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Andy Whitcroft
8e806adb65 Add tests for git push'es mirror mode
Add some tests for git push --mirror mode.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-12 18:22:09 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
726c8ef5a5 Fix preprocessor logic that determines the availablity of strchrnul().
Apart from the error in the condition (&& should actually be ||), the
construct

    #if !defined(A) || !A

leads to a syntax error in the C preprocessor if A is indeed not defined.

Tested-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-12 18:16:34 -08:00
Alex Riesen
ed31df312a Update the tracking references only if they were succesfully updated on remote
It fixes the bug where local tracking branches were filled with zeroed
SHA-1 if the remote branch was not updated because, for instance, it
was not an ancestor of the local (i.e. had other changes).

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-12 17:50:31 -08:00
Alex Riesen
6fa92bf3cd Add a test checking if send-pack updated local tracking branches correctly
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-12 17:50:31 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
f192c5d0fb git-clean: Fix error message if clean.requireForce is not set.
It was distracting to see this error message:

     clean.requireForce set and -n or -f not given; refusing to clean

even though clean.requireForce was not set at all. This patch distinguishes
the cases and gives a different message depending on whether the
configuration variable is not set or set to true.

While we are here, we also divert the error messages to stderr.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-12 17:49:49 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
3f735b6654 rebase: fix "rebase --continue" breakage
The --skip case was handled properly when rebasing without --merge,
but the --continue case was not.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-12 16:23:09 -08:00
Eric Wong
cfbe7ab333 git-svn: support for funky branch and project names over HTTP(S)
SVN requires that paths be URI-escaped for HTTP(S) repositories.
file:// and svn:// repositories do not need these rules.

Additionally, accessing individual paths inside repositories
(check_path() and get_log() do NOT require escapes to function
and in fact it breaks things).

Noticed-by: Michael J. Cohen <mjc@cruiseplanners.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-12 00:22:49 -08:00
Jonas Fonseca
a4e57e75c9 Documentation: Fix references to deprecated commands
... by changing git-tar-tree reference to git-archive and removing
seemingly unrelevant footnote about git-ssh-{fetch,upload}.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-12 00:18:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
35865ca245 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  for-each-ref: fix off by one read.
  git-branch: remove mention of non-existent '-b' option
  git-svn: prevent dcommitting if the index is dirty.
  Fix memory leak in traverse_commit_list
2007-11-12 00:14:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9b2a182124 Merge branch 'sp/maint-plug-traverse-commit-list-leak' into maint
* sp/maint-plug-traverse-commit-list-leak:
  Fix memory leak in traverse_commit_list
2007-11-12 00:00:00 -08:00
Christian Couder
a74fa1106d for-each-ref: fix off by one read.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 23:40:33 -08:00
Jeff King
53e780c8f6 git-branch: remove mention of non-existent '-b' option
This looks like a cut and paste error from the git-checkout
explanation of --no-track.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 23:40:32 -08:00
Benoit Sigoure
c8cfa3e4a5 git-svn: prevent dcommitting if the index is dirty.
dcommit uses rebase to sync the history with what has just been pushed to
SVN.  Trying to dcommit with a dirty index is troublesome for rebase, so now
the user will get an error message if he attempts to dcommit with a dirty
index.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 23:40:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
25487bde2a t2200: test more cases of "add -u"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 18:44:16 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
4191c35671 git-fetch: avoid local fetching from alternate (again)
Back in e3c6f240fd Junio taught
git-fetch to avoid copying objects when we are fetching from
a repository that is already registered as an alternate object
database.  In such a case there is no reason to copy any objects
as we can already obtain them through the alternate.

However we need to ensure the objects are all reachable, so we
run `git rev-list --objects $theirs --not --all` to verify this.
If any object is missing or unreadable then we need to fetch/copy
the objects from the remote.  When a missing object is detected
the git-rev-list process will exit with a non-zero exit status,
making this condition quite easy to detect.

Although git-fetch is currently a builtin (and so is rev-list)
we cannot invoke the traverse_objects() API at this point in the
transport code.  The object walker within traverse_objects() calls
die() as soon as it finds an object it cannot read.  If that happens
we want to resume the fetch process by calling do_fetch_pack().
To get around this we spawn git-rev-list into a background process
to prevent a die() from killing the foreground fetch process,
thus allowing the fetch process to resume into do_fetch_pack()
if copying is necessary.

