The pager configuration needs to be read early, possibly before
discovering any .git/ directory.
Let's not hide this function in pager.c, but make it available to other
callers.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes a set of repositories want to share configuration settings
among themselves that are distinct from other such sets of repositories.
A user may work on two projects, each of which have multiple
repositories, and use one user.email for one project while using another
for the other.
Setting $GIT_DIR/.config works, but if the penalty of forgetting to
update $GIT_DIR/.config is high (especially when you end up cloning
often), it may not be the best way to go. Having the settings in
~/.gitconfig, which would work for just one set of repositories, would
not well in such a situation. Having separate ${HOME}s may add more
problems than it solves.
Extend the include.path mechanism that lets a config file include
another config file, so that the inclusion can be done only when some
conditions hold. Then ~/.gitconfig can say "include config-project-A
only when working on project-A" for each project A the user works on.
In this patch, the only supported grouping is based on $GIT_DIR (in
absolute path), so you would need to group repositories by directory, or
something like that to take advantage of it.
We already have include.path for unconditional includes. This patch goes
with includeIf.<condition>.path to make it clearer that a condition is
required. The new config has the same backward compatibility approach as
include.path: older git versions that don't understand includeIf will
simply ignore them.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "parse_config_key()" API function has been cleaned up.
* jk/parse-config-key-cleanup:
parse_hide_refs_config: tell parse_config_key we don't want a subsection
parse_config_key: allow matching single-level config
parse_config_key: use skip_prefix instead of starts_with
The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration
variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have
been fixed.
* jc/config-case-cmdline-take-2:
config: use git_config_parse_key() in git_config_parse_parameter()
config: move a few helper functions up
This function will be used in a following commit to get the expiration
time of the shared index files from the config, and it is generic
enough to be put in "config.c".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new function will be used in a following commit to get the
value of the "splitIndex.maxPercentChange" config variable.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new function will be used in a following commit to know
if we want to use the split index feature or not.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The parse_config_key() function was introduced to make it
easier to match "section.subsection.key" variables. It also
handles the simpler "section.key", and the caller is
responsible for distinguishing the two from its
out-parameters.
Most callers who _only_ want "section.key" would just use a
strcmp(var, "section.key"), since there is no parsing
required. However, they may still use parse_config_key() if
their "section" variable isn't a constant (an example of
this is in parse_hide_refs_config).
Using the parse_config_key is a bit clunky, though:
const char *subsection;
int subsection_len;
const char *key;
if (!parse_config_key(var, section, &subsection, &subsection_len, &key) &&
!subsection) {
/* matched! */
}
Instead, let's treat a NULL subsection as an indication that
the caller does not expect one. That lets us write:
const char *key;
if (!parse_config_key(var, section, NULL, NULL, &key)) {
/* matched! */
}
Existing callers should be unaffected, as passing a NULL
subsection would currently segfault.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This saves us having to repeatedly add in "section_len" (and
also avoids walking over the first part of the string
multiple times for a strlen() and strrchr()).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The parsing of one-shot assignments of configuration variables that
come from the command line historically was quite loose and allowed
anything to pass. It also downcased everything in the variable name,
even a three-level <section>.<subsection>.<variable> name in which
the <subsection> part must be treated in a case sensitive manner.
Existing git_config_parse_key() helper is used to parse the variable
name that comes from the command line, i.e. "git config VAR VAL",
and handles these details correctly. Replace the strbuf_tolower()
call in git_config_parse_parameter() with a call to it to correct
both issues. git_config_parse_key() does a bit more things that are
not necessary for the purpose of this codepath (e.g. it allocates a
separate buffer to return the canonicalized variable name because it
takes a "const char *" input), but we are not in a performance-critical
codepath here.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git_config_parse_key() implements the validation and downcasing of
<section> and <variable> in "<section>[.<subsection>].<variable>"
configuration variable name. Move it (and helpers it uses) a bit up
so that it can be used by git_config_parse_parameter(), which is
used to check configuration settings that are given on the command
line (i.e. "git -c VAR=VAL cmd"), in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
* nd/config-misc-fixes:
config.c: handle lock file in error case in git_config_rename_...
config.c: rename label unlock_and_out
config.c: handle error case for fstat() calls
Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
* jc/abbrev-autoscale-config:
config.abbrev: document the new default that auto-scales
When core.logallrefupdates is true, we only create a new reflog for refs
that are under certain well-known hierarchies. The reason is that we
know that some hierarchies (like refs/tags) are not meant to change, and
that unknown hierarchies might not want reflogs at all (e.g., a
hypothetical refs/foo might be meant to change often and drop old
history immediately).
However, sometimes it is useful to override this decision and simply log
for all refs, because the safety and audit trail is more important than
the performance implications of keeping the log around.
This patch introduces a new "always" mode for the core.logallrefupdates
option which will log updates to everything under refs/, regardless
where in the hierarchy it is (we still will not log things like
ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD, which are known to be transient).
Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"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
Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
* nd/config-misc-fixes:
config.c: handle lock file in error case in git_config_rename_...
config.c: rename label unlock_and_out
config.c: handle error case for fstat() calls
Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
* jc/abbrev-autoscale-config:
config.abbrev: document the new default that auto-scales
We somehow forgot to update the "default is 7" in the
documentation. Also give a way to explicitly ask the auto-scaling
by setting config.abbrev to "auto".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We could rely on atexit() to clean up everything, but let's be
explicit when we can. And it's good anyway because the function is
called the second time in the same process, we're in trouble.
This function should not affect the successful case because after
commit_lock_file() is called, rollback_lock_file() becomes no-op,
as long as it is initialized.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
teach submodules to load a '.gitmodules' file from a commit sha1. This
enables the population of the submodule_cache to be based on the state
of the '.gitmodules' file from a particular commit.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are two ways to unlock a file: commit, or revert. Rename it to
commit_and_out to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are three codepaths that use a variable whose name is
pack_compression_level to affect how objects and deltas sent to a
packfile is compressed. Unlike zlib_compression_level that controls
the loose object compression, however, this variable was static to
each of these codepaths. Two of them read the pack.compression
configuration variable, using core.compression as the default, and
one of them also allowed overriding it from the command line.
The other codepath in bulk-checkin did not pay any attention to the
configuration.
Unify the configuration parsing to git_default_config(), where we
implement the parsing of core.loosecompression and core.compression
and make the former override the latter, by moving code to parse
pack.compression and also allow core.compression to give default to
this variable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we find ambiguous short sha1s, we may get a
disambiguation rule from our caller's context. But if we
don't, we fall back to treating all sha1s the same, even
though most projects will tend to refer only to commits by
their short sha1s.
This patch introduces a configuration option that lets the
user pick a different fallback (e.g., only commits). It's
possible that we may want to make this the default, but it's
a good idea to start as a config option for two reasons:
1. It lets people experiment with this and see if it's a
good idea (i.e., the "tend to" above is an assumption;
we don't really know if this will break some obscure
cases).
2. Even if we do flip the default, it gives people an
escape hatch if it causes problems (you can sometimes
override it by asking for "1234^{tree}", but not all
combinations are possible).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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
When git_config() runs, it looks in the system, user-wide,
and repo-level config files. It gets the latter by calling
git_pathdup(), which in turn calls get_git_dir(). If we
haven't set up the git repository yet, this may simply
return ".git", and we will look at ".git/config". This
seems like it would be helpful (presumably we haven't set up
the repository yet, so it tries to find it), but it turns
out to be a bad idea for a few reasons:
- it's not sufficient, and therefore hides bugs in a
confusing way. Config will be respected if commands are
run from the top-level of the working tree, but not from
a subdirectory.
- it's not always true that we haven't set up the
repository _yet_; we may not want to do it at all. For
instance, if you run "git init /some/path" from inside
another repository, it should not load config from the
existing repository.
- there might be a path ".git/config", but it is not the
actual repository we would find via setup_git_directory().
This may happen, e.g., if you are storing a git
repository inside another git repository, but have
munged one of the files in such a way that the
inner repository is not valid (e.g., by removing HEAD).
We have at least two bugs of the second type in git-init,
introduced by ae5f677 (lazily load core.sharedrepository,
2016-03-11). It causes init to use git_configset(), which
loads all of the config, including values from the current
repo (if any). This shows up in two ways:
1. If we happen to be in an existing repository directory,
we'll read and respect core.sharedrepository from it,
even though it should have no bearing on the new
repository. A new test in t1301 covers this.
2. Similarly, if we're in an existing repo that sets
core.logallrefupdates, that will cause init to fail to
set it in a newly created repository (because it thinks
that the user's templates already did so). A new test
in t0001 covers this.
We also need to adjust an existing test in t1302, which
gives another example of why this patch is an improvement.
That test creates an embedded repository with a bogus
core.repositoryformatversion of "99". It wants to make sure
that we actually stop at the bogus repo rather than
continuing upward to find the outer repo. So it checks that
"git config core.repositoryformatversion" returns 99. But
that only works because we blindly read ".git/config", even
though we _know_ we're in a repository whose vintage we do
not understand.
After this patch, we avoid reading config from the unknown
vintage repository at all, which is a safer choice. But we
need to tweak the test, since core.repositoryformatversion
will not return 99; it will claim that it could not find the
variable at all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git_pager(), we really only care about getting the value
of core.pager. But to do so, we use the git_default_config()
callback, which loads many other values. Ordinarily it
isn't a big deal to load this config an extra time, as it
simply overwrites the values from the previous run. But it's
a bad idea here, for two reasons:
1. The pager setup may be called very early in the
program, before we have found the git repository. As a
result, we may fail to read the correct repo-level
config file. This is a problem for core.pager, too,
but we should at least try to minimize the pollution to
other configured values.
