checkout operates in three different modes. On top of that it tries to
be smart by guessing the branch name for switching. This results in
messy option handling code. This patch reorders it so that
- cmd_checkout() is responsible for parsing, preparing input and
determining mode
- Code of each mode is in checkout_paths() and checkout_branch(),
where sanity checks are performed
Another slight improvement is always print branch name (or commit
name) when printing errors related ot them. This helps catch the case
where an option is mistaken as branch/commit.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use argv-array API in "git fetch" implementation.
* jk/argv-array:
submodule: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays
fetch: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays
argv-array: fix bogus cast when freeing array
argv-array: add pop function
Optimise the "merge-base" computation a bit, and also update its
users that do not need the full merge-base information to call a
cheaper subset.
* jc/merge-bases:
reduce_heads(): reimplement on top of remove_redundant()
merge-base: "--is-ancestor A B"
get_merge_bases_many(): walk from many tips in parallel
in_merge_bases(): use paint_down_to_common()
merge_bases_many(): split out the logic to paint history
in_merge_bases(): omit unnecessary redundant common ancestor reduction
http-push: use in_merge_bases() for fast-forward check
receive-pack: use in_merge_bases() for fast-forward check
in_merge_bases(): support only one "other" commit
"git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
* jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name:
split_ident_line(): make best effort when parsing author/committer line
* jc/capabilities:
fetch-pack: mention server version with verbose output
parse_feature_request: make it easier to see feature values
fetch-pack: do not ask for unadvertised capabilities
do not send client agent unless server does first
send-pack: fix capability-sending logic
include agent identifier in capability string
"git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
MAKEFILE can get confused on a case insensitive filesystem, because
the check we run to see if there is a corresponding file in the
working tree with lstat("MAKEFILE") succeeds. In addition to that
check, we have to make sure that the given path also exists in the
commit we start digging history from (i.e. "HEAD").
Note that this reveals the breakage in a test added in cd8ae20
(git-blame shouldn't crash if run in an unmerged tree, 2007-10-18),
which expects the entire merge-in-progress path to be blamed to the
working tree when it did not exist in our tree. As it is clear in
the log message of that commit, the old breakage was that it was
causing an internal error and the fix was about avoiding it.
Just check that the command does not die an uncontrolled death. For
this particular case, the blame should fail, as the history for the
file in that contents has not been committed yet at the point in the
test.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch --set-upstream origin/master" is a common mistake to
create a local branch 'origin/master' and set it to integrate with
the current branch. With a plan to deprecate this option, introduce
"git branch (-u|--set-upstream-to) origin/master" that sets the
current branch to integrate with 'origin/master' remote tracking
branch.
* cn/branch-set-upstream-to:
branch: deprecate --set-upstream and show help if we detect possible mistaken use
branch: add --unset-upstream option
branch: introduce --set-upstream-to
"git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and
then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that
order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally expects.
* mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order:
cherry-pick/revert: respect order of revisions to pick
demonstrate broken 'git cherry-pick three one two'
teach log --no-walk=unsorted, which avoids sorting
We tried to bend backwards to allow "--quiet" to be a synonym as
"-s" when given as e.g. "git show --quiet", but did not quite
succeed.
* jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log:
log: fix --quiet synonym for -s
"git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
* bc/prune-info:
prune.c: only print informational message in show_only or verbose mode
* maint-1.7.11:
Almost 1.7.11.6
gitweb: URL-decode $my_url/$my_uri when stripping PATH_INFO
rebase -i: use full onto sha1 in reflog
sh-setup: protect from exported IFS
receive-pack: do not leak output from auto-gc to standard output
t/t5400: demonstrate breakage caused by informational message from prune
setup: clarify error messages for file/revisions ambiguity
send-email: improve RFC2047 quote parsing
fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries
do not write null sha1s to on-disk index
diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
* bc/receive-pack-stdout-protection:
receive-pack: do not leak output from auto-gc to standard output
t/t5400: demonstrate breakage caused by informational message from prune
"git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
* jk/maint-null-in-trees:
fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries
do not write null sha1s to on-disk index
diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
We already strip the more common Re: and re:, and we do not often
see RE: from saner MUA, but this prefix does exist and gets used
from time to time.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
localized, but the code to align it along with the names of branches
were counting in bytes, not in display columns.