We aren't interested in the output of rev-list (a list of SHA-1
object names that are reachable) or its errors (a "spurious" error
about an object not being found as we need to copy it) so we redirect
both stdout and stderr to /dev/null.

We run this git-rev-list based check before any fetch as we may
already have the necessary objects local from a prior fetch.  If we
don't then its very likely the first $theirs object listed on the
command line won't exist locally and git-rev-list will die very
quickly, allowing us to start the network transfer.  This test even
on remote URLs may save bandwidth if someone runs `git pull origin`,
sees a merge conflict, resets out, then redoes the same pull just
a short time later.  If the remote hasn't changed between the two
pulls and the local repository hasn't had git-gc run in it then
there is probably no need to perform network transfer as all of
the objects are local.

Documentation for the new quickfetch function was suggested and
written by Junio, based on his original comment in git-fetch.sh.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-11-11 17:09:55 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
27350891de rev-list: Introduce --quiet to avoid /dev/null redirects
Some uses of git-rev-list are to run it with --objects to see if
a range of objects between two or more commits is fully connected
or not.  In such a case the caller doesn't care about the actual
object names or hash hints so formatting this data only for it to
be dumped to /dev/null by a redirect is a waste of CPU time.  If
all the caller needs is the exit status then --quiet can be used
to bypass the commit and object formatting.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-11-11 17:09:55 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
b73a439759 run-command: Support sending stderr to /dev/null
Some callers may wish to redirect stderr to /dev/null in some
contexts, such as if they are executing a command only to get
the exit status and don't want users to see whatever output it
may produce as a side-effect of computing that exit status.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-11-11 17:09:55 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
a3b0079c6a git-fetch: Always fetch tags if the object they reference exists
Previously git-fetch.sh used `git cat-file -t` to determine if an
object referenced by a tag exists, and if so fetch that tag locally.
This was subtly broken during the port to C based builtin-fetch as
lookup_object() only works to locate an object if it was previously
accessed by the transport.  Not all transports will access all
objects in this way, so tags were not always being fetched.

The rsync transport never loads objects into the internal object
table so automated tag following didn't work if rsync was used.
Automated tag following also didn't work on the native transport
if the new tag was behind the common point(s) negotiated between
the two ends of the connection as the tag's referrant would not
be loaded into the internal object table.  Further the automated
tag following was broken with the HTTP commit walker if the new
tag's referrant was behind an existing ref, as the walker would
stop before loading the tag's referrant into the object table.

Switching to has_sha1_file() restores the original behavior from
the shell script by checking if the object exists in the ODB,
without relying on the state left behind by a transport.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-11-11 17:09:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7666cdedb4 Merge branch 'sp/maint-plug-traverse-commit-list-leak' into sp/fetch-fix
* sp/maint-plug-traverse-commit-list-leak:
  Fix memory leak in traverse_commit_list
2007-11-11 17:09:48 -08:00
Mike Hommey
fb6e4e1f3f Do git reset --hard HEAD when using git rebase --skip
When you have a merge conflict and want to bypass the commit causing it,
you don't want to care about the dirty state of the working tree.

Also, don't git reset --hard HEAD in the rebase-skip test, so that the
lack of support for this is detected.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 17:04:59 -08:00
David Symonds
fed1b5cac0 git-checkout: Test for relative path use.
Signed-off-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 17:00:08 -08:00
David Symonds
4307234a4e git-checkout: Support relative paths containing "..".
Signed-off-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 17:00:07 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
d054680c7d Reorder diff_opt_parse options more logically per topics.
This is a line reordering patch _only_.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 16:54:15 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
8f67f8aefb Make the diff_options bitfields be an unsigned with explicit masks.
reverse_diff was a bit-value in disguise, it's merged in the flags now.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 16:54:15 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
68dce6e941 Use OPT_BIT in builtin-pack-refs
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 16:54:15 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
9fac800cae Use OPT_BIT in builtin-for-each-ref
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 16:54:15 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
d11d44faee Use OPT_SET_INT and OPT_BIT in builtin-branch
Also remove a spurious after-check on --abbrev (OPT__ABBREV already takes
care of that)

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 16:54:15 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
db7244bd5b parse-options new features.
options flags:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  PARSE_OPT_NONEG allow the caller to disallow the negated option to exists.

