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Junio C Hamano
57f75f3131 Merge branch 'cn/maint-branch-with-bad' into maint
* cn/maint-branch-with-bad:
  branch: don't assume the merge filter ref exists

Conflicts:
	t/t3200-branch.sh
2012-03-04 22:17:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3ecd0c8b4d Merge branch 'jn/maint-gitweb-invalid-regexp' into maint
* jn/maint-gitweb-invalid-regexp:
  gitweb: Handle invalid regexp in regexp search
2012-03-04 22:17:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a09a0c2709 Merge branch 'jk/maint-avoid-streaming-filtered-contents' into maint
* jk/maint-avoid-streaming-filtered-contents:
  do not stream large files to pack when filters are in use
  teach dry-run convert_to_git not to require a src buffer
  teach convert_to_git a "dry run" mode
2012-03-04 22:16:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
26f1e9bd68 Merge branch 'tr/maint-bundle-long-subject' into maint
* tr/maint-bundle-long-subject:
  t5704: match tests to modern style
  strbuf: improve strbuf_get*line documentation
  bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary commits
  bundle: put strbuf_readline_fd in strbuf.c with adjustments
2012-03-04 22:16:30 -08:00
Michael J Gruber
78ed1d2d63 t0300: work around bug in dash 0.5.6
The construct 'while IFS== read' makes dash 0.5.6 execute
read without changing IFS, which results in test breakages
all over the place in t0300.  Neither dash 0.5.5.1 and older
nor dash 0.5.7 and newer are affected: The problem was
introduded resp. fixed by the commits

  55c46b7 ([BUILTIN] Honor tab as IFS whitespace when
           splitting fields in readcmd, 2009-08-11)

  1d806ac ([VAR] Do not poplocalvars prematurely on regular
           utilities, 2010-05-27)

in http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/dash/dash.git

Putting 'IFS==' before that line makes all versions of dash
work.

This looks like a dash bug, not a misinterpretation of the
standard. However, it's worth working around for two
reasons. One, this version of dash was released in Fedora
14-16, so the bug is found in the wild. And two, at least
one other shell, Solaris /bin/sh, choked on this by
persisting IFS after the read invocation. That is not a
shell we usually care about, and I think this use of IFS is
acceptable by POSIX (which allows other behavior near
"special builtins", but "read" is not one of those). But it
seems that this may be a subtle, not-well-tested case for
some shells. Given that the workaround is so simple, it's
worth just being defensive.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-02 23:06:08 -08:00
Tom Grennan
fe6c64ab0b t5512 (ls-remote): modernize style
Prepare expected output inside test_expect_success that uses it.
Also remove excess blank lines.

Signed-off-by: Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-02 22:26:34 -08:00
Stefano Lattarini
661bfd13b4 tests: fix spurious error when run directly with Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
If any test script is run directly with Solaris 10 /usr/xpg4/bin/sh or
/bin/ksh, it fails spuriously with a message like:

  t0000-basic.sh[31]: unset: bad argument count

This happens because those shells bail out when encountering a call to
"unset" with no arguments, and such unset call could take place in
'test-lib.sh'.  Fix that issue, and add a proper comment to ensure we
don't regress in this respect.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-02 14:41:06 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
36612e4daf gitweb: Handle invalid regexp in regexp search
When using regexp search ('sr' parameter / $search_use_regexp variable
is true), check first that regexp is valid.

Without this patch we would get an error from Perl during search (if
searching is performed by gitweb), or highlighting matches substring
(if applicable), if user provided invalid regexp... which means broken
HTML, with error page (including HTTP headers) generated after gitweb
already produced some output.

Add test that illustrates such error: for example for regexp "*\.git"
we would get the following error:

  Quantifier follows nothing in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/* <-- HERE \.git/
  at /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi line 3084.

Reported-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-28 11:45:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e22c522730 Merge branch 'jn/gitweb-unborn-head' into maint
* jn/gitweb-unborn-head:
  gitweb: Fix "heads" view when there is no current branch
2012-02-27 15:33:26 -08:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
6c41e97557 branch: don't assume the merge filter ref exists
print_ref_list looks up the merge_filter_ref and assumes that a valid
pointer is returned. When the object doesn't exist, it tries to
dereference a NULL pointer. This can be the case when git branch
--merged is given an argument that isn't a valid commit name.

