If a remote repo has too many tags (or branches), cloning it over the
smart HTTP transport can fail because remote-curl.c puts all the refs
from the remote repo on the fetch-pack command line. This can make the
command line longer than the global OS command line limit, causing
fetch-pack to fail.
This is especially a problem on Windows where the command line limit is
orders of magnitude shorter than Linux. There are already real repos out
there that msysGit cannot clone over smart HTTP due to this problem.
Here is an easy way to trigger this problem:
git init too-many-refs
cd too-many-refs
echo bla > bla.txt
git add .
git commit -m test
sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
tag=$(perl -e 'print "bla" x 30')
for i in `seq 50000`; do
echo $sha refs/tags/$tag-$i >> .git/packed-refs
done
Then share this repo over the smart HTTP protocol and try cloning it:
$ git clone http://localhost/.../too-many-refs/.git
Cloning into 'too-many-refs'...
fatal: cannot exec 'fetch-pack': Argument list too long
50k tags is obviously an absurd number, but it is required to
demonstrate the problem on Linux because it has a much more generous
command line limit. On Windows the clone fails with as little as 500
tags in the above loop, which is getting uncomfortably close to the
number of tags you might see in real long lived repos.
This is not just theoretical, msysGit is already failing to clone our
company repo due to this. It's a large repo converted from CVS, nearly
10 years of history.
Four possible solutions were discussed on the Git mailing list (in no
particular order):
1) Call fetch-pack multiple times with smaller batches of refs.
This was dismissed as inefficient and inelegant.
2) Add option --refs-fd=$n to pass a an fd from where to read the refs.
This was rejected because inheriting descriptors other than
stdin/stdout/stderr through exec() is apparently problematic on Windows,
plus it would require changes to the run-command API to open extra
pipes.
3) Add option --refs-from=$tmpfile to pass the refs using a temp file.
This was not favored because of the temp file requirement.
4) Add option --stdin to pass the refs on stdin, one per line.
In the end this option was chosen as the most efficient and most
desirable from scripting perspective.
There was however a small complication when using stdin to pass refs to
fetch-pack. The --stateless-rpc option to fetch-pack also uses stdin for
communication with the remote server.
If we are going to sneak refs on stdin line by line, it would have to be
done very carefully in the presence of --stateless-rpc, because when
reading refs line by line we might read ahead too much data into our
buffer and eat some of the remote protocol data which is also coming on
stdin.
One way to solve this would be to refactor get_remote_heads() in
fetch-pack.c to accept a residual buffer from our stdin line parsing
above, but this function is used in several places so other callers
would be burdened by this residual buffer interface even when most of
them don't need it.
In the end we settled on the following solution:
If --stdin is specified without --stateless-rpc, fetch-pack would read
the refs from stdin one per line, in a script friendly format.
However if --stdin is specified together with --stateless-rpc,
fetch-pack would read the refs from stdin in packetized format
(pkt-line) with a flush packet terminating the list of refs. This way we
can read the exact number of bytes that we need from stdin, and then
get_remote_heads() can continue reading from the same fd without losing
a single byte of remote protocol data.
This way the --stdin option only loses generality and scriptability when
used together with --stateless-rpc, which is not easily scriptable
anyway because it also uses pkt-line when talking to the remote server.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Todoroski <grnch@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The changes to the dialog window tree broke the preview of the selected
font on the button. This corrects that issue.
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 8.5 the incr command creates the target variable if it does not exist
but in 8.4 using incr on a non-existing variable raises an error. Ensure
we have created our counter variable when creating the tabbed dialog for
non-themed preferences.
Reported-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Portuguese Portuguese translations from Marco Sousa via Jiang Xin
* 'master' of git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po:
l10n: Add the Dutch translation team and initialize nl.po
l10n: Inital Portuguese Portugal language (pt_PT)
l10n: Improve zh_CN translation for Git 1.7.10-rc3
Make it clear that, when using commit --template, the message *must* be
changed or the commit will be aborted.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Ivan Heffner <iheffner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some distributors customize the fallback pager and editor used by git
commands when the user has not indicated a preference via the
core.editor/core.pager configuration or GIT_EDITOR, GIT_PAGER, VISUAL,
EDITOR, and PAGER environment variables, and git's build system
provides DEFAULT_PAGER and DEFAULT_EDITOR makefile settings to help
them with that (see v1.6.6-rc0~24, 2009-11-20).
