* db/checkout: (21 commits)
checkout: error out when index is unmerged even with -m
checkout: show progress when checkout takes long time while switching branches
Add merge-subtree back
checkout: updates to tracking report
builtin-checkout.c: Remove unused prefix arguments in switch_branches path
checkout: work from a subdirectory
checkout: tone down the "forked status" diagnostic messages
Clean up reporting differences on branch switch
builtin-checkout.c: fix possible usage segfault
checkout: notice when the switched branch is behind or forked
Build in checkout
Move code to clean up after a branch change to branch.c
Library function to check for unmerged index entries
Use diff -u instead of diff in t7201
Move create_branch into a library file
Build-in merge-recursive
Add "skip_unmerged" option to unpack_trees.
Discard "deleted" cache entries after using them to update the working tree
Send unpack-trees debugging output to stderr
Add flag to make unpack_trees() not print errors.
...
Conflicts:
Makefile
This makes the name hash removal function (which really just sets the
bit that disables lookups of it) available to external routines, and
makes read_cache_unmerged() use it when it drops an unmerged entry from
the index.
It's renamed to remove_index_entry(), and we drop the (unused) 'istate'
argument.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We handled the case of removing and re-inserting cache entries badly,
which is something that merging commonly needs to do (removing the
different stages, and then re-inserting one of them as the merged
state).
We even had a rather ugly special case for this failure case, where
replace_index_entry() basically turned itself into a no-op if the new
and the old entries were the same, exactly because the hash routines
didn't handle it on their own.
So what this patch does is to not just have the UNHASHED bit, but a
HASHED bit too, and when you insert an entry into the name hash, that
involves:
- clear the UNHASHED bit, because now it's valid again for lookup
(which is really all that UNHASHED meant)
- if we're being lazy, we're done here (but we still want to clear the
UNHASHED bit regardless of lazy mode, since we can become unlazy
later, and so we need the UNHASHED bit to always be set correctly,
even if we never actually insert the entry into the hash list)
- if it was already hashed, we just leave it on the list
- otherwise mark it HASHED and insert it into the list
this all means that unhashing and rehashing a name all just works
automatically. Obviously, you cannot change the name of an entry (that
would be a serious bug), but nothing can validly do that anyway (you'd
have to allocate a new struct cache_entry anyway since the name length
could change), so that's not a new limitation.
The code actually gets simpler in many ways, although the lazy hashing
does mean that there are a few odd cases (ie something can be marked
unhashed even though it was never on the hash in the first place, and
isn't actually marked hashed!).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This creates a hash index of every single file added to the index.
Right now that hash index isn't actually used for much: I implemented a
"cache_name_exists()" function that uses it to efficiently look up a
filename in the index without having to do the O(logn) binary search,
but quite frankly, that's not why this patch is interesting.
No, the whole and only reason to create the hash of the filenames in the
index is that by modifying the hash function, you can fairly easily do
things like making it always hash equivalent names into the same bucket.
That, in turn, means that suddenly questions like "does this name exist
in the index under an _equivalent_ name?" becomes much much cheaper.
Guiding principles behind this patch:
- it shouldn't be too costly. In fact, my primary goal here was to
actually speed up "git commit" with a fully populated kernel tree, by
being faster at checking whether a file already existed in the index. I
did succeed, but only barely:
Best before:
[torvalds@woody linux]$ time git commit > /dev/null
real 0m0.255s
user 0m0.168s
sys 0m0.088s
Best after:
[torvalds@woody linux]$ time ~/git/git commit > /dev/null
real 0m0.233s
user 0m0.144s
sys 0m0.088s
so some things are actually faster (~8%).
Caveat: that's really the best case. Other things are invariably going
to be slightly slower, since we populate that index cache, and quite
frankly, few things really use it to look things up.
That said, the cost is really quite small. The worst case is probably
doing a "git ls-files", which will do very little except puopulate the
index, and never actually looks anything up in it, just lists it.