option types:
~~~~~~~~~~~~
  OPTION_BIT: ORs (or NANDs) a mask.
  OPTION_SET_INT: force the value to be set to this integer.
  OPTION_SET_PTR: force the value to be set to this pointer.

helper:
~~~~~~
  HAS_MULTI_BITS (in git-compat-util.h) is a bit-hack to check if an
  unsigned integer has more than one bit set, useful to check if conflicting
  options have been used.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 16:54:15 -08:00
Björn Steinbrink
e70f320251 t7005-editor.sh: Don't invoke real vi when it is in GIT_EXEC_PATH
The git wrapper executable always prepends the GIT_EXEC_PATH build
variable to the current PATH, so prepending "." to the PATH is not
enough to give precedence to the fake vi executable.

The --exec-path option allows to prepend a directory to PATH even before
GIT_EXEC_PATH (which is added anyway), so we can use that instead.

Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 15:50:59 -08:00
Rémi Vanicat
859a4dbcad Make GIT_INDEX_FILE apply to git-commit
Currently, when committing, git-commit ignore the value of
GIT_INDEX_FILE, and always use $GIT_DIR/index. This patch
fix it.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 15:41:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
40e2524da9 Merge branch 'js/upload-pack'
* js/upload-pack:
  upload-pack: Use finish_{command,async}() instead of waitpid().
2007-11-11 15:19:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
52b9b48a2c Merge branch 'js/reset'
* js/reset:
  builtin-reset: avoid forking "update-index --refresh"
  builtin-reset: do not call "ls-files --unmerged"
2007-11-11 15:19:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
91febfba6f Merge branch 'js/parseopt-abbrev-fix'
* js/parseopt-abbrev-fix:
  parse-options: abbreviation engine fix.
2007-11-11 15:12:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
82527cf33e Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  fix index-pack with packs >4GB containing deltas on 32-bit machines
  git-hash-object should honor config variables
  gitweb: correct month in date display for atom feeds
2007-11-11 15:00:05 -08:00
Steffen Prohaska
1b2486d737 push: teach push to pass --verbose option to transport layer
A --verbose option to push should also be passed to the
transport layer, i.e. git-send-pack, git-http-push.

git push is modified to do so.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 14:37:03 -08:00
Steffen Prohaska
05ee917a6e push: mention --verbose option in documentation
Before this commit, only '-v' was documented.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 14:37:03 -08:00
Andreas Ericsson
9e79f00f06 Simplify strchrnul() compat code
strchrnul() was introduced in glibc in April 1999 and included in
glibc-2.1. Checking for that version means the majority of all git
users would get to use the optimized version in glibc. Of the
remaining few some might get to use a slightly slower version
than necessary but probably not slower than what we have today.

Unfortunately, __GLIBC_PREREQ() macro was not available in glibc 2.1.1
which was short lived but already supported strchrnul().  Odd minority
users of that library needs to live with our compatibility inline version.

Rediffed-against-next-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 12:10:35 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
a91ef6e75b fix index-pack with packs >4GB containing deltas on 32-bit machines
This probably hasn't been properly tested before.  Here's a script to
create a 8GB repo with the necessary characteristics (copy the
test-genrandom executable from the Git build tree to /tmp first):

-----
#!/bin/bash

git init
git config core.compression 0

# create big objects with no deltas
for i in $(seq -w 1 2 63)
do
	echo $i
	/tmp/test-genrandom $i 268435456 > file_$i
	git add file_$i
	rm file_$i
	echo "file_$i -delta" >> .gitattributes
done

# create "deltifiable" objects in between big objects
for i in $(seq -w 2 2 64)
do
	echo "$i $i $i" >> grow
	cp grow file_$i
	git add file_$i
	rm file_$i
done
rm grow

# create a pack with them
git commit -q -m "commit of big objects interlaced with small deltas"
git repack -a -d
-----

Then clone this repo over the Git protocol.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 02:57:13 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
ff350ccf49 git-hash-object should honor config variables
... such as core.compression.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 02:51:53 -08:00
René Scharfe
b9c6232138 --format=pretty: avoid calculating expensive expansions twice
As Jeff King remarked, format strings with duplicate placeholders can
be slow to expand, because each instance is calculated anew.

