"git describe" takes a commit and gives it a name based on tags in
its neighbourhood. The command does take a commit-ish but when
given a tag that points at a commit, it should dereference the tag
before computing the name for the commit.
As the whole processing is internally delegated to name-rev, if we
unwrap tags down to the underlying commit when invoking name-rev, it
will make the name-rev issue an error message based on the unwrapped
object name (i.e. either 40-hex object name, or "$tag^0") that is
different from what the end-user gave to the command when the commit
cannot be described. Introduce an internal option --peel-tag to the
name-rev to tell it to unwrap a tag in its input from the command
line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of using a hand allocated args[] array, use argv-array API
to manage the dynamically created list of arguments when invoking
name-rev.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Define memory ownership and lifetime rules for what for-each-ref
feeds to its callbacks (in short, "you do not own it, so make a
copy if you want to keep it").
* mh/reflife: (25 commits)
refs: document the lifetime of the args passed to each_ref_fn
register_ref(): make a copy of the bad reference SHA-1
exclude_existing(): set existing_refs.strdup_strings
string_list_add_refs_by_glob(): add a comment about memory management
string_list_add_one_ref(): rename first parameter to "refname"
show_head_ref(): rename first parameter to "refname"
show_head_ref(): do not shadow name of argument
add_existing(): do not retain a reference to sha1
do_fetch(): clean up existing_refs before exiting
do_fetch(): reduce scope of peer_item
object_array_entry: fix memory handling of the name field
find_first_merges(): remove unnecessary code
find_first_merges(): initialize merges variable using initializer
fsck: don't put a void*-shaped peg in a char*-shaped hole
object_array_remove_duplicates(): rewrite to reduce copying
revision: use object_array_filter() in implementation of gc_boundary()
object_array: add function object_array_filter()
revision: split some overly-long lines
cmd_diff(): make it obvious which cases are exclusive of each other
cmd_diff(): rename local variable "list" -> "entry"
...
Do not retain a reference to the refname passed to the each_ref_fn
callback get_name(), because there is no guarantee of the lifetimes of
these names. Instead, make a local copy when needed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Only consider the first parent commit when walking the commit history. This
is useful if you only wish to match tags on your branch after a merge.
Signed-off-by: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with
"--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
base of description, did not restrict the output from the command
to those that match the given pattern.
We may want to have a looser matching that does not restrict to tags,
but that can be done as a follow-up topic; this step is purely a bugfix.
* jc/describe:
describe: --match=<pattern> must limit the refs even when used with --all
The logic to limit the refs used for describing with a matching pattern
with --match=<pattern> parameter was implemented incorrectly when --all
is in effect. It just demoted a ref that did not match the pattern to
lower priority---if there aren't other refs with higher priority
that describe the given commit, such an unmatching ref was still used.
When --match is used, reject refs that do not match the given
criteria, so that with or without --all, the output will only use
refs that match the pattern.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of references still survive to .git/refs as a tree
of all refs. Fix one in docs, one in a -h message, one in
a -h message quoted in docs.
Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Speeds up "git upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the
other side of the connection) by reducing the cost to advertise the
branches and tags that are available in the repository.
* jk/peel-ref:
upload-pack: use peel_ref for ref advertisements
peel_ref: check object type before loading
peel_ref: do not return a null sha1
peel_ref: use faster deref_tag_noverify
The idea of the peel_ref function is to dereference tag
objects recursively until we hit a non-tag, and return the
sha1. Conceptually, it should return 0 if it is successful
(and fill in the sha1), or -1 if there was nothing to peel.
However, the current behavior is much more confusing. For a
regular loose ref, the behavior is as described above. But
there is an optimization to reuse the peeled-ref value for a
ref that came from a packed-refs file. If we have such a
ref, we return its peeled value, even if that peeled value
is null (indicating that we know the ref definitely does
_not_ peel).