Before:
[torvalds@woody linux]$ time git ls-files > /dev/null
real 0m0.016s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.000s
After:
[torvalds@woody linux]$ time ~/git/git ls-files > /dev/null
real 0m0.021s
user 0m0.012s
sys 0m0.008s
and while the thing has really gotten relatively much slower, we're
still talking about something almost unmeasurable (eg 5ms). And that
really should be pretty much the worst case.
So we lose 5ms on one "benchmark", but win 22ms on another. Pick your
poison - this patch has the advantage that it will _likely_ speed up
the cases that are complex and expensive more than it slows down the
cases that are already so fast that nobody cares. But if you look at
relative speedups/slowdowns, it doesn't look so good.
- It should be simple and clean
The code may be a bit subtle (the reasons I do hash removal the way I
do etc), but it re-uses the existing hash.c files, so it really is
fairly small and straightforward apart from a few odd details.
Now, this patch on its own doesn't really do much, but I think it's worth
looking at, if only because if done correctly, the name hashing really can
make an improvement to the whole issue of "do we have a filename that
looks like this in the index already". And at least it gets real testing
by being used even by default (ie there is a real use-case for it even
without any insane filesystems).
NOTE NOTE NOTE! The current hash is a joke. I'm ashamed of it, I'm just
not ashamed of it enough to really care. I took all the numbers out of my
nether regions - I'm sure it's good enough that it works in practice, but
the whole point was that you can make a really much fancier hash that
hashes characters not directly, but by their upper-case value or something
like that, and thus you get a case-insensitive hash, while still keeping
the name and the index itself totally case sensitive.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This moves a common boolean expression into a helper function,
and makes the comparison between filesystem timestamp and index
timestamp done in the function in line with the other places.
st.st_mtime should be casted to (unsigned int) when compared to
an index timestamp ce_mtime.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is a D/F conflict if you want to add "foo/bar" to the index
when "foo" already exists. Also it is a conflict if you want to
add a file "foo" when "foo/bar" exists.
An exception is when the existing entry is there only to mark "I
used to be here but I am being removed". This is needed for
operations such as "git read-tree -m -u" that update the index
and then reflect the result to the work tree --- we need to
remember what to remove somewhere, and we use the index for
that. In such a case, an existing file "foo" is being removed
and we can create "foo/" directory and hang "bar" underneath it
without any conflict.
We used to use (ce->ce_mode == 0) to mark an entry that is being
removed, but (CE_REMOVE & ce->ce_flags) is used for that purpose
these days. An earlier commit forgot to convert the logic in
the code that checks D/F conflict condition.
The old code knew that "to be removed" entries cannot be at
higher stage and actively checked that condition, but it was an
unnecessary check. This patch removes the extra check as well.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Aside from the lstat(2) done for work tree files, there are
quite many lstat(2) calls in refname dwimming codepath. This
patch is not about reducing them.
* It adds a new ce_flag, CE_UPTODATE, that is meant to mark the
cache entries that record a regular file blob that is up to
date in the work tree. If somebody later walks the index and
wants to see if the work tree has changes, they do not have
to be checked with lstat(2) again.
* fill_stat_cache_info() marks the cache entry it just added
with CE_UPTODATE. This has the effect of marking the paths
we write out of the index and lstat(2) immediately as "no
need to lstat -- we know it is up-to-date", from quite a lot
fo callers:
- git-apply --index
- git-update-index
- git-checkout-index
- git-add (uses add_file_to_index())
- git-commit (ditto)
- git-mv (ditto)
* refresh_cache_ent() also marks the cache entry that are clean
with CE_UPTODATE.
* write_index is changed not to write CE_UPTODATE out to the
index file, because CE_UPTODATE is meant to be transient only
in core. For the same reason, CE_UPDATE is not written to
prevent an accident from happening.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We currently use lower 12-bit (masked with CE_NAMEMASK) in the
ce_flags field to store the length of the name in cache_entry,
without checking the length parameter given to
create_ce_flags(). This can make us store incorrect length.
Currently we are mostly protected by the fact that many
codepaths first copy the path in a variable of size PATH_MAX,
which typically is 4096 that happens to match the limit, but
that feels like a bug waiting to happen. Besides, that would
not allow us to shorten the width of CE_NAMEMASK to use the bits
for new flags.