Unfortunately those compile-time settings do not affect the
documentation, so the uninitiated user who tries to understand git by
reading the git-var(1) manpage can easily be confused when git falls
back to 'nano' and 'more' instead of 'vi' and 'less'. Even if the
distributor patches the distributed docs to reflect the new default,
the user may read the official documentation from the git-htmldocs
repository online and be confused in the same way.
Add a few words stating that the defaults are customizable at
compile time to make the behavior crystal clear.
Reported-by: Rodrigo Silva (MestreLion) <linux@rodrigosilva.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the user exited editor without editing the commit log template given
by "git commit -t <template>", the commit was aborted (correct) with an
error message that said "due to empty commit message" (incorrect).
This was because the original template support was done by piggybacking on
the check to detect an empty log message. Split the codepaths into two
independent checks to clarify the error.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "-t template" and "-F msg" options are both given (or worse yet,
there is "commit.template" configuration but a message is given in some
other way), the documentation says that template is ignored. However,
the "has the user edited the message?" check still used the contents of
the template file as the basis of the emptyness check.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These tests try to run "git commit" with various "forbidden" combinations
of options and expect the command to fail, but they do so without having
any change added to the index. We wouldn't be able to catch breakages
that would allow these combinations by mistake with them because the
command will fail with "nothing to commit" anyway.
Make sure we have something added to the index before running the command.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The http-backend program sets default GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL variables based on the REMOTE_USER and
REMOTE_ADDR variables provided by the webserver. However, it
unconditionally overwrites any existing GIT_COMMITTER
variables, which may have been customized by site-specific
code in the webserver (or in a script wrapping http-backend).
Let's leave those variables intact if they already exist,
assuming that any such configuration was intentional. There
is a slight chance of a regression if somebody has set
GIT_COMMITTER_* for the entire webserver, not intending it
to leak through http-backend. We could protect against this
by passing the information in alternate variables. However,
it seems unlikely that anyone will care about that
regression, and there is value in the simplicity of using
the common variable names that are used elsewhere in git.
While we're tweaking the environment-handling in
http-backend, let's switch it to use argv_array to handle
the list of variables. That makes the memory management much
simpler.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Because snapshots can be large, you can save some bandwidth by
supporting caching via If-Modified-Since. This patch adds support for
the i-m-s request to git_snapshot() if the request is a commit.
Requests for snapshots of trees, which lack well defined timestamps,
are still handled as they were before.
Signed-off-by: W Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current gitweb only generates Last-Modified and handles
If-Modified-Since headers for the git_feed action. This patch breaks
the Last-Modified and If-Modified-Since handling code out from
git_feed into a new function exit_if_unmodified_since. This makes the
code easy to reuse for other actions.
Only gitweb actions which can easily calculate a modification time
should use exit_if_unmodified_since, as the goal is to balance local
processing time vs. upload bandwidth.
Signed-off-by: W Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git_feed() method was not setting a `Status` header unless it was
responding to an If-Modified-Since request with `304 Not Modified`.
Now, when it is serving successful responses, it sets status to `200
OK`.
Signed-off-by: W Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using this option git will search for all submodules that
have changed in the revisions to be send. It will then try to
push the currently checked out branch of each submodule.
This helps when a user has finished working on a change which
involves submodules and just wants to push everything in one go.
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows us to tell the user which submodules have not been pushed.
Additionally this is helpful when we want to automatically try to push
submodules that have not been pushed.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously it was not possible to iterate revisions twice using the
revision walking api. We add a reset_revision_walk() which clears the
used flags. This allows us to do multiple sequencial revision walks.
We add the appropriate calls to the existing submodule machinery doing
revision walks. This is done to avoid surprises if future code wants to
call these functions more than once during the processes lifetime.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improvements of zh_CN translations:
- Update translation for msg "Changes not staged for commit:".
