A function intended to be called from builtins updating refs
by locking them before write, specially those that came from
scripts using "git update-ref".
[jc: with minor fixups]
Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier these tools refused to create a reflog entry when the
message given by the calling Porcelain had a LF in it, partially
to keep the file format integrity of reflog file, which is
one-entry-per-line. These tools should not be dictating such a
policy.
Instead, let the codepath to write out the reflog entry worry
about the format integrity and allow messages with LF in them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-checkout is also adapted to make use of this new option
instead of the handcrafted command sequence.
Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We used to use lock_any_ref_for_update() because the command
needs to also update HEAD (which is not under refs/, so
lock_ref_sha1() cannot be used). The function however did not
check for refs with illegal characters in them.
Use check_ref_format() to catch malformed refs. For this check,
we specifically do not want to say having less than two levels
in the name is illegal to allow HEAD (and perhaps other special
refs in the future).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Back when only handful commands that created commit and tag were
the only users of committer identity information, it made sense
to explicitly call setup_ident() to pre-fill the default value
from the gecos information. But it is much simpler for programs
to make the call automatic when get_ident() is called these days,
since many more programs want to use the information when updating
the reflog.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It used to throw potentially multi-line log message at reflog.
Just record the heads that were given to be merged at the command
line and the action.
Revert the removal of the check in "git-update-ref -m" I made earlier
which was only a work-around for this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The file format dictates that entries are LF terminated so
the message cannot have one in it. Chomp the message to make
sure it only has a single line if necessary, while removing the
leading whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds -d flag to update-ref to allow safe deletion of ref.
Before deleting it, the command checks if the given <oldvalue>
still matches the value the caller thought the ref contained.
Similarly, it also accepts 0{40} or an empty string as <oldvalue>
to allow safe creation of a new ref.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This changes the calling convention of built-in commands and
passes the "prefix" (i.e. pathname of $PWD relative to the
project root level) down to them.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Apparently calling setup_ident() after git_config causes the
user.name and user.email values read from the config file to be
replaced with the data obtained from the host. This means that
users who have setup their email address in user.email will instead
be writing reflog entries with their hostname.
Moving setup_ident() to before git_config in update-ref resolves
this ordering problem.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