This redefines the meaning of the name length stored in the
cache_entry. A name that does not fit is represented by storing
CE_NAMEMASK in the field, and the actual length needs to be
computed by actually counting the bytes in the name[] field.
This way, only the unusually long paths need to suffer.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This converts the index explicitly on read and write to its on-disk
format, allowing the in-core format to contain more flags, and be
simpler.
In particular, the in-core format is now host-endian (as opposed to the
on-disk one that is network endian in order to be able to be shared
across machines) and as a result we can dispense with all the
htonl/ntohl on accesses to the cache_entry fields.
This will make it easier to make use of various temporary flags that do
not exist in the on-disk format.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* jc/maint-add-sync-stat:
t2200: test more cases of "add -u"
git-add: make the entry stat-clean after re-adding the same contents
ce_match_stat, run_diff_files: use symbolic constants for readability
Conflicts:
builtin-add.c
Earlier in commit 0781b8a9b2
(add_file_to_index: skip rehashing if the cached stat already
matches), add_file_to_index() were taught not to re-add the path
if it already matches the index.
The change meant well, but was not executed quite right. It
used ie_modified() to see if the file on the work tree is really
different from the index, and skipped adding the contents if the
function says "not modified".
This was wrong. There are three possible comparison results
between the index and the file in the work tree:
- with lstat(2) we _know_ they are different. E.g. if the
length or the owner in the cached stat information is
different from the length we just obtained from lstat(2), we
can tell the file is modified without looking at the actual
contents.
- with lstat(2) we _know_ they are the same. The same length,
the same owner, the same everything (but this has a twist, as
described below).
- we cannot tell from lstat(2) information alone and need to go
to the filesystem to actually compare.
The last case arises from what we call 'racy git' situation,
that can be caused with this sequence:
$ echo hello >file
$ git add file
$ echo aeiou >file ;# the same length
If the second "echo" is done within the same filesystem
timestamp granularity as the first "echo", then the timestamp
recorded by "git add" and the timestamp we get from lstat(2)
will be the same, and we can mistakenly say the file is not
modified. The path is called 'racily clean'. We need to
reliably detect racily clean paths are in fact modified.
To solve this problem, when we write out the index, we mark the
index entry that has the same timestamp as the index file itself
(that is the time from the point of view of the filesystem) to
tell any later code that does the lstat(2) comparison not to
trust the cached stat info, and ie_modified() then actually goes
to the filesystem to compare the contents for such a path.
That's all good, but it should not be used for this "git add"
optimization, as the goal of "git add" is to actually update the
path in the index and make it stat-clean. With the false
optimization, we did _not_ cause any data loss (after all, what
we failed to do was only to update the cached stat information),
but it made the following sequence leave the file stat dirty:
$ echo hello >file
$ git add file
$ echo hello >file ;# the same contents
$ git add file
The solution is not to use ie_modified() which goes to the
filesystem to see if it is really clean, but instead use
ie_match_stat() with "assume racily clean paths are dirty"
option, to force re-adding of such a path.
There was another problem with "git add -u". The codepath
shares the same issue when adding the paths that are found to be
modified, but in addition, it asked "git diff-files" machinery
run_diff_files() function (which is "git diff-files") to list
the paths that are modified. But "git diff-files" machinery
uses the same ie_modified() call so that it does not report
racily clean _and_ actually clean paths as modified, which is
not what we want.
The patch allows the callers of run_diff_files() to pass the
same "assume racily clean paths are dirty" option, and makes
"git-add -u" codepath to use that option, to discover and re-add
racily clean _and_ actually clean paths.
We could further optimize on top of this patch to differentiate
the case where the path really needs re-adding (i.e. the content
of the racily clean entry was indeed different) and the case
where only the cached stat information needs to be refreshed
(i.e. the racily clean entry was actually clean), but I do not
think it is worth it.
This patch applies to maint and all the way up.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ce_match_stat() can be told:
(1) to ignore CE_VALID bit (used under "assume unchanged" mode)
and perform the stat comparison anyway;
(2) not to perform the contents comparison for racily clean
entries and report mismatch of cached stat information;
using its "option" parameter. Give them symbolic constants.