Check whether the lookup returns a NULL pointer and die with an error
if it does. Add a test, while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-27 11:35:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
660e20f5c7 Merge branch 'jc/add-refresh-unmerged' into maint
* jc/add-refresh-unmerged:
  refresh_index: do not show unmerged path that is outside pathspec
2012-02-26 17:06:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4d06691eec Sync with 1.7.8.5 2012-02-26 16:42:35 -08:00
Jim Meyering
f0c5793b37 am: don't infloop for an empty input file
git-am.sh's check_patch_format function would attempt to preview
the patch to guess its format, but would go into an infinite loop
when the patch file happened to be empty.  The solution: exit the
loop when "read" fails, not when the line var, "$l1" becomes empty.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-26 16:32:54 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
09ccbd34f4 git-p4: remove bash-ism in t9800
This works in both bash and dash:

    $ bash -c 'VAR=1 env' | grep VAR
    VAR=1
    $ dash -c 'VAR=1 env' | grep VAR
    VAR=1

But environment variables assigned this way are not necessarily propagated
through a function in POSIX compliant shells:

    $ bash -c 'f() { "$@"
    }; VAR=1 f "env"' | grep VAR
    VAR=1
    $ dash -c 'f() { "$@"
    }; VAR=1 f "env"' | grep VAR

Fix constructs like this, in particular, setting variables through
test_must_fail.

Based-on-patch-by: Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-26 16:20:18 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
8d93a5ac68 git-p4: remove bash-ism in t9809
Plain old $# works to count the number of arguments in
either bash or dash, even if the arguments have spaces.

Based-on-patch-by: Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-26 16:19:22 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
543987bd47 git-p4: fix submit regression with clientSpec and subdir clone
When the --use-client-spec is given to clone, and the clone
path is a subset of the full tree as specified in the client,
future submits will go to the wrong place.

Factor out getClientSpec() so both clone/sync and submit can
use it.  Introduce getClientRoot() that is needed for the client
spec case, and use it instead of p4Where().

Test the five possible submit behaviors (add, modify, rename,
copy, delete).

Reported-by: Laurent Charrière <lcharriere@promptu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-26 16:14:29 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
a93d33ee7b git-p4: set useClientSpec variable on initial clone
If --use-client-spec was given, set the matching configuration
variable.  This is necessary to ensure that future submits
work properly.

The alternatives of requiring the user to set it, or providing
a command-line option on every submit, are error prone.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-26 16:14:20 -08:00
Jeff King
4f22b1015d do not stream large files to pack when filters are in use
Because git's object format requires us to specify the
number of bytes in the object in its header, we must know
the size before streaming a blob into the object database.
This is not a problem when adding a regular file, as we can
get the size from stat(). However, when filters are in use
(such as autocrlf, or the ident, filter, or eol
gitattributes), we have no idea what the ultimate size will
be.

The current code just punts on the whole issue and ignores
filter configuration entirely for files larger than
core.bigfilethreshold. This can generate confusing results
if you use filters for large binary files, as the filter
will suddenly stop working as the file goes over a certain
size.  Rather than try to handle unknown input sizes with
streaming, this patch just turns off the streaming
optimization when filters are in use.

This has a slight performance regression in a very specific
case: if you have autocrlf on, but no gitattributes, a large
binary file will avoid the streaming code path because we
don't know beforehand whether it will need conversion or
not. But if you are handling large binary files, you should
be marking them as such via attributes (or at least not
using autocrlf, and instead marking your text files as
such). And the flip side is that if you have a large
_non_-binary file, there is a correctness improvement;
before we did not apply the conversion at all.

The first half of the new t1051 script covers these failures
on input. The second half tests the matching output code
paths. These already work correctly, and do not need any
adjustment.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-24 14:18:20 -08:00
Thomas Rast
8a557bb77f t5704: match tests to modern style
The test did not adhere to the current style on several counts:

 . empty lines around the test blocks, but within the test string
 . ': > file' or even just '> file' with an extra space
 . inconsistent indentation
 . hand-rolled commits instead of using test_commit

Fix all of them.