* nd/branch-v-alignment:
branch -v: align even when branch names are in UTF-8
"git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or
mode changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different
places in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer
from this problem.
* jc/apply-binary-p0:
apply: compute patch->def_name correctly under -p0
"git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path when
there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. Update the
command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such a case.
* jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory:
specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set
A lot of i18n mark-up for the help text from "git <cmd> -h".
* nd/i18n-parseopt-help: (66 commits)
Use imperative form in help usage to describe an action
Reduce translations by using same terminologies
i18n: write-tree: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: verify-tag: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: verify-pack: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: update-server-info: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: update-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: update-index: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: tag: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: symbolic-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: show-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: show-branch: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: shortlog: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: rm: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: revert, cherry-pick: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: rev-parse: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: reset: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: rerere: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: status: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: replace: mark parseopt strings for translation
...
When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read
them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing
files that we cannot read.
* jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths:
warn_on_inaccessible(): a helper to warn on inaccessible paths
attr: warn on inaccessible attribute files
gitignore: report access errors of exclude files
config: warn on inaccessible files
"git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
option.
* kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort:
for-each-ref: Fix sort with multiple keys
t6300: test sort with multiple keys
Teach "git commit" and "git commit-tree" the "we are told to use
utf-8 in log message, but this does not look like utf-8---attempt to
pass it through convert-from-latin1-to-utf8 and see if it makes
sense" heuristics "git mailinfo" already uses.
* lt/commit-tree-guess-utf-8:
commit/commit-tree: correct latin1 to utf-8
While looking for a way to expand the URL of a remote
that uses a 'url.<name>.insteadOf' config option I stumbled
over the undocumented '--get-url' option of 'git ls-remote'.
This adds some minimum documentation for that option.
And while at it, also add that option to the '-h' output.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When fetch is invoked with --all, we need to pass the tag-following
preference to each individual fetch; without this, we will always
auto-follow tags, preventing us from fetching the remote tags into a
remote-specific namespace, for example.
Reported-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Johnson <ComputerDruid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All remote subcommands are spelled out words except 'rm'. 'rm', being a
popular UNIX command name, may mislead users that there are also 'ls' or
'mv'. Use 'remove' to fit with the rest of subcommands.
'rm' is still supported and used in the test suite. It's just not
widely advertised.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to updating the xstrdup(mkpath(...)) call sites with
mkpathdup(), we also fix a memory leak (in merge_3way()) caused by
neglecting to free the memory allocated to the 'base_name' variable.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to updating the two xstrdup(git_path("...")) call sites
with git_pathdup(), we also fix a memory leak by freeing the memory
allocated to the ADD_EDIT.patch 'file' in the edit_patch() function.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cherry-pick" by default stops when it sees a commit without any
log message. The "--allow-empty-message" option can be used to
silently proceed.
* cw/cherry-pick-allow-empty-message:
cherry-pick: add --allow-empty-message option
The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
being incorrect. Update the implementation to give the documented
status for a case that was documented, and introduce a new code for
"all other errors".
* jc/maint-config-exit-status:
config: "git config baa" should exit with status 1
fetch_populated_submodules() allocates the full argv array it uses to
recurse into the submodules from the number of given options plus the six
argv values it is going to add. It then initializes it with those values
which won't change during the iteration and copies the given options into
it. Inside the loop the two argv values different for each submodule get
replaced with those currently valid.
However, this technique is brittle and error-prone (as the comment to
explain the magic number 6 indicates), so let's replace it with an
argv_array. Instead of replacing the argv values, push them to the
argv_array just before the run_command() call (including the option
separating them) and pop them from the argv_array right after that.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fetch invokes itself recursively when recursing into
submodules or handling "fetch --multiple". In both cases, it
builds the child's command line by pushing options onto a
statically-sized array. In both cases, the array is
currently just big enough to handle the largest possible
case. However, this technique is brittle and error-prone, so
let's replace it with a dynamic argv_array.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commits made by ancient version of Git allowed committer without
human readable name, like this (00213b17c in the kernel history):
tree 6947dba41f8b0e7fe7bccd41a4840d6de6a27079
parent 352dd1df32e672be4cff71132eb9c06a257872fe
author Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> 1135223044 +0100
committer <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> 1136151043 +0100
kconfig: Remove support for lxdialog --checklist
...