Similarly, run_diff_files() can be told not to report anything
on removed paths. Also give it a symbolic constant for that.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Yet more 1.5.3.5 fixes mentioned in release notes
cvsserver: Use exit 1 instead of die when req_Root fails.
git-blame shouldn't crash if run in an unmerged tree
git-config: print error message if the config file cannot be read
fixing output of non-fast-forward output of post-receive-email
If we are in the middle of resolving a merge conflict there may be
one or more files whose entries in the index represent an unmerged
state (index entries in the higher-order stages).
Attempting to run git-blame on any file in such a working directory
resulted in "fatal: internal error: ce_mode is 0" as we use the magic
marker for an unmerged entry is 0 (set up by things like diff-lib.c's
do_diff_cache() and builtin-read-tree.c's read_tree_unmerged())
and the ce_match_stat_basic() function gets upset about this.
I'm not entirely sure that the whole "ce_mode = 0" case is a good
idea to begin with, and maybe the right thing to do is to remove
that horrid freakish special case, but removing the internal error
seems to be the simplest fix for now.
Linus
[sp: Thanks to Björn Steinbrink for the test case]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The function make_cache_entry() is too useful to be hidden away in
merge-recursive. So move it to libgit.a (exposing it via cache.h).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function cannot fail, make it void. Also make write_one act on a
const char* instead of a char*.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/cachetree:
Simplify cache API
git-format-patch --in-reply-to: accept <message@id> with angle brackets
git-add -u: do not barf on type changes
Remove duplicate note about removing commits with git-filter-branch
git-clone: improve error message if curl program is missing or not executable
git.el: Allow the add and remove commands to be applied to ignored files.
git.el: Allow selecting whether to display uptodate/unknown/ignored files.
git.el: Keep the status buffer sorted by filename.
hooks--update: Explicitly check for all zeros for a deleted ref.
Earlier, add_file_to_index() invalidated the path in the cache-tree
but remove_file_from_cache() did not, and the user of the latter
needed to invalidate the entry himself. This led to a few bugs due to
missed invalidate calls already. This patch makes the management of
cache-tree less error prone by making more invalidate calls from lower
level cache API functions.
The rules are:
- If you are going to write the index, you should either maintain
cache_tree correctly.
- If you cannot, alternatively you can remove the entire cache_tree
by calling cache_tree_free() before you call write_cache().
- When you modify the index, cache_tree_invalidate_path() should be
called with the path you are modifying, to discard the entry from
the cache-tree structure.
- The following cache API functions exported from read-cache.c (and
the macro whose names have "cache" instead of "index")
automatically call cache_tree_invalidate_path() for you:
- remove_file_from_index();
- add_file_to_index();
- add_index_entry();
You can modify the index bypassing the above API functions
(e.g. find an existing cache entry from the index and modify it in
place). You need to call cache_tree_invalidate_path() yourself in
such a case.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function make_cache_entry() is too useful to be hidden away in
merge-recursive. So move it to libgit.a (exposing it via cache.h).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows to refresh only a subset of the project files, based on
the specified pathspecs.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The read_tree() function is called only from the call chain to
run "git diff --cached" (this includes the internal call made by
git-runstatus to run_diff_index()). The function vacates stage
without any funky "merge" magic. The caller then goes and
compares stage #1 entries from the tree with stage #0 entries
from the original index.
When adding the cache entries this way, it used the general
purpose add_cache_entry(). This function looks for an existing
entry to replace or if there is none to find where to insert the
new entry, resolves D/F conflict and all the other things.
For the purpose of reading entries into an empty stage, none of
that processing is needed. We can instead append everything and
then sort the result at the end.
This commit changes read_tree() to first make sure that there is
no existing cache entries at specified stage, and if that is the
case, it runs add_cache_entry() with ADD_CACHE_JUST_APPEND flag
(new), and then sort the resulting cache using qsort().