There's a catch to the last point: test_commit creates a tag, which the
original test did not create.  We still change it to test_commit, and
explicitly delete the tags, so as to highlight that the test relies on not
having them.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-23 13:53:27 -08:00
Thomas Rast
bc2fed496b bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary commits
The first part of the bundle header contains the boundary commits, and
could be approximated by

  # v2 git bundle
  $(git rev-list --pretty=oneline --boundary <ARGS> | grep ^-)

git-bundle actually spawns exactly this rev-list invocation, and does
the grepping internally.

There was a subtle bug in the latter step: it used fgets() with a
1024-byte buffer.  If the user has sufficiently long subjects (e.g.,
by not adhering to the git oneline-subject convention in the first
place), the 'oneline' format can easily overflow the buffer.  fgets()
then returns the rest of the line in the next call(s).  If one of
these remaining parts started with '-', git-bundle would mistakenly
insert it into the bundle thinking it was a boundary commit.

Fix it by using strbuf_getwholeline() instead, which handles arbitrary
line lengths correctly.

Note that on the receiving side in parse_bundle_header() we were
already using strbuf_getwholeline_fd(), so that part is safe.

Reported-by: Jannis Pohlmann <jannis.pohlmann@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-23 09:36:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e147e9693a Merge branch 'cb/receive-pack-keep-errors' into maint
* cb/receive-pack-keep-errors:
  do not override receive-pack errors
2012-02-21 15:14:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c7707a4354 Merge branch 'cb/transfer-no-progress' into maint
* cb/transfer-no-progress:
  push/fetch/clone --no-progress suppresses progress output
2012-02-21 15:14:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0cfba96121 Merge branch 'jk/git-dir-lookup' into maint
* jk/git-dir-lookup:
  standardize and improve lookup rules for external local repos
2012-02-21 15:13:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1e2545c687 Merge branch 'cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object' into maint
* cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object:
  git rev-list: fix invalid typecast
2012-02-21 14:59:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c1ed5e6b14 Merge branch 'cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable' into maint
* cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable:
  t5541: check error message against the real port number used
2012-02-21 14:57:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6f61eb2017 Merge branch 'jk/grep-binary-attribute' into maint
* jk/grep-binary-attribute:
  grep: pre-load userdiff drivers when threaded
  grep: load file data after checking binary-ness
  grep: respect diff attributes for binary-ness
  grep: cache userdiff_driver in grep_source
  grep: drop grep_buffer's "name" parameter
  convert git-grep to use grep_source interface
  grep: refactor the concept of "grep source" into an object
  grep: move sha1-reading mutex into low-level code
  grep: make locking flag global
2012-02-21 14:57:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
093b194cc5 Merge branch 'nd/diffstat-gramnum' into maint
* nd/diffstat-gramnum:
  Use correct grammar in diffstat summary line
2012-02-21 14:56:39 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
fc8fcd27e6 gitweb: Fix 'grep' search for multiple matches in file
Commit ff7f218 (gitweb: Fix file links in "grep" search, 2012-01-05),
added $file_href variable, to reduce duplication and have the fix
applied in single place.

Unfortunately it made variable defined inside the loop, not taking into
account the fact that $file_href was set only if file changed.
Therefore for files with multiple matches $file_href was undefined for
second and subsequent matches.

Fix this bug by moving $file_href declaration outside loop.

Adds tests for almost all forms of sarch in gitweb, which were missing
from testuite.  Note that it only tests if there are no warnings, and
it doesn't check that gitweb finds what it should find.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-19 22:21:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3d1f148c33 refresh_index: do not show unmerged path that is outside pathspec
When running "git add --refresh <pathspec>", we incorrectly showed the
path that is unmerged even if it is outside the specified pathspec, even
though we did honor pathspec and refreshed only the paths that matched.