2. Because we call setup_pager() from git.c, basically
every builtin command _may_ end up reading this config
and getting an implicit git_default_config() setup.
Which doesn't sound like a terrible thing, except that
we don't do it consistently; it triggers only when
stdout is a tty. So if a command forgets to load the
default config itself (but depends on it anyway), it
may appear to work, and then mysteriously fail when the
pager is not in use.
We can improve this by loading _just_ the core.pager config
from git_pager().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduced in 473166b ("config: add 'origin_type' to config_source
struct", 2016-02-19), Git can inform the user about the origin of a
config error, but the implementation does not allow translators to
translate the keywords 'file', 'blob, 'standard input', and
'submodule-blob'. Moreover, for the second message, a reason for the
error is appended to the message, not allowing translators to translate
that reason either.
Unfold the message into several templates for each known origin_type.
That would result in better translation at the expense of code
verbosity.
Add enum config_oringin_type to ease management of the various
configuration origin types (blob, file, etc). Previously origin type
was considered from command line if cf->origin_type == NULL, i.e.,
uninitialized. Now we set origin_type to CONFIG_ORIGIN_CMDLINE in
git_config_from_parameters() and configset_add_value().
For error message in git_parse_source(), use xstrfmt() function to
prepare the message string, instead of doing something like it's done
for die_bad_number(), because intelligibility and code conciseness are
improved for that instance.
Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"upload-pack" allows a custom "git pack-objects" replacement when
responding to "fetch/clone" via the uploadpack.packObjectsHook.
* jk/upload-pack-hook:
upload-pack: provide a hook for running pack-objects
t1308: do not get fooled by symbolic links to the source tree
config: add a notion of "scope"
config: return configset value for current_config_ functions
config: set up config_source for command-line config
git_config_parse_parameter: refactor cleanup code
git_config_with_options: drop "found" counting
A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
* tb/core-eol-fix:
convert.c: ident + core.autocrlf didn't work
t0027: test cases for combined attributes
convert: allow core.autocrlf=input and core.eol=crlf
t0027: make commit_chk_wrnNNO() reliable
A config callback passed to git_config() doesn't know very
much about the context in which it sees a variable. It can
ask whether the variable comes from a file, and get the file
name. But without analyzing the filename (which is hard to
do accurately), it cannot tell whether it is in system-level
config, user-level config, or repo-specific config.
Generally this doesn't matter; the point of not passing this
to the callback is that it should treat the config the same
no matter where it comes from. But some programs, like
upload-pack, are a special case: we should be able to run
them in an untrusted repository, which means we cannot use
any "dangerous" config from the repository config file (but
it is OK to use it from system or user config).
This patch teaches the config code to record the "scope" of
each variable, and make it available inside config
callbacks, similar to how we give access to the filename.
The scope is the starting source for a particular parsing
operation, and remains the same even if we include other
files (so a .git/config which includes another file will
remain CONFIG_SCOPE_REPO, as it would be similarly
untrusted).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 473166b (config: add 'origin_type' to config_source
struct, 2016-02-19) added accessor functions for the origin
type and name, it taught them only to look at the "cf"
struct that is filled in while we are parsing the config.
This is sufficient to make it work with git-config, which
uses git_config_with_options() under the hood. That function
freshly parses the config files and triggers the callback
when it parses each key.
Most git programs, however, use git_config(). This interface
will populate a cache during the actual parse, and then
serve values from the cache. Calling current_config_filename()
in a callback here will find a NULL cf and produce an error.
There are no such callers right now, but let's prepare for
adding some by making this work.
We already record source information in a struct attached to
each value. We just need to make it globally available and
then consult it from the accessor functions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
customize this behaviour.
* js/windows-dotgit:
mingw: remove unnecessary definition
mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting
When we parse a config file, we set up the global "cf"
variable as a pointer to a "struct config_source" describing
the file we are parsing. This is used for error messages, as
well as for lookup functions like current_config_name().
The "cf" variable is NULL in two cases:
1. When we are parsing command-line config, in which case
there is no source file.
2. When we are not parsing any config at all.
Callers like current_config_name() must assume we are in
case 1 if they see a NULL "cf". However, this means that if
they are accidentally used outside of a config parsing
callback, they will quietly return a bogus answer.
This might seem like an unlikely accident (why would you ask
for the current config file if you are not parsing config?),
but it's actually an easy mistake to make due to the
configset caching. git_config() serves the answers from a
configset cache, and any calls to current_config_name() will
claim that we are parsing command-line config, no matter
what the original source.