This new flag tells add_cache_entry() to omit all the checks
such as "Does this path already exist? Does adding this path
remove other existing entries because it turns a directory to a
file?" and instead append the given cache entry straight at the
end of the active cache. The caller of course is expected to
sort the resulting cache at the end before using the result.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier commit 366bfcb6 broke git-add by moving read_cache()
call down, because it wanted the directory walking code to grab
paths that are already in the index. The change serves its
purpose, but introduces a regression because the responsibility
of avoiding unnecessary reindexing by matching the cached stat
is shifted nowhere.
This makes it the job of add_file_to_index() function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a merge left unmerged entries, git add failed to pick up the
file mode from the index, when core.filemode == 0. If more than one
unmerged entry is there, the order of stage preference is 2, 1, 3.
Noticed by Johannes Sixt.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change 'opens' the code block which maps the index file into
memory, making the code clearer and easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes all low-level functions defined in read-cache.c to
take an explicit index_state structure as their first parameter,
to specify which index to work on. These functions
traditionally operated on "the_index" and were named foo_cache();
the counterparts this patch introduces are called foo_index().
The traditional foo_cache() functions are made into macros that
give "the_index" to their corresponding foo_index() functions.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This defines a index_state structure and moves index-related
global variables into it. Currently there is one instance of
it, the_index, and everybody accesses it, so there is no code
change.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The code to match up index entries with the filesystem was stupidly
broken. We shouldn't compare the filesystem stat() information with
S_IFDIRLNK, since that's purely a git-internal value, and not what the
filesystem uses (on the filesystem, it's just a regular directory).
Also, don't bother to make the stat() time comparisons etc for DIRLNK
entries in ce_match_stat_basic(), since we do an exact match for these
things, and the hints in the stat data simply doesn't matter.
This fixes "git status" with submodules that haven't been checked out in
the supermodule.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is the promised cleaned-up version of teaching directory traversal
(ie the "read_directory()" logic) about subprojects. That makes "git add"
understand to add/update subprojects.
It now knows to look at the index file to see if a directory is marked as
a subproject, and use that as information as whether it should be recursed
into or not.
It also generally cleans up the handling of directory entries when
traversing the working tree, by splitting up the decision-making process
into small functions of their own, and adding a fair number of comments.
Finally, it teaches "add_file_to_cache()" that directory names can have
slashes at the end, since the directory traversal adds them to make the
difference between a file and a directory clear (it always did that, but
my previous too-ugly-to-apply subproject patch had a totally different
path for subproject directories and avoided the slash for that case).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This fixes a total thinko in my original series: subprojects do *not* sort
like directories, because the index is sorted purely by full pathname, and
since a subproject shows up in the index as a normal NUL-terminated
string, it never has the issues with sorting with the '/' at the end.
So if you have a subproject "proj" and a file "proj.c", the subproject
sorts alphabetically before the file in the index (and must thus also sort
that way in a tree object, since trees sort as the index).
In contrast, it you have two files "proj/file" and "proj.c", the "proj.c"
will sort alphabetically before "proj/file" in the index. The index
itself, of course, does not actually contain an entry "proj/", but in the
*tree* that gets written out, the tree entry "proj" will sort after the
file entry "proj.c", which is the only real magic sorting rule.
In other words: the magic sorting rule only affects tree entries, and
*only* affects tree entries that point to other trees (ie are of the type
S_IFDIR).
Anyway, that thinko just means that we should remove the special case to
make S_ISDIRLNK entries sort like S_ISDIR entries. They don't. They sort
like normal files.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This teaches the really fundamental core SHA1 object handling routines
about gitlinks. We can compare trees with gitlinks in them (although we
can not actually generate patches for them yet - just raw git diffs),
and they show up as commits in "git ls-tree".
We also know to compare gitlinks as if they were directories (ie the
normal "sort as trees" rules apply).
[jc: amended a cut&paste error]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'jc/read-tree-df' (early part):
Fix switching to a branch with D/F when current branch has file D.
Fix twoway_merge that passed d/f conflict marker to merged_entry().