It might seem like such information is useful to the caller,
who would then know not to bother loading and trying to peel
the object. Except that they should not bother loading and
trying to peel the object _anyway_, because that fallback is
already handled by peel_ref. In other words, the whole point
of calling this function is that it handles those details
internally, and you either get a sha1, or you know that it
is not peel-able.
This patch catches the null sha1 case internally and
converts it into a -1 return value (i.e., there is nothing
to peel). This simplifies callers, which do not need to
bother checking themselves.
Two callers are worth noting:
- in pack-objects, a comment indicates that there is a
difference between non-peelable tags and unannotated
tags. But that is not the case (before or after this
patch). Whether you get a null sha1 has to do with
internal details of how peel_ref operated.
- in show-ref, if peel_ref returns a failure, the caller
tries to decide whether to try peeling manually based on
whether the REF_ISPACKED flag is set. But this doesn't
make any sense. If the flag is set, that does not
necessarily mean the ref came from a packed-refs file
with the "peeled" extension. But it doesn't matter,
because even if it didn't, there's no point in trying to
peel it ourselves, as peel_ref would already have done
so. In other words, the fallback peeling is guaranteed
to fail.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running git describe --dirty the index should be refreshed. Previously
the cached index would cause describe to think that the index was dirty when,
in reality, it was just stale.
The issue was exposed by python setuptools which hardlinks files into another
directory when building a distribution.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default of 7 comes from fairly early in git development, when
seven hex digits was a lot (it covers about 250+ million hash
values). Back then I thought that 65k revisions was a lot (it was what
we were about to hit in BK), and each revision tends to be about 5-10
new objects or so, so a million objects was a big number.
These days, the kernel isn't even the largest git project, and even
the kernel has about 220k revisions (_much_ bigger than the BK tree
ever was) and we are approaching two million objects. At that point,
seven hex digits is still unique for a lot of them, but when we're
talking about just two orders of magnitude difference between number
of objects and the hash size, there _will_ be collisions in truncated
hash values. It's no longer even close to unrealistic - it happens all
the time.
We should both increase the default abbrev that was unrealistically
small, _and_ add a way for people to set their own default per-project
in the git config file.
This is the first step to first make it configurable; the default of 7
is not raised yet.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For the find_exact_renames() function, this allows us to pass the
diff_options structure pointer to the low-level routines. We will use
that to distinguish between the "rename" and "copy" cases.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that struct commit.util is not used until after we've checked that
the argument doesn't exactly match a tag, we can wait until then to
look up the commits for each tag.
This avoids a lot of I/O on --exact-match queries in repositories with
many tags. For example, 'git describe --exact-match HEAD' becomes
about 12 times faster on a cold cache (3.2s instead of 39s) in a
linux-2.6 repository with 2000 packed tags. That is a huge win for the
interactivity of the __git_ps1 shell prompt helper when on a detached
HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
describe is currently forced to look up the commit at each tag in
order to store the struct commit_name pointers in struct commit.util.
For --exact-match queries, those lookups are wasteful. In preparation
for removing them, put the commit_names into a hash table, indexed by
commit SHA1, that can be used to quickly check for exact matches.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now add_to_known_names overwrites commit_names in place when multiple
tags point to the same commit. This will make it easier to store
commit_names in a hash table.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Don't waste time checking for dangling refs; they wouldn't affect the
output of 'git describe' anyway. Although this does not gain much
performance by itself, it does in conjunction with the next commits.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add commit_list prefix to insert_by_date function and to sort_by_date,
so it's clear that these functions refer to commit_list structure.
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sp/maint-describe-tiebreak-with-tagger-date:
describe: Break annotated tag ties by tagger date
tag.c: Parse tagger date (if present)
tag.c: Refactor parse_tag_buffer to be saner to program
tag.h: Remove unused signature field
tag.c: Correct indentation
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c
builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c
you get
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type]
builtin/ builtin.h
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c
which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.
NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.
So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