Note that this cange does not affect "git update-index --refresh"; for
hysterical raisins, it does not take a pathspec (it takes real paths) and
more importantly itss command line options are parsed and executed one by
one as they are encountered, so "git update-index --refresh foo" means
"first refresh the index, and then update the entry 'foo' by hashing the
contents in file 'foo'", not "refresh only entry 'foo'".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 10:11:05 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
fd49e56af6 gitweb: Fix "heads" view when there is no current branch
In a repository whose HEAD points to an unborn branch with no commits,
"heads" view and "summary" view (which shows what is shown in "heads"
view) compared the object names of commits at the tip of branches with the
output from "git rev-parse HEAD", which caused comparison of a string with
undef and resulted in a warning in the server log.

This can happen if non-bare repository (with default 'master' branch)
is updated not via committing but by other means like push to it, or
Gerrit.  It can happen also just after running "git checkout --orphan
<new branch>" but before creating any new commit on this branch.

Rewrite the comparison so that it also works when $head points at nothing;
in such a case, no branch can be "the current branch", add a test for it.
While at it, rename local variable $head to $head_at, as it points to
current commit rather than current branch name (HEAD contents).

The code still incorrectly shows all branches that point at the same
commit as what HEAD points as "the current branch", even when HEAD is
detached. Fixing this bug is outside the scope of this patch.

Reported-by: Rajesh Boyapati
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 08:25:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
147d071816 Merge branch 'jc/checkout-out-of-unborn' into maint
* jc/checkout-out-of-unborn:
  git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn branch
2012-02-16 14:18:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6c63ab3ca7 Merge branch 'jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a' into maint
* jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a:
  commit: ignore intent-to-add entries instead of refusing

Conflicts:
	cache-tree.c
2012-02-16 14:08:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a95750c4e8 Merge branch 'jk/maint-tag-show-fixes' into maint
* jk/maint-tag-show-fixes:
  tag: do not show non-tag contents with "-n"
  tag: die when listing missing or corrupt objects
  tag: fix output of "tag -n" when errors occur

Conflicts:
	t/t7004-tag.sh
2012-02-13 23:31:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
42e283a1bf Merge branch 'jn/merge-no-edit-fix' into maint
* jn/merge-no-edit-fix:
  merge: do not launch an editor on "--no-edit $tag"
2012-02-13 23:24:02 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
ef7e93d908 do not override receive-pack errors
Receive runs rev-list --verify-objects in order to detect missing
objects. However, such errors are ignored and overridden later.
Instead, consequently ignore all update commands for which an error has
already been detected.

Some tests in t5504 are obsoleted by this change, because invalid
objects are detected even if fsck is not enabled. Instead, they now test
for different error messages depending on whether or not fsck is turned
on. A better fix would be to force a corruption that will be detected by
fsck but not by rev-list.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-13 13:29:08 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
d202a513a4 t5541: check error message against the real port number used
Otherwise the test cannot be run with custom port set to LIB_HTTPD_PORT.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-13 13:25:40 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
01fdc21f6e push/fetch/clone --no-progress suppresses progress output
By default, progress output is disabled if stderr is not a terminal.
The --progress option can be used to force progress output anyways.
Conversely, --no-progress does not force progress output. In particular,
if stderr is a terminal, progress output is enabled.

This is unintuitive. Change --no-progress to force output off.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-13 13:06:53 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
cb8da70547 git rev-list: fix invalid typecast
git rev-list passes rev_list_info, not rev_list objects. Without this
fix, rev-list enables or disables the --verify-objects option depending
on a read from an undefined memory location.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-13 12:49:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
87cb3b82a4 Merge branch 'jc/parse-date-raw' into maint
* jc/parse-date-raw:
  parse_date(): '@' prefix forces git-timestamp
  parse_date(): allow ancient git-timestamp
2012-02-13 11:42:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5a62b531ae Merge branch 'jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge' into maint
* jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge:
  merge: do not create a signed tag merge under --ff-only option
2012-02-13 11:42:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8eb865ba8a Merge branch 'jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance' into maint
* jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance:
  branch --edit-description: protect against mistyped branch name
  tests: add write_script helper function
2012-02-13 11:42:07 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
1f5ad6b1a7 t: use sane_unset instead of unset
Change several tests to use the sane_unset function introduced in
v1.7.3.1-35-g00648ba instead of the built-in unset function.

