin is parsed, and after every sha1 for which a name
could be found, the name is appended. (Try "git log | git name-rev --stdin".)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-pack-objects can reuse pack files stored in $GIT_DIR/pack-cache
directory, when a necessary pack is found. This is hopefully useful
when upload-pack (called from git-daemon) is expected to receive
requests for the same set of objects many times (e.g full cloning
request of any project, or updates from the set of heads previous day
to the latest for a slow moving project).
Currently git-pack-objects does *not* keep pack files it creates for
reusing. It might be useful to add --update-cache option to it,
which would allow it store pack files it created in the pack-cache
directory, and prune rarely used ones from it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds a very git specific restricted shell, that can be
added to /etc/shells and set to the pw_shell in the /etc/passwd
file, to give users ability to push into repositories over ssh
without giving them full interactive shell acount.
[jc: I updated Linus' patch to match what the current sq_quote()
does.]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It supersedes git-rename by adding functionality to move multiple
files, directories or symlinks into another directory. It also
provides according documentation.
The implementation renames multiple files, using the arguments from
the command line to produce an array of sources and destinations. In
a first pass, all requested renames are checked for errors, and
overwriting of existing files is only allowed with '-f'. The actual
renaming is done in a second pass. This ensures that any error
condition is checked before anything is changed.
Signed-off-by: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes the tree diff functionality independent of the "git-diff-tree"
program, by splitting the core functionality up into a library file.
This will be needed for when we teach git-rev-list to only follow a
specified set of pathnames, rather than the global revision history.
Most of it is a fairly straightforward code move, but it also involves
some calling convention cleanup, and moving some of the static variables
from diff-tree.c into the options structure.
The actual tree change callback routines also become paramterized by the
diff_options structure, allowing the library functionality to do something
else than just show the diff on stdout.
Right now the only user of this functionality remains git-diff-tree
itself.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since git-cherry-pick is simply a copy of git-revert, it can be created
before installing (so that it can be used without installing, too).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Yes I said 0.99.8e was the last maintenance release for 0.99.8, but it
turns out that there was another backport necessary after git-daemon
was unleashed on kernel.org servers.
Contains the following since 0.99.8e:
H. Peter Anvin:
revised^2: git-daemon extra paranoia, and path DWIM
Johannes Schindelin:
Fix cvsimport warning when called without --no-cvs-direct
Junio C Hamano:
Do not ask for objects known to be complete.
Linus Torvalds:
git-fetch-pack: avoid unnecessary zero packing
Optimize common case of git-rev-list
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Linus Torvalds:
make checkout-index '-a' flag saner.
Junio C Hamano:
whatchanged: document -m option from git-diff-tree.
Functions to quote and unquote pathnames in C-style.
Update git-apply to use C-style quoting for funny pathnames.
Do not quote SP.
git-checkout-index: documentation updates.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Contains the following changes since v0.99.8c.
Johannes Schindelin:
Teach git-status about spaces in file names also on MacOSX
t5400-send-pack relies on a working cpio
Jonas Fonseca:
git.sh: quote all paths
Junio C Hamano:
Also force LC_ALL in test scripts.
OpenBSD needs the strcasestr replacement.
git-check-ref-format: reject funny ref names.
Refuse to create funny refs in clone-pack, git-fetch and receive-pack.
Ignore funny refname sent from remote
Introduce notation "ref^{type}".
Martin Langhoff:
cvsimport: don't pass --cvs-direct if user options contradict us
Ralf Baechle:
rsh.c: typo fix
Note that "funny ref" bits are not strictly fixes but rather
backport from the "master" branch. They will prevent refs and
heads with funny names from being created. In addition, what is
in the master branch will start feeding the clients unwrapped
tag information to help Martin's findtags and possibly later
Cogito. These backported "funny ref" changes are to prevent
clients on the "maint" branch from getting confused when talking
with newer git-upload-pack and when reading from info/refs file
prepared with newer git-update-server-info.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update check_ref_format() function to reject ref names that:
* has a path component that begins with a ".", or
* has a double dots "..", or
* has ASCII control character, "~", "^", ":" or SP, anywhere, or
* ends with a "/".
Use it in 'git-checkout -b', 'git-branch', and 'git-tag' to make sure
that newly created refs are well-formed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update check_ref_format() function to reject ref names that:
* has a path component that begins with a ".", or
* has a double dots "..", or
* has ASCII control character, "~", "^", ":" or SP, anywhere, or
* ends with a "/".
Use it in 'git-checkout -b', 'git-branch', and 'git-tag' to make sure
that newly created refs are well-formed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Do our own ctype.h, just to get the sane semantics: we want
locale-independence, _and_ we want the right signed behaviour. Plus we
only use a very small subset of ctype.h anyway (isspace, isalpha,
isdigit and isalnum).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A short perl script that will walk the tag refs, tag objects, and even commit
objects in its quest to figure out whether the given SHA1 (for a commit or
tree) was ever tagged.
This version is reworked incorporating sanity, feature and style fixes from
Junio.
Usage: git-findtags.perl [ -t ] <commit-or-tree-sha1>
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-index-pack builds a pack index file for an existing packed
archive. With this utility a packed archive which was transferred
without the corresponding pack index can be added to objects/pack/
without repacking.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This starts using the "user.name" and "user.email" config variables if
they exist as the default name and email when committing. This means
that you don't have to use the GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment variable
to override your email - you can just edit the config file instead.
