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Matthieu Moy
92de92172d Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 15:28:51 -07:00
René Scharfe
22570b68e3 dir: remove unused variable sb
It had never been used.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:50:22 -07:00
René Scharfe
5cd83e1885 clean: remove unused variable buf
It had never been used.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:50:21 -07:00
René Scharfe
dbe44faadb use file_exists() to check if a file exists in the worktree
Call file_exists() instead of open-coding it.  That's shorter, simpler
and the intent becomes clearer.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:49:10 -07:00
Jeff King
5ba28313f2 stash: recognize "--help" for subcommands
If you run "git stash --help", you get the help for stash
(this magic is done by the git wrapper itself). But if you
run "git stash drop --help", you get an error. We
cannot show help specific to "stash drop", of course, but we
can at least give the user the normal stash manpage.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:47:41 -07:00
Jeff King
d6cc2df5c8 stash: complain about unknown flags
The option parser for git-stash stuffs unknown flags into
the $FLAGS variable, where they can be accessed by the
individual commands. However, most commands do not even look
at these extra flags, leading to unexpected results like
this:

  $ git stash drop --help
  Dropped refs/stash@{0} (e6cf6d80faf92bb7828f7b60c47fc61c03bd30a1)

We should notice the extra flags and bail. Rather than
annotate each command to reject a non-empty $FLAGS variable,
we can notice that "stash show" is the only command that
actually _wants_ arbitrary flags. So we switch the default
mode to reject unknown flags, and let stash_show() opt into
the feature.

Reported-by: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:47:30 -07:00
David Turner
122d53464b cat-file: add --follow-symlinks to --batch
This wires the in-repo-symlink following code through to the cat-file
builtin.  In the event of an out-of-repo link, cat-file will print
the link in a new format.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:46:21 -07:00
David Turner
c4ec96774b sha1_name: get_sha1_with_context learns to follow symlinks
Wire up get_sha1_with_context to call get_tree_entry_follow_symlinks
when GET_SHA1_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS is passed in flags. G_S_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS
is incompatible with G_S_ONLY_TO_DIE because the diagnosis
that ONLY_TO_DIE triggers does not at present consider symlinks, and
it would be a significant amount of additional code to allow it to
do so.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:46:13 -07:00
David Turner
275721c267 tree-walk: learn get_tree_entry_follow_symlinks
Add a new function, get_tree_entry_follow_symlinks, to tree-walk.[ch].
The function is not yet used.  It will be used to implement git
cat-file --batch --follow-symlinks.

The function locates an object by path, following symlinks in the
repository.  If the symlinks lead outside the repository, the function
reports this to the caller.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:45:49 -07:00
David Aguilar
3e4f2373b2 mergetools: add winmerge as a builtin tool
Add a winmerge scriptlet with the commands described in [1] so
that users can use winmerge without needing to perform any
additional configuration.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/268631

Helped-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:13:44 -07:00
David Aguilar
719518f5ce mergetool--lib: set IFS for difftool and mergetool
git-sh-setup sets IFS but it is not used by git-difftool--helper.
Set IFS in git-mergetool--lib so that the mergetool scriptlets,
difftool, and mergetool do not need to do so.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:13:42 -07:00
Jeff King
cc969c8dc1 t5551: factor out tag creation
One of our tests in t5551 creates a large number of tags,
and jumps through some hoops to do it efficiently. Let's
factor that out into a function so we can make other similar
tests.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 10:38:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0c4dd67a04 filter_buffer_or_fd(): ignore EPIPE
We are explicitly ignoring SIGPIPE, as we fully expect that the
filter program may not read our output fully.  Ignore EPIPE that
may come from writing to it as well.

A new test was stolen from Jeff's suggestion.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 10:19:12 -07:00
Michael Coleman
5c2a581dc9 Documentation/git-commit: grammofix
Signed-off-by: Michael Coleman <michael.karl.coleman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19 21:20:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
00b7cbfcb3 copy.c: make copy_fd() report its status silently
When copy_fd() function encounters errors, it emits error messages
itself, which makes it impossible for callers to take responsibility
for reporting errors, especially when they want to ignore certain
errors.

Move the error reporting to its callers in preparation.

 - copy_file() and copy_file_with_time() by indirection get their
   own calls to error().