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
When fed such a commit, --format='%ci' fails to parse it, and gives
back an empty string. Update the split_ident_line() to be a bit
more lenient when parsing, but make sure the caller that wants to
pick up sane value from its return value does its own validation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In many scripted Porcelain commands, we find this idiom:
if test "$(git rev-parse --verify A)" = "$(git merge-base A B)"
then
... A is an ancestor of B ...
fi
But you do not have to compute exact merge-base only to see if A is
an ancestor of B. Give them a more direct way to use the underlying
machinery.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When giving multiple individual revisions to cherry-pick or revert, as
in 'git cherry-pick A B' or 'git revert B A', one would expect them to
be picked/reverted in the order given on the command line. They are
instead ordered by their commit timestamp -- in chronological order
for "cherry-pick" and in reverse chronological order for
"revert". This matches the order in which one would usually give them
on the command line, making this bug somewhat hard to notice. Still,
it has been reported at least once before [1].
It seems like the chronological sorting happened by accident because
the revision walker has traditionally always sorted commits in reverse
chronological order when rev_info.no_walk was enabled. In the case of
'git revert B A' where B is newer than A, this sorting is a no-op. For
'git cherry-pick A B', the sorting would reverse the arguments, but
because the sequencer also flips the rev_info.reverse flag when
picking (as opposed to reverting), the end result is a chronological
order. The rev_info.reverse flag was probably flipped so that the
revision walker emits B before C in 'git cherry-pick A..C'; that it
happened to effectively undo the unexpected sorting done when not
walking, was probably a coincidence that allowed this bug to happen at
all.
Fix the bug by telling the revision walker not to sort the commits
when not walking. The only case we want to reverse the order is now
when cherry-picking and walking revisions (rev_info.no_walk = 0).
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/164794
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 'git log' is passed the --no-walk option, no revision walk takes
place, naturally. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, however, the provided
revisions still get sorted by commit date. So e.g 'git log --no-walk
HEAD HEAD~1' and 'git log --no-walk HEAD~1 HEAD' give the same result
(unless the two revisions share the commit date, in which case they
will retain the order given on the command line). As the commit that
introduced --no-walk (8e64006 (Teach revision machinery about
--no-walk, 2007-07-24)) points out, the sorting is intentional, to
allow things like
git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --decorate --all --no-walk
to show all refs in order by commit date.
But there are also other cases where the sorting is not wanted, such
as
<command producing revisions in order> |
git log --oneline --no-walk --stdin
To accomodate both cases, leave the decision of whether or not to sort
up to the caller, by allowing --no-walk={sorted,unsorted}, defaulting
to 'sorted' for backward-compatibility reasons.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This interface is error prone, and a better one (--set-upstream-to)
exists. Add a message listing the alternatives and suggest how to fix
a --set-upstream invocation in case the user only gives one argument
which causes a local branch with the same name as a remote-tracking
one to be created. The typical case is
git branch --set-upstream origin/master
when the user meant
git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
assuming that the current branch is master. Show a message telling the
user how to undo their action and get what they wanted. For the
command above, the message would be
The --set-upstream flag is deprecated and will be removed. Consider using --track or --set-upstream-to
Branch origin/master set up to track local branch master.
If you wanted to make 'master' track 'origin/master', do this:
git branch -d origin/master
git branch --set-upstream-to origin/master
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have ways of setting the upstream information, but if we want to
unset it, we need to resort to modifying the configuration manually.
Teach branch an --unset-upstream option that unsets this information.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack did
not advertise that they are available. Fix fetch-pack not to do so.
* jc/capabilities:
fetch-pack: mention server version with verbose output
parse_feature_request: make it easier to see feature values
fetch-pack: do not ask for unadvertised capabilities
do not send client agent unless server does first
send-pack: fix capability-sending logic
include agent identifier in capability string
Teach "git prune" without "-v" to be silent about leftover temporary
files.
* bc/prune-info:
prune.c: only print informational message in show_only or verbose mode
Minor code clean-up on the cherry-pick codepath.
* mz/cherry-code-cleanup:
cherry: remove redundant check for merge commit
cherry: don't set ignored rev_info options
remove unnecessary parameter from get_patch_ids()
This struct contains various switches to system and it feels somewhat
safer to have the compiler reassure us that nowhere else changes it.