So let's distinguish these cases by having the command-line
config parser set up a config_source with a NULL name (which
callers already handle properly). We can use this to catch
programming errors in some cases, and to give better
messages to the user in others.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have several exits from the function, each of which has
to do some cleanup. Let's consolidate these in an "out"
label we can jump to. This doesn't save us much now, but it
will help as we add more things that need cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prior to 1f2baa7 (config: treat non-existent config files as
empty, 2010-10-21), we returned an error if any config files
were missing. That commit made this a non-error, but
returned the number of sources found, in case any caller
wanted to distinguish this case.
In the past 5+ years, no caller has; the only two places
which bother to check the return value care only about the
error case. Let's drop this code, which complicates the
function. Similarly, let's drop the "found anything" return
from git_config_from_parameters, which was present only to
support this (and similarly has never had other callers care
for the past 5+ years).
Note that we do need to update a comment in one of the
callers, even though the code immediately below it doesn't
care about this case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
* tb/core-eol-fix:
convert.c: ident + core.autocrlf didn't work
t0027: test cases for combined attributes
convert: allow core.autocrlf=input and core.eol=crlf
t0027: make commit_chk_wrnNNO() reliable
* sb/misc-cleanups:
submodule-config: don't shadow `cache`
config.c: drop local variable
credential-cache, send_request: close fd when done
bundle: don't leak an fd in case of early return
abbrev_sha1_in_line: don't leak memory
notes: don't leak memory in git_config_get_notes_strategy
On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
customize this behaviour.
* js/windows-dotgit:
mingw: remove unnecessary definition
mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting
The code for warning_errno/die_errno has been refactored and a new
error_errno() reporting helper is introduced.
* nd/error-errno: (41 commits)
wrapper.c: use warning_errno()
vcs-svn: use error_errno()
upload-pack.c: use error_errno()
unpack-trees.c: use error_errno()
transport-helper.c: use error_errno()
sha1_file.c: use {error,die,warning}_errno()
server-info.c: use error_errno()
sequencer.c: use error_errno()
run-command.c: use error_errno()
rerere.c: use error_errno() and warning_errno()
reachable.c: use error_errno()
mailmap.c: use error_errno()
ident.c: use warning_errno()
http.c: use error_errno() and warning_errno()
grep.c: use error_errno()
gpg-interface.c: use error_errno()
fast-import.c: use error_errno()
entry.c: use error_errno()
editor.c: use error_errno()
diff-no-index.c: use error_errno()
...
A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing
where the hook directory is.
* ab/hooks:
hooks: allow customizing where the hook directory is
githooks.txt: minor improvements to the grammar & phrasing
githooks.txt: amend dangerous advice about 'update' hook ACL
githooks.txt: improve the intro section
On Unix (and Linux), files and directories whose names start with a dot
are usually not shown by default. This convention is used by Git: the
.git/ directory should be left alone by regular users, and only accessed
through Git itself.
On Windows, no such convention exists. Instead, there is an explicit flag
to mark files or directories as hidden.
In the early days, Git for Windows did not mark the .git/ directory (or
for that matter, any file or directory whose name starts with a dot)
hidden. This lead to quite a bit of confusion, and even loss of data.
Consequently, Git for Windows introduced the core.hideDotFiles setting,
with three possible values: true, false, and dotGitOnly, defaulting to
marking only the .git/ directory as hidden.
The rationale: users do not need to access .git/ directly, and indeed (as
was demonstrated) should not really see that directory, either. However,
not all dot files should be hidden by default, as e.g. Eclipse does not
show them (and the user would therefore be unable to see, say, a
.gitattributes file).
In over five years since the last attempt to bring this patch into core
Git, a slightly buggy version of this patch has served Git for Windows'
users well: no single report indicated problems with the hidden .git/
directory, and the stream of problems caused by the previously non-hidden
.git/ directory simply stopped. The bugs have been fixed during the
process of getting this patch upstream.
Note that there is a funny quirk we have to pay attention to when
creating hidden files: we use Win32's _wopen() function which
transmogrifies its arguments and hands off to Win32's CreateFile()
function. That latter function errors out with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED (the
equivalent of EACCES) when the equivalent of the O_CREAT flag was passed
and the file attributes (including the hidden flag) do not match an
existing file's. And _wopen() accepts no parameter that would be
transmogrified into said hidden flag. Therefore, we simply try again
without O_CREAT.
A slightly different method is required for our fopen()/freopen()
function as we cannot even *remove* the implicit O_CREAT flag.
Therefore, we briefly mark existing files as unhidden when opening them
via fopen()/freopen().
The ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED error can also be triggered by opening a file
that is marked as a system file (which is unlikely to be tracked in
Git), and by trying to create a file that has *just* been deleted and is
awaiting the last open handles to be released (which would be handled
better by the "Try again?" logic, a story for a different patch series,
though). In both cases, it does not matter much if we try again without
the O_CREAT flag, read: it does not hurt, either.
For details how ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED can be triggered, see
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363858
Original-patch-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Initial-Test-By: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the hardcoded lookup for .git/hooks/* to optionally lookup in
$(git config core.hooksPath)/* instead.