 - hold_lock_file_for_append(), when told to die on error, used to
   exit(128) relying on the error message from copy_fd(), but now it
   does its own die() instead.  Note that the callers that do not
   pass LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR need to be adjusted for this change, but
   fortunately there is none ;-)

 - filter_buffer_or_fd() has its own error() already, in addition to
   the message from copy_fd(), so this will change the output but
   arguably in a better way.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19 14:48:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6c1249c503 Third batch for 2.5 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19 13:24:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4295abc040 Merge branch 'sb/ref-lock-lose-lock-fd'
The refs API uses ref_lock struct which had its own "int fd", even
though the same file descriptor was in the lock struct it contains.
Clean-up the code to lose this redundant field.

* sb/ref-lock-lose-lock-fd:
  refs.c: remove lock_fd from struct ref_lock
2015-05-19 13:17:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3b7d373ae2 Merge branch 'kn/cat-file-literally'
Add the "--allow-unknown-type" option to "cat-file" to allow
inspecting loose objects of an experimental or a broken type.

* kn/cat-file-literally:
  t1006: add tests for git cat-file --allow-unknown-type
  cat-file: teach cat-file a '--allow-unknown-type' option
  cat-file: make the options mutually exclusive
  sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type
2015-05-19 13:17:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
949d16795c Merge branch 'nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs'
A heuristic to help the "git <cmd> <revs> <pathspec>" command line
convention to catch mistyped paths is to make sure all the non-rev
parameters in the later part of the command line are names of the
files in the working tree, but that means "git grep $str -- \*.c"
must always be disambiguated with "--", because nobody sane will
create a file whose name literally is asterisk-dot-see.  Loosen the
heuristic to declare that with a wildcard string the user likely
meant to give us a pathspec.

* nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs:
  pathspec: avoid the need of "--" when wildcard is used
2015-05-19 13:17:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bcd1ecd08a Merge branch 'jc/merge'
"git merge FETCH_HEAD" learned that the previous "git fetch" could
be to create an Octopus merge, i.e. recording multiple branches
that are not marked as "not-for-merge"; this allows us to lose an
old style invocation "git merge <msg> HEAD $commits..." in the
implementation of "git pull" script; the old style syntax can now
be deprecated.

* jc/merge:
  merge: deprecate 'git merge <message> HEAD <commit>' syntax
  merge: handle FETCH_HEAD internally
  merge: decide if we auto-generate the message early in collect_parents()
  merge: make collect_parents() auto-generate the merge message
  merge: extract prepare_merge_message() logic out
  merge: narrow scope of merge_names
  merge: split reduce_parents() out of collect_parents()
  merge: clarify collect_parents() logic
  merge: small leakfix and code simplification
  merge: do not check argc to determine number of remote heads
  merge: clarify "pulling into void" special case
  t5520: test pulling an octopus into an unborn branch
  t5520: style fixes
  merge: simplify code flow
  merge: test the top-level merge driver
2015-05-19 13:17:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eae0216646 Merge branch 'ph/rebase-i-redo'
"git rebase -i" moved the "current" command from "todo" to "done" a
bit too prematurely, losing a step when a "pick" did not even start.

* ph/rebase-i-redo:
  rebase -i: redo tasks that die during cherry-pick
2015-05-19 13:17:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
072f391c53 Merge branch 'jc/test-prereq-validate'
Help us to find broken test script that splits the body part of the
test by mistaken use of wrong kind of quotes.

* jc/test-prereq-validate:
  test: validate prerequistes syntax
2015-05-19 13:17:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7a4f891329 Merge branch 'bc/connect-plink'
The connection initiation code for "ssh" transport tried to absorb
differences between the stock "ssh" and Putty-supplied "plink" and
its derivatives, but the logic to tell that we are using "plink"
variants were too loose and falsely triggered when "plink" appeared
anywhere in the path (e.g. "/home/me/bin/uplink/ssh").

* bc/connect-plink:
  connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives
  t5601: fix quotation error leading to skipped tests
  connect: simplify SSH connection code path
2015-05-19 13:17:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
da3d507ce0 Merge branch 'jk/test-chain-lint'
Developer support to automatically detect broken &&-chain in the
test scripts is now turned on by default.

* jk/test-chain-lint:
  test-lib: turn on GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT by default
  t7502-commit.sh: fix a broken and-chain
2015-05-19 13:17:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3e199decd5 Merge branch 'fg/document-commit-message-stripping'
* fg/document-commit-message-stripping:
  Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log message
2015-05-19 13:17:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
05c39674f3 Merge branch 'jk/stash-require-clean-index'
"git stash pop/apply" forgot to make sure that not just the working
tree is clean but also the index is clean. The latter is important
as a stash application can conflict and the index will be used for
conflict resolution.