One field that is changed, writeout_error, is split out and passed as
another argument.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Originally the "--quiet" option was parsed by the
diff-option parser into the internal QUICK option. This had
the effect of silencing diff output from the log (which was
not intended, but happened to work and people started to
use it). But it also had other odd side effects at the diff
level (for example, it would suppress the second commit in
"git show A B").
To fix this, commit 1c40c36 converted log to parse-options
and handled the "quiet" option separately, not passing it
on to the diff code. However, it simply ignored the option,
which was a regression for people using it as a synonym for
"-s". Commit 01771a8 then fixed that by interpreting the
option to add DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT to the list of output
formats.
However, that commit did not fix it in all cases. It sets
the flag after setup_revisions is called. Naively, this
makes sense because you would expect the setup_revisions
parser to overwrite our output format flag if "-p" or
another output format flag is seen.
However, that is not how the NO_OUTPUT flag works. We
actually store it in the bit-field as just another format.
At the end of setup_revisions, we call diff_setup_done,
which post-processes the bitfield and clears any other
formats if we have set NO_OUTPUT. By setting the flag after
setup_revisions is done, diff_setup_done does not have a
chance to make this tweak, and we end up with other format
options still set.
As a result, the flag would have no effect in "git log -p
--quiet" or "git show --quiet". Fix it by setting the
format flag before the call to setup_revisions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original computed merge-base between the old commit and the new
commit and checked if the old commit was a merge base between them,
in order to make sure we are fast-forwarding.
Instead, call in_merge_bases(old, new) which does the same.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In early days of its life, I planned to make it possible to compute
"is a commit contained in all of these other commits?" with this
function, but it turned out that no caller needed it.
Just make it take two commit objects and add a comment to say what
these two functions do.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if a
configuration variable tells it to.
* js/grep-patterntype-config:
grep: add a grep.patternType configuration setting
When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
* bc/receive-pack-stdout-protection:
receive-pack: do not leak output from auto-gc to standard output
t/t5400: demonstrate breakage caused by informational message from prune
We do not want a link to 0{40} object stored anywhere in our objects.
* jk/maint-null-in-trees:
fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries
do not write null sha1s to on-disk index
diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
In the next major release, we will switch "git push [$there]" that
does not say what to push from the traditional "matching" to the
updated "simple" semantics, that pushes the current branch to the
branch with the same name only when the current branch is set to
integrate with that remote branch (all other cases will error out).
* mm/push-default-switch-warning:
push: start warning upcoming default change for push.default
Branch names are usually in ASCII so they are not the problem. The
problem most likely comes from "(no branch)" translation, which is
in UTF-8 and makes display-width calculation just wrong. Clarify
this by renaming the field "len" in struct ref_item to "width", as
it stores the display-width and is used to compute the width of the
screen needed to show the names of all the branches, and compute the
display width using utf8_strwidth(), not byte-length with strlen().
Update document to mention the fact that we may want ref names in
UTF-8. Encodings that produce invalid UTF-8 are safe as utf8_strwidth()
falls back to strlen(). The ones that incidentally produce valid UTF-8
sequences will cause misalignment.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back when "git apply" was written, we made sure that the user can
skip more than the default number of path components (i.e. 1) by
giving "-p<n>", but the logic for doing so was built around the
notion of "we skip N slashes and stop". This obviously does not
work well when running under -p0 where we do not want to skip any,
but still want to skip SP/HT that separates the pathnames of
preimage and postimage and want to reject absolute pathnames.
Stop using "stop_at_slash()", and instead introduce a new helper
"skip_tree_prefix()" with similar logic but works correctly even for
the -p0 case.
This is an ancient bug, but has been masked for a long time because
most of the patches are text and have other clues to tell us the
name of the preimage and the postimage.
Noticed by Colin McCabe.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Either end of revision range operator can be omitted to default to HEAD,
as in "origin.." (what did I do since I forked) or "..origin" (what did
they do since I forked). But the current parser interprets ".." as an
empty range "HEAD..HEAD", and worse yet, because ".." does exist on the
filesystem, we get this annoying output:
$ cd Documentation/howto
$ git log .. ;# give me recent commits that touch Documentation/ area.
fatal: ambiguous argument '..': both revision and filename
Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions
Surely we could say "git log ../" or even "git log -- .." to disambiguate,
but we shouldn't have to.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing --set-uptream option can cause confusion, as it uses the
usual branch convention of assuming a starting point of HEAD if none
is specified, causing
git branch --set-upstream origin/master
to create a new local branch 'origin/master' that tracks the current
branch. As --set-upstream already exists, we can't simply change its
behaviour. To work around this, introduce --set-upstream-to which
accepts a compulsory argument indicating what the new upstream branch
should be and one optinal argument indicating which branch to change,
defaulting to HEAD.