This is essentially a more intrusive version of the git-init ability to
specify hooks on init time via init templates.
The difference between that facility and this feature is that this can
be set up after the fact via e.g. ~/.gitconfig or /etc/gitconfig to
apply for all your personal repositories, or all repositories on the
system.
I plan on using this on a centralized Git server where users can create
arbitrary repositories under /gitroot, but I'd like to manage all the
hooks that should be run centrally via a unified dispatch mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to
printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed.
* jk/do-not-printf-NULL:
git_config_set_multivar_in_file: handle "unset" errors
git_config_set_multivar_in_file: all non-zero returns are errors
config: lower-case first word of error strings
As `ret` is not used for anything except determining an early return,
we don't need a variable for that. Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though the configuration parser errors out when core.autocrlf
is set to 'input' when core.eol is set to 'crlf', there is no need
to do so, because the core.autocrlf setting trumps core.eol.
Allow all combinations of core.crlf and core.eol and document
that core.autocrlf overrides core.eol.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to
printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed.
* jk/do-not-printf-NULL:
git_config_set_multivar_in_file: handle "unset" errors
git_config_set_multivar_in_file: all non-zero returns are errors
config: lower-case first word of error strings
The repository set-up sequence has been streamlined (the biggest
change is that there is no longer git_config_early()), so that we
do not attempt to look into refs/* when we know we do not have a
Git repository.
* jk/check-repository-format:
verify_repository_format: mark messages for translation
setup: drop repository_format_version global
setup: unify repository version callbacks
init: use setup.c's repo version verification
setup: refactor repo format reading and verification
config: drop git_config_early
check_repository_format_gently: stop using git_config_early
lazily load core.sharedrepository
wrap shared_repository global in get/set accessors
setup: document check_repository_format()
We pass off to the "_gently" form to do the real work, and
just die() if it returned an error. However, our die message
de-references "value", which may be NULL if the request was
to unset a variable. Nobody using glibc noticed, because it
simply prints "(null)", which is good enough for the test
suite (and presumably very few people run across this in
practice). But other libc implementations (like Solaris) may
segfault.
Let's not only fix that, but let's make the message more
clear about what is going on in the "unset" case.
Reported-by: "Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@jupiterrise.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function is just a thin wrapper for the "_gently" form
of the function. But the gently form is designed to feed
builtin/config.c, which passes our return code directly to
its exit status, and thus uses positive error values for
some cases. We check only negative values, meaning we would
fail to die in some cases (e.g., a malformed key).
This may or may not be triggerable in practice; we tend to
use this non-gentle form only when setting internal
variables, which would not have malformed keys.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This follows our usual style (both throughout git, and
throughout the rest of this file).
This covers the whole file, but note that I left the capitalization in
the multi-sentence:
error: malformed value...
error: Must be one of ...
because it helps make it clear that we are starting a new sentence in
the second one.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git -c credential.<var>=<value> submodule" can now be used to
propagate configuration variables related to credential helper
down to the submodules.
* jk/submodule-c-credential:
git_config_push_parameter: handle empty GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
git: submodule honor -c credential.* from command line
quote: implement sq_quotef()
submodule: fix segmentation fault in submodule--helper clone
submodule: fix submodule--helper clone usage
submodule: check argc count for git submodule--helper clone
submodule: don't pass empty string arguments to submodule--helper clone
The "git -c var=value" option stuffs the config value into
$GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS, so that sub-processes can see it.
When the config is later read via git_config() or similar,
we parse it back out of that variable. The parsing end is a
little bit picky; it assumes that each entry was generated
with sq_quote_buf(), and that there is no extraneous
whitespace.
On the generating end, we are careful to append to an
existing $GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS variable if it exists.
However, our test for "should we add a space separator" is
too liberal: it will add one even if the environment
variable exists but is empty. As a result, you might end up
with:
GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS=" 'core.foo=bar'"
which the parser will choke on.
This was hard to trigger in older versions of git, since we
only set the variable when we had something to put into it
(though you could certainly trigger it manually). But since
14111fc (git: submodule honor -c credential.* from command
line, 2016-02-29), the submodule code will unconditionally
put the $GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS variable into the environment
of any operation in the submodule, whether it is empty or
not. So any of those operations which themselves use "git
-c" will generate the unparseable value and fail.
We can easily fix it by catching this case on the generating
side. While we're adding a test, let's also check that
multiple layers of "git -c" work, which was previously not
tested at all.
Reported-by: Shin Fan <shinfan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are no more callers, and it's a rather confusing
interface. This could just be folded into
git_config_with_options(), but for the sake of readability,
we'll leave it as a separate (static) helper function.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/tighten-alloc: (23 commits)
compat/mingw: brown paper bag fix for 50a6c8e
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
...
Many codepaths forget to check return value from git_config_set();
the function is made to die() to make sure we do not proceed when
setting a configuration variable failed.