The patch looks bigger than it is because it makes the default name and
email information non-static and renames it appropriately. And it moves
the common git environment variables into a new library file, so that
you can link against libgit.a and get the git environment without having
to link in zlib and libcrypt.
In short, most of it is renaming and moving, the real change core is
just a few new lines in "git_default_config()" that copies the user
config values to the new base.
It also changes "git-var -l" to list the config variables.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If somebody set template_dir in config.mak. Then git-init-db would be
compiled with the correct location but the templates would be installed
in the default location. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this patch, it is possible to store configuration options like
NO_CURL=YesPlease or NO_OPENSSL=YesPlease into a file named
config.mak, which will be included in the Makefile.
[jc: redone with suggestion from Daniel Barkalow to just use -include]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is a first cut at a very simple parser for a git config file.
The format of the file is a simple ini-file like thing, with simple
variable/value pairs. You can (and should) make the variables have a
simple single-level scope, ie a valid file looks something like this:
#
# This is the config file, and
# a '#' or ';' character indicates
# a comment
#
; core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false
; Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = "/usr/local/bin/gnu-diff -u"
renames = true
which parses into three variables: "core.filemode" is associated with the
string "false", and "diff.external" gets the appropriate quoted value.
Right now we only react to one variable: "core.filemode" is a boolean that
decides if we should care about the 0100 (user-execute) bit of the stat
information. Even that is just a parsing demonstration - this doesn't
actually implement that st_mode compare logic itself.
Different programs can react to different config options, although they
should always fall back to calling "git_default_config()" on any config
option name that they don't recognize.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As the name suggests, this script imports from SVN.
Only "normal" SVN repositories (with single trunk/, branches/, and tags/
subdrectories) are supported. Incremental imports require preserving
the file .git/svn2git.
Signed-Off-by: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
The platform specific tweaking part was using 'uname -o' which
is not always available. Squelch error message from it.
It was suggested to chain the if..else, but I chose not to, because
maintaining the nested if..else if..else..endif endif to match is a
pain. If we had "elif", things would have been different, though.
While we are at it, try not to invoke 'uname -s' for each platform
candidate.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
exports $prefix and makes Documentation/Makefile following it also.
Signed-off-by: Kai Ruemmler <kai.ruemmler@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since some platforms do not support mmap() at all, and others do only just
so, this patch introduces the option to fake mmap() and munmap() by
malloc()ing and read()ing explicitely.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Borrow from NO_MMAP patch by Johannes, squelch compiler warnings by
declaring gitstrcasestr() when we use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It reorganizes the code and also has saner command line options
syntax. Unlike git-applymbox, it can take more than one mailbox
file from the command line, as well as reading from the standard
input when '-' is specified.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
H. Peter Anvin says that Samba "promotes" symlinks to hardlinks while
Cygwin itself uses .lnk files to emulate symlinks. Avoid using symbolic
link for .git/HEAD on Cygwin.
This does not help the symlinks recorded in trees as user data, but
at least we do not use them for our own bookkeeping.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
GIT already did everything I wanted it to do since mid 0.99.7,
and it has almost everything I want it to have now, except a
couple of minor tweaks and enhancements.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When the platform lacks certain git subcommands, omit them from the
list of subcommands that are available from "git" wrapper.
Noticed by Geert Bosch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- The location of openssl development files got customizable.
- The location of iconv development files got customizable.
- Pass $TAR down to t5000 test so that the user can override with
'gmake TAR=gtar'.
- Solaris 'bc' does not seem to grok "define abs()". There is no
reason to use bc there -- expr would do.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@twinsun.com>
This adds the counterpart of git-update-ref that lets you read
and create "symbolic refs". By default it uses a symbolic link
to represent ".git/HEAD -> refs/heads/master", but it can be compiled
to use the textfile symbolic ref.
The places that did 'readlink .git/HEAD' and 'ln -s refs/heads/blah
.git/HEAD' have been converted to use new git-symbolic-ref command, so
that they can deal with either implementation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@twinsun.com>
After seeing Jeff's guide, I changed my mind about the
big-rename transition plan. Even if Porcelains are kept up to
date, those web documents that describes older world order would
live longer and people will stumble across them via google
searches. And who knows how many mirrored copies there are.
The backward compatible symbolic links *will* be removed before
1.0. But that will not happen in 0.99.8.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is a careful version of the script stuff that currently just
blindly writes HEAD with a new value.
You can use
git-update-ref HEAD <newhead>
or
git-update-ref HEAD <newhead> <oldhead>
where the latter version verifies that the old value of HEAD matches
oldhead.
It basically allows a "ref" file to be a symbolic pointer to another ref
file by starting with the four-byte header sequence of "ref:".
More importantly, it allows the update of a ref file to follow these
symbolic pointers, whether they are symlinks or these "regular file
symbolic refs".
NOTE! It follows _real_ symlinks only if they start with "refs/":
otherwise it will just try to read them and update them as a regular file
(ie it will allow the filesystem to follow them, but will overwrite such a
symlink to somewhere else with a regular filename).
In general, using
git-update-ref HEAD "$head"
should be a _lot_ safer than doing
echo "$head" > "$GIT_DIR/HEAD"
both from a symlink following standpoint _and_ an error checking
standpoint. The "refs/" rule for symlinks means that symlinks that point
to "outside" the tree are safe: they'll be followed for reading but not
for writing (so we'll never write through a ref symlink to some other
tree, if you have copied a whole archive by creating a symlink tree).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