This fixes a failure I was having on t9130-git-svn-authors-file.sh on
Solaris, and prevents several other issues from occurring.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-13 02:29:15 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
d24fbca7a5 Remove Git's support for smoke testing
I'm no longer running the Git smoke testing service at
smoke.git.nix.is due to Smolder being a fragile piece of software not
having time to follow through on making it easy for third parties to
run and submit their own smoke tests.

So remove the support in Git for sending smoke tests to
smoke.git.nix.is, it's still easy to modify the test suite to submit
smokes somewhere else.

This reverts the following commits:

    Revert "t/README: Add SMOKE_{COMMENT,TAGS}= to smoke_report target" -- e38efac87d
    Revert "t/README: Document the Smoke testing" -- d15e9ebc5c
    Revert "t/Makefile: Create test-results dir for smoke target" -- 617344d77b
    Revert "tests: Infrastructure for Git smoke testing" -- b6b84d1b74

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-13 02:29:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4fed4c809a Merge branch 'jc/maint-request-pull-for-tag' into maint
* jc/maint-request-pull-for-tag:
  request-pull: explicitly ask tags/$name to be pulled
2012-02-10 13:59:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
184a7aa7bf Merge branch 'tr/grep-l-with-decoration' into maint
* tr/grep-l-with-decoration:
  grep: fix -l/-L interaction with decoration lines
2012-02-10 13:59:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5febbda4e7 Merge branch 'jl/submodule-re-add' into maint
* jl/submodule-re-add:
  submodule add: fix breakage when re-adding a deep submodule
2012-02-10 13:59:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
38ca63f3c0 Merge branch 'da/maint-mergetool-twoway' into maint
* da/maint-mergetool-twoway:
  mergetool: Provide an empty file when needed
2012-02-10 13:59:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3adab6f3a7 merge: do not launch an editor on "--no-edit $tag"
When the user explicitly asked us not to, don't launch an editor.

But do everything else the same way as the "edit" case, i.e. leave the
comment with verification result in the log template and record the
mergesig in the resulting merge commit for later inspection.

Based on initiail analysis by Jonathan Nieder.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-09 13:30:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
31fd8d72f2 tag: do not show non-tag contents with "-n"
"git tag -n" did not check the type of the object it is reading the top n
lines from. At least, avoid showing the beginning of trees and blobs when
dealing with lightweight tags that point at them.

As the payload of a tag and a commit look similar in that they both start
with a header block, which is skipped for the purpose of "-n" output,
followed by human readable text, allow the message of commit objects to be
shown just like the contents of tag objects. This avoids regression for
people who have been using "tag -n" to show the log messages of commits
that are pointed at by lightweight tags.

Test script is from Jeff King.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-08 20:44:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3f6d56de5f commit: ignore intent-to-add entries instead of refusing
Originally, "git add -N" was introduced to help users from forgetting to
add new files to the index before they ran "git commit -a".  As an attempt
to help them further so that they do not forget to say "-a", "git commit"
to commit the index as-is was taught to error out, reminding the user that
they may have forgotten to add the final contents of the paths before
running the command.

This turned out to be a false "safety" that is useless.  If the user made
changes to already tracked paths and paths added with "git add -N", and
then ran "git add" to register the final contents of the paths added with
"git add -N", "git commit" will happily create a commit out of the index,
without including the local changes made to the already tracked paths. It
was not a useful "safety" measure to prevent "forgetful" mistakes from
happening.

It turns out that this behaviour is not just a useless false "safety", but
actively hurts use cases of "git add -N" that were discovered later and
have become popular, namely, to tell Git to be aware of these paths added
by "git add -N", so that commands like "git status" and "git diff" would
include them in their output, even though the user is not interested in
including them in the next commit they are going to make.

Fix this ancient UI mistake, and instead make a commit from the index
ignoring the paths added by "git add -N" without adding real contents.

Based on the work by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, and helped by injection of
sanity from Jonathan Nieder and others on the Git mailing list.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-07 12:14:40 -08:00