- Remove unnecessary leading spaces for some messages.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
We simply discarded the fragments that we are not going to use upon seeing
a patch to update the submodule commit bound at path that we have not
checked out.
Free these fragments, not to leak them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
v1.7.9-8-g270a344 (config: stop using config_exclusive_filename) replaced
config_exclusive_filename with given_config_file. In one case this
resulted in a self-assignment, which is reported by clang as a warning.
Remove the useless code.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Found by running this command:
$ git ls-files -z|xargs -0 perl -0777 -n \
-e 'while (/\b(then?|[iao]n|i[fst]|but|f?or|at|and|[dt]o)\s+\1\b/gims)' \
-e ' {' \
-e ' $n = ($` =~ tr/\n/\n/ + 1);' \
-e ' ($v = $&) =~ s/\n/\\n/g;' \
-e ' print "$ARGV:$n:$v\n";' \
-e ' }'
Why not just git grep -E ...?
That wouldn't work then the doubled words are separated by a newline.
This is derived from a Makefile syntax-check rule in gnulib's maint.mk:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/top/maint.mk
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
am supports a number of pass-through options
to apply, like --exclude and --directory. Add
--include to this list.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When applying a patch that was based on an older release with "am -3", I
often wonder changes to which files need to be reviewed with extra care to
spot mismerges, but there is no good indication.
The paths that needed 3-way fallback can easily be obtained by comparing
the synthesized (partial) base tree and the current HEAD and noticing only
additions and modifications (removals only show the sparseness of the fake
ancestor tree, which is not useful information at all). List them in the
usual --name-status format.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is by far the largest piece of data, much larger than the patch and
fragment structures or the three name fields in the patch structure.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fn_table is used to record the result of earlier patch application in
case a hand-crafted input file contains multiple patches to the same file.
Both its string key (filename) and the contents are borrowed from "struct
patch" that represents the previous application in the same apply_patch()
call, and they do not leak, but the table itself was not freed properly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were all allocated in the heap by parsing the header parts of the
patch, but we did not bother to free them. Some used to share the memory
(e.g. copying def_name to old_name) so this is not just the matter of
adding three calls to free().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'master' of git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po:
Add url of Swedish l10n team in TEAMS file
l10n: Review zh_CN translation for Git 1.7.10-rc1
Update Swedish translation (724t0f0u).
l10n: Update zh_CN translation for Git 1.7.10-rc1
l10n: Update git.pot (1 new message)
$COLUMNS must be unset to not interfere with the tests. The tests
already ignore the terminal size because output is redirected to a
file, but COLUMNS overrides terminal size detection and changes the
test output away from the standard 80.
Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Overall review of the zh_CN translation:
- Distinguish the translations of index and stage, though they are the
same thing.
- Many other fixes, e.g., add the lost periods at the end of translated
sentences.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
- Update for 1.7.10-rc1.
- Add a missing -e when generaring the "Untracked files" message.
- Fixed some wordings after playing with the localized version.
There's currently no way to suppress the informational
"deleted branch..." or "set up tracking..." messages. This
patch provides a "-q" option to do so.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Like the "switched to..." message (which is already
suppressed by "-q"), this message is purely informational.
Let's silence it if the user asked us to be quiet.
This patch is slightly more than a one-liner, because we
have to teach create_branch to propagate the flag all the
way down to install_branch_config.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each ref structure contains a "nonfastforward" field which
is set during push to show whether the ref rewound history.
Originally this was a single bit, but it was changed in
f25950f (push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward
errors) to an enum differentiating a non-ff of the current
branch versus another branch.
However, we never actually set the member according to the
enum values, nor did we ever read it expecting anything but
a boolean value. But we did use the side effect of declaring
the enum constants to store those values in a totally
different integer variable. The code as-is isn't buggy, but
the enum declaration inside "struct ref" is somewhat
misleading.
Let's convert nonfastforward back into a single bit, and
then define the NON_FF_* constants closer to where they
would be used (they are returned via the "int *nonfastforward"
parameter to transport_push, so we can define them there).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