* jk/stash-require-clean-index:
  stash: require a clean index to apply
  t3903: avoid applying onto dirty index
  t3903: stop hard-coding commit sha1s
2015-05-19 13:17:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1645dbeff7 Merge branch 'jk/git-no-more-argv0-path-munging'
We have prepended $GIT_EXEC_PATH and the path "git" is installed in
(typically "/usr/bin") to $PATH when invoking subprograms and hooks
for almost eternity, but the original use case the latter tried to
support was semi-bogus (i.e. install git to /opt/foo/git and run it
without having /opt/foo on $PATH), and more importantly it has
become less and less relevant as Git grew more mainstream (i.e. the
users would _want_ to have it on their $PATH).  Stop prepending the
path in which "git" is installed to users' $PATH, as that would
interfere the command search order people depend on (e.g. they may
not like versions of programs that are unrelated to Git in /usr/bin
and want to override them by having different ones in /usr/local/bin
and have the latter directory earlier in their $PATH).

* jk/git-no-more-argv0-path-munging:
  stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH
2015-05-19 13:17:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
20cf8b548e Merge branch 'jc/gitignore-precedence'
core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed
to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but
the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it.

* jc/gitignore-precedence:
  ignore: info/exclude should trump core.excludesfile
2015-05-19 13:17:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d0c692263f Merge branch 'nd/diff-i-t-a'
After "git add -N", the path appeared in output of "git diff HEAD"
and "git diff --cached HEAD", leading "git status" to classify it
as "Changes to be committed".  Such a path, however, is not yet to
be scheduled to be committed.  "git diff" showed the change to the
path as modification, not as a "new file", in the header of its
output.

Treat such paths as "yet to be added to the index but Git already
know about them"; "git diff HEAD" and "git diff --cached HEAD"
should not talk about them, and "git diff" should show them as new
files yet to be added to the index.

* nd/diff-i-t-a:
  diff-lib.c: adjust position of i-t-a entries in diff
2015-05-19 13:17:49 -07:00
Jeff King
a4fb76ce19 progress: treat "no terminal" as being in the foreground
progress: treat "no terminal" as being in the foreground

Commit 85cb890 (progress: no progress in background,
2015-04-13) avoids sending progress from background
processes by checking that the process group id of the
current process is the same as that of the controlling
terminal.

If we don't have a terminal, however, this check never
succeeds, and we print no progress at all (until the final
"done" message). This can be seen when cloning a large
repository; instead of getting progress updates for
"counting objects", it will appear to hang then print the
final count.

We can fix this by treating an error return from tcgetpgrp()
as a signal to show the progress.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19 09:35:14 -07:00
René Scharfe
599dc766e8 pack-bitmaps: plug memory leak, fix allocation size for recent_bitmaps
Use an automatic variable for recent_bitmaps, an array of pointers.
This way we don't allocate too much and don't have to free the memory
at the end.  The old code over-allocated because it reserved enough
memory to store all of the structs it is only pointing to and never
freed it.  160 64-bit pointers take up 1280 bytes, which is not too
much to be placed on the stack.

MAX_XOR_OFFSET is turned into a preprocessor constant to make it
constant enough for use in an non-variable array declaration.

Noticed-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19 09:31:09 -07:00
Mike Hommey
822f0c4ff7 clone: call transport_set_verbosity before anything else on the newly created transport
Commit 2879bc3 made the progress and verbosity options sent to remote helper
earlier than they previously were. But nothing else after that would send
updates if the value is changed later on with transport_set_verbosity.

While for fetch and push, transport_set_verbosity is the first thing that
is done after creating the transport, it was not the case for clone. So
commit 2879bc3 broke changing progress and verbosity for clone, for urls
requiring a remote helper only (so, not git:// urls, for instance).

Moving transport_set_verbosity to just after the transport is created
works around the issue.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19 09:05:55 -07:00
Stefan Beller
66d2e04ec9 subdirectory tests: code cleanup, uncomment test
Back when these tests were written, we wanted to make sure that Git
notices it is in a bare repository and "git show -s HEAD" would
refrain from complaining that HEAD might mean a file it sees in its
current working directory (because it does not).  But the version of
Git back then didn't behave well, without (doubly) being told that
it is inside a bare repository by exporting "GIT_DIR=.".  The form
of the test we originally wanted to have was left commented out as
a reminder.