* ps/config-error:
config: rename git_config_set_or_die to git_config_set
config: rename git_config_set to git_config_set_gently
compat: die when unable to set core.precomposeunicode
sequencer: die on config error when saving replay opts
init-db: die on config errors when initializing empty repo
clone: die on config error in cmd_clone
remote: die on config error when manipulating remotes
remote: die on config error when setting/adding branches
remote: die on config error when setting URL
submodule--helper: die on config error when cloning module
submodule: die on config error when linking modules
branch: die on config error when editing branch description
branch: die on config error when unsetting upstream
branch: report errors in tracking branch setup
config: introduce set_or_die wrappers
The configuration system has been taught to phrase where it found a
bad configuration variable in a better way in its error messages.
"git config" learnt a new "--show-origin" option to indicate where
the values come from.
* ls/config-origin:
config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config value
config: add 'origin_type' to config_source struct
rename git_config_from_buf to git_config_from_mem
t: do not hide Git's exit code in tests using 'nul_to_q'
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
...
We frequently allocate strings as xmalloc(len + 1), where
the extra 1 is for the NUL terminator. This can be done more
simply with xmallocz, which also checks for integer
overflow.
There's no case where switching xmalloc(n+1) to xmallocz(n)
is wrong; the result is the same length, and malloc made no
guarantees about what was in the buffer anyway. But in some
cases, we can stop manually placing NUL at the end of the
allocated buffer. But that's only safe if it's clear that
the contents will always fill the buffer.
In each case where this patch does so, I manually examined
the control flow, and I tried to err on the side of caution.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename git_config_set_or_die functions to git_config_set, leading
to the new default behavior of dying whenever a configuration
error occurs.
By now all callers that shall die on error have been transitioned
to the _or_die variants, thus making this patch a simple rename
of the functions.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The desired default behavior for `git_config_set` is to die
whenever an error occurs. Dying is the default for a lot of
internal functions when failures occur and is in this case the
right thing to do for most callers as otherwise we might run into
inconsistent repositories without noticing.
As some code may rely on the actual return values for
`git_config_set` we still require the ability to invoke these
functions without aborting. Rename the existing `git_config_set`
functions to `git_config_set_gently` to keep them available for
those callers.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the config origin_type to print more detailed error messages that
inform the user about the origin of a config error (file, stdin, blob).
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This matches the naming used in the index_{fd,mem,...} functions.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A lot of call-sites for the existing family of `git_config_set`
functions do not check for errors that may occur, e.g. when the
configuration file is locked. In many cases we simply want to die
when such a situation arises.
Introduce wrappers that will cause the program to die in those
cases. These wrappers are temporary only to ease the transition
to let `git_config_set` die by default. They will be removed
later on when `git_config_set` itself has been replaced by
`git_config_set_gently`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To correctly perform its testing function,
test-dump-untracked-cache should not change the state of the
untracked cache in the index.
As a previous patch makes read_index_from() change the state of
the untracked cache and as test-dump-untracked-cache indirectly
calls this function, we need a mechanism to prevent
read_index_from() from changing the untracked cache state when
it's called from test-dump-untracked-cache.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we know that mtime on directory as given by the environment
is usable for the purpose of untracked cache, we may want the
untracked cache to be always used without any mtime test or
kernel name check being performed.
Also when we know that mtime is not usable for the purpose of
untracked cache, for example because the repo is shared over a
network file system, we may want the untracked-cache to be
automatically removed from the index.
Allow the user to express such preference by setting the
'core.untrackedCache' configuration variable, which can take
'keep', 'false', or 'true' and default to 'keep'.
When read_index_from() is called, it now adds or removes the
untracked cache in the index to respect the value of this
variable. So it does nothing if the value is `keep` or if the
variable is unset; it adds the untracked cache if the value is
`true`; and it removes the cache if the value is `false`.
`git update-index --[no-|force-]untracked-cache` still adds the
untracked cache to, or removes it, from the index, but this
shows a warning if it goes against the value of
core.untrackedCache, because the next time the index is read
the untracked cache will be added or removed if the
configuration is set to do so.
Also `--untracked-cache` used to check that the underlying
operating system and file system change `st_mtime` field of a
directory if files are added or deleted in that directory. But
because those tests take a long time, `--untracked-cache` no
longer performs them. Instead, there is now
`--test-untracked-cache` to perform the tests. This change
makes `--untracked-cache` the same as `--force-untracked-cache`.
This last change is backward incompatible and should be
mentioned in the release notes.
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
read-cache: Duy'sfixup
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error message after a failing commit_lock_file() call sometimes
looks like this, causing confusion:
$ git remote add remote git@server.com/repo.git
error: could not commit config file .git/config
# Huh?!
# I didn't want to commit anything, especially not my config file!
While in the narrow context of the lockfile module using the verb
'commit' in the error message makes perfect sense, in the broader
context of git the word 'commit' already has a very specific meaning,
hence the confusion.