Fix read-tree --prefix=dir/.
unpack-trees: get rid of *indpos parameter.
unpack_trees.c: pass unpack_trees_options structure to keep_entry() as well.
add_cache_entry(): removal of file foo does not conflict with foo/bar
This function was not called "add_file_to_cache()" only because
an ancient program, update-cache, used that name as an internal
function name that does something slightly different. Now that
is gone, we can take over the better name.
The plan is to name all functions that operate on the default
index xxx_cache(). Later patches create a variant of them that
take an explicit parameter xxx_index(), and then turn
xxx_cache() functions into macros that use "the_index".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The function refresh_cache() is the only user of cache_errno
that switches its behaviour based on what internal function
refresh_cache_entry() finds; pass the error status back in a
parameter passed down to it, to get rid of the global variable
cache_errno.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This error message should not usually trigger, but the function
make_cache_entry() called by add_cacheinfo() can return early
without calling into refresh_cache_entry() that sets cache_errno.
Also the error message had a wrong function name reported, and
it did not say anything about which path failed either.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some systems have sizeof(off_t) == 8 while sizeof(size_t) == 4.
This implies that we are able to access and work on files whose
maximum length is around 2^63-1 bytes, but we can only malloc or
mmap somewhat less than 2^32-1 bytes of memory.
On such a system an implicit conversion of off_t to size_t can cause
the size_t to wrap, resulting in unexpected and exciting behavior.
Right now we are working around all gcc warnings generated by the
-Wshorten-64-to-32 option by passing the off_t through xsize_t().
In the future we should make xsize_t on such problematic platforms
detect the wrapping and die if such a file is accessed.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some file systems that can host git repositories and their working copies
do not support symbolic links. But then if the repository contains a symbolic
link, it is impossible to check out the working copy.
This patch enables partial support of symbolic links so that it is possible
to check out a working copy on such a file system. A new flag
core.symlinks (which is true by default) can be set to false to indicate
that the filesystem does not support symbolic links. In this case, symbolic
links that exist in the trees are checked out as small plain files, and
checking in modifications of these files preserve the symlink property in
the database (as long as an entry exists in the index).
Of course, this does not magically make symbolic links work on such defective
file systems; hence, this solution does not help if the working copy relies
on that an entry is a real symbolic link.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We currently have two parallel notation for dealing with object types
in the code: a string and a numerical value. One of them is obviously
redundent, and the most used one requires more stack space and a bunch
of strcmp() all over the place.
This is an initial step for the removal of the version using a char array
found in object reading code paths. The patch is unfortunately large but
there is no sane way to split it in smaller parts without breaking the
system.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When we do not trust executable bit from lstat(2), we copied
existing ce_mode bits without checking if the filesystem object
is a regular file (which is the only thing we apply the "trust
executable bit" business) nor if the blob in the index is a
regular file (otherwise, we should do the same as registering a
new regular file, which is to default non-executable).
Noticed by Johannes Sixt.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We have a number of badly checked write() calls. Often we are
expecting write() to write exactly the size we requested or fail,
this fails to handle interrupts or short writes. Switch to using
the new write_in_full(). Otherwise we at a minimum need to check
for EINTR and EAGAIN, where this is appropriate use xwrite().
Note, the changes to config handling are much larger and handled
in the next patch in the sequence.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When I converted the mmap() call to xmmap() I failed to cleanup the
way this routine handles errors and left some crufty code behind.
This is a small cleanup, suggested by Johannes.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In some cases we did not even bother to check the return value of
mmap() and just assume it worked. This is bad, because if we are
out of virtual address space the kernel returned MAP_FAILED and we
would attempt to dereference that address, segfaulting without any
real error output to the user.
We are replacing all calls to mmap() with xmmap() and moving all
MAP_FAILED checking into that single location. If a mmap call
fails we try to release enough least-recently-used pack windows
to possibly succeed, then retry the mmap() attempt. If we cannot
mmap even after releasing pack memory then we die() as none of our
callers have any reasonable recovery strategy for a failed mmap.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When replacing an existing file A with a directory A that has a
file A/B in it in the index, 'update-index --replace --add A/B'
did not properly remove the file to make room for the new
directory.
There was a trivial logic error, most likely a cut & paste one,
dating back to quite early days of git.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