Nowadays the test as originally intended works, so add it to the
test suite.  We'll keep the old test that explicitly sets GIT_DIR=.
to make sure that use case will not regress.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18 15:22:49 -07:00
David Turner
838d6a928f clean: only lstat files in pathspec
Even though "git clean" takes pathspec to limit the part of the
working tree to be cleaned, it checked the paths it encounters
during its directory traversal with lstat(2), before checking if
the path is within the pathspec.

Ignore paths outside pathspec and proceed without checking with
lstat(2).  Even if such a path is unreadable due to e.g. EPERM,
"git clean" should not care.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18 14:04:15 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
d89df367f6 Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
There are several "raw formats", and describing --raw as "Generate the
raw format" in the documentation for git-log seems to imply that it
generates the raw *log* format.

Clarify the wording by saying "raw diff format" explicitly, and make a
special-case for "git log": "git log --raw" does not just change the
format, it shows something which is not shown by default.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18 13:42:52 -07:00
Paul Tan
db9bb280ed pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string
Since b814da8 (pull: add pull.ff configuration, 2014-01-15) git-pull
supported setting --(no-)ff via the pull.ff configuration value.
However, as it only matches the string values of "true" and "false", it
does not support other boolean aliases such as "on", "off", "1", "0".
This is inconsistent with the merge.ff setting, which supports these
aliases.

Fix this by using the bool_or_string_config function to retrieve the
value of pull.ff.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18 11:22:38 -07:00
Paul Tan
eb8dc05c3d pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
Since b814da8 (pull: add pull.ff configuration, 2014-01-15), running
git-pull with the configuration pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is
equivalent to passing --no-ff and --ff-only to git-merge. However, if
pull.ff=true, no switch is passed to git-merge. This leads to the
confusing behavior where pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is able to
override merge.ff, while pull.ff=true is unable to.

Fix this by adding the --ff switch if pull.ff=true, and add a test to
catch future regressions.

Furthermore, clarify in the documentation that pull.ff overrides
merge.ff.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18 11:22:27 -07:00
Paul Tan
5061a44bcc pull: handle --log=<n>
Since efb779f (merge, pull: add '--(no-)log' command line option,
2008-04-06) git-pull supported the (--no-)log switch and would pass it
to git-merge.

96e9420 (merge: Make '--log' an integer option for number of shortlog
entries, 2010-09-08) implemented support for the --log=<n> switch, which
would explicitly set the number of shortlog entries. However, git-pull
does not recognize this option, and will instead pass it to git-fetch,
leading to "unknown option" errors.

Fix this by matching --log=* in addition to --log and --no-log.

Implement a test for this use case.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18 11:19:36 -07:00
Jim Hill
f6a1e1e288 sha1_file: pass empty buffer to index empty file
`git add` of an empty file with a filter pops complaints from
`copy_fd` about a bad file descriptor.

This traces back to these lines in sha1_file.c:index_core:

	if (!size) {
		ret = index_mem(sha1, NULL, size, type, path, flags);

The problem here is that content to be added to the index can be
supplied from an fd, or from a memory buffer, or from a pathname. This
call is supplying a NULL buffer pointer and a zero size.

Downstream logic takes the complete absence of a buffer to mean the
data is to be found elsewhere -- for instance, these, from convert.c:

	if (params->src) {
		write_err = (write_in_full(child_process.in, params->src, params->size) < 0);
	} else {
		write_err = copy_fd(params->fd, child_process.in);
	}

~If there's a buffer, write from that, otherwise the data must be coming
from an open fd.~

Perfectly reasonable logic in a routine that's going to write from
either a buffer or an fd.

So change `index_core` to supply an empty buffer when indexing an empty
file.

There's a patch out there that instead changes the logic quoted above to
take a `-1` fd to mean "use the buffer", but it seems to me that the
distinction between a missing buffer and an empty one carries intrinsic
semantics, where the logic change is adapting the code to handle
incorrect arguments.

Signed-off-by: Jim Hill <gjthill@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18 10:15:20 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
3890dae970 pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17 11:25:00 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
4667391958 git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17 11:24:58 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
d017a450ed git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17 11:24:57 -07:00
Jeff King
7253a02348 http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
When we die() in http-backend, we call a custom handler that
writes an HTTP 500 response to stdout, then reports the
error to stderr. Our routines for writing out the HTTP
response may themselves die, leading to us entering die()
again.

When it was originally written, that was OK; our custom
handler keeps a variable to notice this and does not
recurse. However, since cd163d4 (usage.c: detect recursion
in die routines and bail out immediately, 2012-11-14), the
main die() implementation detects recursion before we even
get to our custom handler, and bails without printing
anything useful.