Reword these error messages to say "could not write" instead of "could
not commit".
While at it, include strerror in the error messages after writing the
config file or the credential store fails to provide some information
about the cause of the failure, and update the style of the error
message after writing the reflog fails to match surrounding error
messages (i.e. no '' around the pathname and no () around the error
description).
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The client side codepaths in "git push" have been cleaned up
and the user can request to perform an optional "signed push",
i.e. sign only when the other end accepts signed push.
* db/push-sign-if-asked:
push: add a config option push.gpgSign for default signed pushes
push: support signing pushes iff the server supports it
builtin/send-pack.c: use parse_options API
config.c: rename git_config_maybe_bool_text and export it as git_parse_maybe_bool
transport: remove git_transport_options.push_cert
gitremote-helpers.txt: document pushcert option
Documentation/git-send-pack.txt: document --signed
Documentation/git-send-pack.txt: wrap long synopsis line
Documentation/git-push.txt: document when --signed may fail
Because the configuration system does not allow "alias.0foo" and
"pager.0foo" as the configuration key, the user cannot use '0foo'
as a custom command name anyway, but "git 0foo" tried to look these
keys up and emitted useless warnings before saying '0foo is not a
git command'. These warning messages have been squelched.
* jk/fix-alias-pager-config-key-warnings:
config: silence warnings for command names with invalid keys
The "lockfile" API has been rebuilt on top of a new "tempfile" API.
* mh/tempfile:
credential-cache--daemon: use tempfile module
credential-cache--daemon: delete socket from main()
gc: use tempfile module to handle gc.pid file
lock_repo_for_gc(): compute the path to "gc.pid" only once
diff: use tempfile module
setup_temporary_shallow(): use tempfile module
write_shared_index(): use tempfile module
register_tempfile(): new function to handle an existing temporary file
tempfile: add several functions for creating temporary files
prepare_tempfile_object(): new function, extracted from create_tempfile()
tempfile: a new module for handling temporary files
commit_lock_file(): use get_locked_file_path()
lockfile: add accessor get_lock_file_path()
lockfile: add accessors get_lock_file_fd() and get_lock_file_fp()
create_bundle(): duplicate file descriptor to avoid closing it twice
lockfile: move documentation to lockfile.h and lockfile.c
When we are running the git command "foo", we may have to
look up the config keys "pager.foo" and "alias.foo". These
config schemes are mis-designed, as the command names can be
anything, but the config syntax has some restrictions. For
example:
$ git foo_bar
error: invalid key: pager.foo_bar
error: invalid key: alias.foo_bar
git: 'foo_bar' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
You cannot name an alias with an underscore. And if you have
an external command with one, you cannot configure its
pager.
In the long run, we may develop a different config scheme
for these features. But in the near term (and because we'll
need to support the existing scheme indefinitely), we should
at least squelch the error messages shown above.
These errors come from git_config_parse_key. Ideally we
would pass a "quiet" flag to the config machinery, but there
are many layers between the pager code and the key parsing.
Passing a flag through all of those would be an invasive
change.
Instead, let's provide a config function to report on
whether a key is syntactically valid, and have the pager and
alias code skip lookup for bogus keys. We can build this
easily around the existing git_config_parse_key, with two
minor modifications:
1. We now handle a NULL store_key, to validate but not
write out the normalized key.
2. We accept a "quiet" flag to avoid writing to stderr.
This doesn't need to be a full-blown public "flags"
field, because we can make the existing implementation
a static helper function, keeping the mess contained
inside config.c.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This helper function does not complain about the config variable
but just silently reports failure to the caller. It is useful for
callers that need to parse any string that could be boolean or other
string (e.g. tristate yes/no/auto).
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When updating an existing configuration file, we did not always
close the filehandle that is reading from the current configuration
file when we encountered an error (e.g. when unsetting a variable
that does not exist).
Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
Signed-off-by: Sup Yut Sum <ch3cooli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git config" failed to update the configuration file when the
underlying filesystem is incapable of renaming a file that is still
open.
* kb/config-unmap-before-renaming:
config.c: fix writing config files on Windows network shares
Renaming to an existing file doesn't work on Windows network shares if the
target file is open.
munmap() the old config file before commit_lock_file.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The configuration reader/writer uses mmap(2) interface to access
the files; when we find a directory, it barfed with "Out of memory?".
* jk/diagnose-config-mmap-failure:
xmmap(): drop "Out of memory?"
config.c: rewrite ENODEV into EISDIR when mmap fails
config.c: avoid xmmap error messages
config.c: fix mmap leak when writing config
read-cache.c: drop PROT_WRITE from mmap of index
The configuration reader/writer uses mmap(2) interface to access
the files; when we find a directory, it barfed with "Out of memory?".