This patch makes use of the fact that format_commit_message() and its
helper functions only ever add stuff to the end of the strbuf.  For
certain expensive placeholders, store the offset and length of their
expansion with the strbuf at the first occurrence.  Later they
expansion result can simply be copied from there -- no malloc() or
strdup() required.

These certain placeholders are the abbreviated commit, tree and
parent hashes, as the search for a unique abbreviated hash is quite
costly.  Here are the times for next (best of three runs):

$ time git log --pretty=format:%h >/dev/null

real    0m0.611s
user    0m0.404s
sys     0m0.204s

$ time git log --pretty=format:%h%h%h%h >/dev/null

real    0m1.206s
user    0m0.744s
sys     0m0.452s

And here those with this patch (and the previous two); the speedup
of the single placeholder case is just noise:

$ time git log --pretty=format:%h >/dev/null

real    0m0.608s
user    0m0.416s
sys     0m0.192s

$ time git log --pretty=format:%h%h%h%h >/dev/null

real    0m0.639s
user    0m0.488s
sys     0m0.140s

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 02:04:46 -08:00
René Scharfe
91db267ec8 add strbuf_adddup()
Add a new function, strbuf_adddup(), that appends a duplicate of a
part of a struct strbuf to end of the latter.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 02:04:46 -08:00
René Scharfe
f29d59586c --pretty=format: parse commit message only once
As Jeff King pointed out, some placeholder expansions are related to
each other: the steps to calculate one go most of the way towards
calculating the other, too.

This patch makes format_commit_message() parse the commit message
only once, remembering the position of each item.  This speeds up
handling of format strings containing multiple placeholders from the
set %s, %a*, %c*, %e, %b.

Here are the timings for the git version in next.  The first one is
to estimate the overhead of the caching, the second one is taken
from http://svn.tue.mpg.de/tentakel/trunk/tentakel/Makefile as an
example of a format string found in the wild.  The times are the
fastest of three consecutive runs in each case:

$ time git log --pretty=format:%e >/dev/null

real    0m0.381s
user    0m0.340s
sys     0m0.024s

$ time git log --pretty=format:"* %cd %cn%n%n%s%n%b" >/dev/null

real    0m0.623s
user    0m0.556s
sys     0m0.052s

And here the times with this patch:

$ time git log --pretty=format:%e >/dev/null

real    0m0.385s
user    0m0.332s
sys     0m0.040s

$ time git log --pretty=format:"* %cd %cn%n%n%s%n%b" >/dev/null

real    0m0.563s
user    0m0.504s
sys     0m0.048s

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 02:04:46 -08:00
Vincent Zanotti
a62d6d84c6 gitweb: correct month in date display for atom feeds
Signed-off-by: Vincent Zanotti <vincent.zanotti@m4x.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-10 12:47:16 -08:00
Michele Ballabio
570f322669 test-lib.sh: move error line after error() declaration
This patch removes a spurious "command not found" error
and actually makes the "Test script did not set test_description."
string follow the command line option "--no-color".

Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-10 11:04:56 -08:00
Lars Hjemli
c899a57c28 for-each-ref: fix setup of option-parsing for --sort
The option value for --sort is already a pointer to a pointer to struct
ref_sort, so just use it.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-10 11:04:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a130976b71 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  print warning/error/fatal messages in one shot
2007-11-10 02:06:30 -08:00
Sergei Organov
2782c9355a core-tutorial.txt: Fix git-show-branch example and its description
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-10 02:01:12 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
295dd2ad20 Fix memory leak in traverse_commit_list
If we were listing objects too then the objects were buffered in an
array only reachable from a stack allocated structure.  When this
function returns that array would be leaked as nobody would have
a reference to it anymore.

Historically this hasn't been a problem as the primary user of
traverse_commit_list() (the noble git-rev-list) would terminate
as soon as the function was finished, thus allowing the operating
system to cleanup memory.  However we have been leaking this data
in git-pack-objects ever since that program learned how to run the
revision listing internally, rather than relying on reading object
names from git-rev-list.

To better facilitate reuse of traverse_commit_list during other
builtin tools (such as git-fetch) we shouldn't leak temporary memory
like this and instead we need to clean up properly after ourselves.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-10 01:52:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5aa5cd460c git-commit: a bit more tests
Add tests for -s (sign-off) and multiple -m options

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-10 01:49:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fb63d7f889 git-add: make the entry stat-clean after re-adding the same contents
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>
2007-11-10 00:37:39 -08:00