We can handle this case by doing two things:

  1. Installing a custom die_is_recursing handler that
     allows us to enter up to one level of recursion. Only
     the first call to our custom handler will try to write
     out the error response. So if we die again, that is OK.
     If we end up dying more than that, it is a sign that we
     are in an infinite recursion.

  2. Reporting the error to stderr before trying to write
     out the HTTP response. In the current code, if we do
     die() trying to write out the response, we'll exit
     immediately from this second die(), and never get a
     chance to output the original error (which is almost
     certainly the more interesting one; the second die is
     just going to be along the lines of "I tried to write
     to stdout but it was closed").

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-15 11:13:47 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
f4ab4f3ab1 lock_packed_refs(): allow retries when acquiring the packed-refs lock
Currently, there is only one attempt to acquire any lockfile, and if
the lock is held by another process, the locking attempt fails
immediately.

This is not such a limitation for loose reference files. First, they
don't take long to rewrite. Second, most reference updates have a
known "old" value, so if another process is updating a reference at
the same moment that we are trying to lock it, then probably the
expected "old" value will not longer be valid, and the update will
fail anyway.

But these arguments do not hold for packed-refs:

* The packed-refs file can be large and take significant time to
  rewrite.

* Many references are stored in a single packed-refs file, so it could
  be that the other process was changing a different reference than
  the one that we are interested in.

Therefore, it is much more likely for there to be spurious lock
conflicts in connection to the packed-refs file, resulting in
unnecessary command failures.

So, if the first attempt to lock the packed-refs file fails, continue
retrying for a configurable length of time before giving up. The
default timeout is 1 second.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14 14:51:51 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
044b6a9efe lockfile: allow file locking to be retried with a timeout
Currently, there is only one attempt to lock a file. If it fails, the
whole operation fails.

But it might sometimes be advantageous to try acquiring a file lock a
few times before giving up. So add a new function,
hold_lock_file_for_update_timeout(), that allows a timeout to be
specified. Make hold_lock_file_for_update() a thin wrapper around the
new function.

If timeout_ms is positive, then retry for at least that many
milliseconds to acquire the lock. On each failed attempt, use select()
to wait for a backoff time that increases quadratically (capped at 1
second) and has a random component to prevent two processes from
getting synchronized. If timeout_ms is negative, retry indefinitely.

In a moment we will switch to using the new function when locking
packed-refs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14 14:51:08 -07:00
Jeff King
0544574cdc rerere: exit silently on "forget" when rerere is disabled
If you run "git rerere forget foo" in a repository that does
not have rerere enabled, git hits an internal error:

  $ git init -q
  $ git rerere forget foo
  fatal: BUG: attempt to commit unlocked object

The problem is that setup_rerere() will not actually take
the lock if the rerere system is disabled. We should notice
this and return early. We can return with a success code
here, because we know there is nothing to forget.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14 12:33:15 -07:00
Paul Tan
19d122bf1b pull: remove --tags error in no merge candidates case
Since 441ed41 ("git pull --tags": error out with a better message.,
2007-12-28), git pull --tags would print a different error message if
git-fetch did not return any merge candidates:

   It doesn't make sense to pull all tags; you probably meant:
        git fetch --tags

This is because at that time, git-fetch --tags would override any
configured refspecs, and thus there would be no merge candidates. The
error message was thus introduced to prevent confusion.

However, since c5a84e9 (fetch --tags: fetch tags *in addition to*
other stuff, 2013-10-30), git fetch --tags would fetch tags in addition
to any configured refspecs. Hence, if any no merge candidates situation
occurs, it is not because --tags was set. As such, this special error
message is now irrelevant.

To prevent confusion, remove this error message.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14 09:52:51 -07:00
Jeff King
d0258b93e6 doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
The former seems to just be syntactic sugar for the latter.
And as it's sugar that AsciiDoctor doesn't understand, it
would be nice to avoid it. Since there are only two spots,
and the resulting source is not significantly harder to
read, it's worth doing.

Note that this does slightly affect the generated HTML (it
has an extra newline), but the rendered result for both HTML
and docbook should be the same (since the newline is not
syntactically significant there).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14 09:38:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1ea28e1494 Sync with 2.4.1
* maint:
  Git 2.4.1
2015-05-13 14:35:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aaa7e0d7f8 Git 2.4.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-13 14:11:43 -07:00