* jk/diagnose-config-mmap-failure:
xmmap(): drop "Out of memory?"
config.c: rewrite ENODEV into EISDIR when mmap fails
config.c: avoid xmmap error messages
config.c: fix mmap leak when writing config
read-cache.c: drop PROT_WRITE from mmap of index
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.
* pt/xdg-config-path:
path.c: remove home_config_paths()
git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
t0302: "unreadable" test needs POSIXPERM
t0302: test credential-store support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME
git-credential-store: support XDG_CONFIG_HOME
git-credential-store: support multiple credential files
If we try to mmap a directory, we'll get ENODEV. This
translates to "no such device" for the user, which is not
very helpful. Since we've just fstat()'d the file, we can
easily check whether the problem was a directory to give a
better message.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The config-writing code uses xmmap to map the existing
config file, which will die if the map fails. This has two
downsides:
1. The error message is not very helpful, as it lacks any
context about the file we are mapping:
$ mkdir foo
$ git config --file=foo some.key value
fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device
2. We normally do not die in this code path; instead, we'd
rather report the error and return an appropriate exit
status (which is part of the public interface
documented in git-config.1).
This patch introduces a "gentle" form of xmmap which lets us
produce our own error message. We do not want to use mmap
directly, because we would like to use the other
compatibility elements of xmmap (e.g., handling 0-length
maps portably).
The end result is:
$ git.compile config --file=foo some.key value
error: unable to mmap 'foo': No such device
$ echo $?
3
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We mmap the existing config file, but fail to unmap it if we
hit an error. The function already has a shared exit path,
so we can fix this by moving the mmap pointer to the
function scope and clearing it in the shared exit.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files
that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the
beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
files already.
* cn/bom-in-gitignore:
attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file
config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source()
utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper
add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic
dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.
* pt/xdg-config-path:
path.c: remove home_config_paths()
git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
An earlier rewrite to use strbuf_getwholeline() instead of fgets(3)
to read packed-refs file revealed that the former is unacceptably
inefficient.
* jk/reading-packed-refs:
t1430: add another refs-escape test
read_packed_refs: avoid double-checking sane refs
strbuf_getwholeline: use getdelim if it is available
strbuf_getwholeline: avoid calling strbuf_grow
strbuf_addch: avoid calling strbuf_grow
config: use getc_unlocked when reading from file
strbuf_getwholeline: use getc_unlocked
git-compat-util: add fallbacks for unlocked stdio
strbuf_getwholeline: use getc macro
Since home_config_paths() combines distinct functionality already
implemented by expand_user_path() and xdg_config_home(), and hides the
home config file path ~/.gitconfig. Make the code more explicit by
replacing the use of home_config_paths() with expand_user_path() and
xdg_config_home().
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files
that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the
beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
files already.
* cn/bom-in-gitignore:
attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file
config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source()
utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper
add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic
dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files
Because the function reads one character at the time, unfortunately
we cannot use the easier skip_utf8_bom() helper, but at least we do
not have to duplicate the constant string this way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We read config files character-by-character from a stdio
handle using fgetc(). This incurs significant locking
overhead, even though we know that only one thread can
possibly access the handle. We can speed this up by taking
the lock ourselves, and then using getc_unlocked to read
each character.
On a silly pathological case:
perl -le '
print "[core]";
print "key$_ = value$_" for (1..1000000)
' >input
git config -f input core.key1
this dropped the time to run git-config from:
real 0m0.263s
user 0m0.260s
sys 0m0.000s
to:
real 0m0.159s
user 0m0.152s
sys 0m0.004s
for a savings of 39%. Most config files are not this big,
but the savings should be proportional to the size of the
file (i.e., we always save 39%, just of a much smaller
number).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reading configuration from a blob object, when it ends with a lone
CR, use to confuse the configuration parser.
* jk/config-no-ungetc-eof:
config_buf_ungetc: warn when pushing back a random character
config: do not ungetc EOF
"git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it
tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD".
* jk/blame-commit-label:
blame.c: fix garbled error message
use xstrdup_or_null to replace ternary conditionals
builtin/commit.c: use xstrdup_or_null instead of envdup
builtin/apply.c: use xstrdup_or_null instead of null_strdup
git-compat-util: add xstrdup_or_null helper
Our config code simulates a stdio stream around a buffer,
but our fake ungetc() does not behave quite like the real
one. In particular, we only rewind the position by one
character, but do _not_ actually put the character from the
caller into position.
It turns out that this does not matter, because we only ever
push back the character we just read. In other words, such
an assignment would be a noop. But because the function is
called ungetc, and because it takes a character parameter,
it is a mistake waiting to happen.
Actually assigning the character into the buffer would be
ideal, but our pointer is actually a "const" copy of the
buffer. We do not know who the real owner of the buffer is
in this code, and would not want to munge their contents.
Instead, we can simply add an assertion that matches what
the current caller does, and will let us know if new callers
are added that violate the contract.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