The new options allows us to type
git branch --set-upstream-to origin/master
to set the current branch's upstream to be origin's master.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Somewhere in help usage, we use both "message" and "msg", "command"
and "cmd", "key id" and "key-id". This patch makes all help text from
parseopt use the first form. Clearer and 3 fewer strings for
translators.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a line in the message is not a valid utf-8, "git mailinfo"
attempts to convert it to utf-8 assuming the input is latin1 (and
punt if it does not convert cleanly). Using the same heuristics in
"git commit" and "git commit-tree" lets the editor output be in
latin1 to make the overall system more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before reading a config file, we check "!access(path, R_OK)"
to make sure that the file exists and is readable. If it's
not, then we silently ignore it.
For the case of ENOENT, this is fine, as the presence of the
file is optional. For other cases, though, it may indicate a
configuration error (e.g., not having permissions to read
the file). Let's print a warning in these cases to let the
user know.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The linked list describing sort options was not correctly set up in
opt_parse_sort. In the result, contrary to the documentation, only the
last of multiple --sort options to git-for-each-ref was taken into
account. This commit fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fetch-pack's verbose mode is more of a debugging mode (and
in fact takes two "-v" arguments to trigger via the
porcelain layer). Let's mention the server version as
another possible item of interest.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the same spirit as the previous fix, stop asking for thin-pack, no-progress
and include-tag capabilities when the other end does not claim to support them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit ff5effdf taught both clients and servers of the git protocol
to send an "agent" capability that just advertises their version for
statistics and debugging purposes. The protocol-capabilities.txt
document however indicates that the client's advertisement is
actually a response, and should never include capabilities not
mentioned in the server's advertisement.
Adding the unconditional advertisement in the server programs was
OK, then, but the clients broke the protocol. The server
implementation of git-core itself does not care, but at least one
does: the Google Code git server (or any server using Dulwich), will
hang up with an internal error upon seeing an unknown capability.
Instead, each client must record whether we saw an agent string from
the server, and respond with its agent only if the server mentioned
it first.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we have capabilities to send to the server, we send the
regular "want" line followed by a NUL, then the
capabilities; otherwise, we do not even send the NUL.
However, when checking whether we want to send the "quiet"
capability, we check args->quiet, which is wrong. That flag
only tells us whether the client side wanted to be quiet,
not whether the server supports it (originally, in c207e34f,
it meant both; however, that was later split into two flags
by 01fdc21f).
We still check the right flag when actually printing
"quiet", so this could only have two effects:
1. We might send the trailing NUL when we do not otherwise
need to. In theory, an antique pre-capability
implementation of git might choke on this (since the
client is instructed never to respond with capabilities
that the server has not first advertised).
2. We might also want to send the quiet flag if the
args->progress flag is false, but this code path would
not trigger in that instance.
In practice, it almost certainly never matters. The
report-status capability dates back to 2005. Any real-world
server is going to advertise that, and we will always
respond with at least that capability.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git prune" reports removal of loose object files that are no longer
necessary only under the "-v" option, but unconditionally reports
removal of temporary files that are no longer needed.
The original thinking was that the presence of a leftover temporary
file should be an unusual occurrence that may indicate an earlier
failure of some sort, and the user may want to be reminded of it.
Removing an unnecessary loose object file, on the other hand, is
just part of the normal operation. That is why the former is always
printed out and the latter only when -v is used.
But neither report is particularly useful. Hide both of these
behind the "-v" option for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The standard output channel of receive-pack is a structured protocol
channel, and subprocesses must never be allowed to leak anything
into it by writing to their standard output.
Use RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR option to run_command_v_opt() just
like we do when running hooks to prevent output from "gc" leaking to
the standard output.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Scripts such as "git rebase -i" cannot currently cherry-pick commits
which have an empty commit message, as git cherry-pick calls git
commit without the --allow-empty-message option.
Add an --allow-empty-message option to git cherry-pick which is passed
through to git commit, so this behaviour can be overridden.
Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It hasn't been used since 2006, as of commit 3cd4f5e8
"git-apply --binary: clean up and prepare for --reverse"
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of having the client advertise a particular version
number in the git protocol, we have managed extensions and
backwards compatibility by having clients and servers
advertise capabilities that they support. This is far more
robust than having each side consult a table of
known versions, and provides sufficient information for the
protocol interaction to complete.
However, it does not allow servers to keep statistics on
which client versions are being used. This information is
not necessary to complete the network request (the
capabilities provide enough information for that), but it
may be helpful to conduct a general survey of client
versions in use.
We already send the client version in the user-agent header
for http requests; adding it here allows us to gather
similar statistics for non-http requests.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff_setup_done() has historically returned an error code, but lost
the last nonzero return in 943d5b7 (allow diff.renamelimit to be set
regardless of -M/-C, 2006-08-09). The callers were in a pretty
confused state: some actually checked for the return code, and some
did not.
Let it return void, and patch all callers to take this into account.
This conveniently also gets rid of a handful of different(!) error
messages that could never be triggered anyway.
Note that the function can still die().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The grep.extendedRegexp configuration setting enables the -E flag on grep
by default but there are no equivalents for the -G, -F and -P flags.
Rather than adding an additional setting for grep.fooRegexp for current
and future pattern matching options, add a grep.patternType setting that
can accept appropriate values for modifying the default grep pattern
matching behavior. The current values are "basic", "extended", "fixed",
"perl" and "default" for setting -G, -E, -F, -P and the default behavior
respectively.
When grep.patternType is set to a value other than "default", the
grep.extendedRegexp setting is ignored. The value of "default" restores
the current default behavior, including the grep.extendedRegexp
behavior.
Signed-off-by: J Smith <dark.panda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
* kk/maint-commit-tree:
Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis"
commit-tree: resurrect command line parsing updates
We instead failed with an undocumented exit status 255.
Also define a "catch-all" status and document it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While walking the revision list in get_patch_ids and cmd_cherry, we
check for each commit if there is more than one parent and ignore
the commit if that is the case. Instead, set rev_info.max_parents to
1 and let the revision traversal code handle it for us.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since cherry was built-in in e827633 (Built-in cherry,
2006-10-24), it has set a bunch of options on the the rev_info that
are only used while outputting a patch. But since the built-in cherry
command never needs to output any patch (it uses add_commit_patch_id
and has_commit_patch_id instead), these options are just distractions,
so remove them.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diff code represents paths using the diff_filespec
struct. This struct has a sha1 to represent the sha1 of the
content at that path, as well as a sha1_valid member which
indicates whether its sha1 field is actually useful. If
sha1_valid is not true, then the filespec represents a
working tree file (e.g., for the no-index case, or for when
the index is not up-to-date).
The diff_filespec is only used internally, though. At the
interfaces to the diff subsystem, callers feed the sha1
directly, and we create a diff_filespec from it. It's at
that point that we look at the sha1 and decide whether it is
valid or not; callers may pass the null sha1 as a sentinel
value to indicate that it is not.
We should not typically see the null sha1 coming from any
other source (e.g., in the index itself, or from a tree).
However, a corrupt tree might have a null sha1, which would
cause "diff --patch" to accidentally diff the working tree
version of a file instead of treating it as a blob.
This patch extends the edges of the diff interface to accept
a "sha1_valid" flag whenever we accept a sha1, and to use
that flag when creating a filespec. In some cases, this
means passing the flag through several layers, making the
code change larger than would be desirable.
One alternative would be to simply die() upon seeing
corrupted trees with null sha1s. However, this fix more
directly addresses the problem (while bogus sha1s in a tree
are probably a bad thing, it is really the sentinel
confusion sending us down the wrong code path that is what
makes it devastating). And it means that git is more capable
of examining and debugging these corrupted trees. For
example, you can still "diff --raw" such a tree to find out
when the bogus entry was introduced; you just cannot do a
"--patch" diff (just as you could not with any other
corrupted tree, as we do not have any content to diff).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
get_patch_ids() takes an already initialized rev_info and a
prefix. The prefix is used when initalizing a second rev_info. Since
the initialized rev_info already has a prefix and the prefix never
changes, we can use the prefix from the initialized rev_info to
initialize the second rev_info.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout <branchname>" to come back from a detached HEAD state
incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting in
unnecessary warnings.
* jk/maint-checkout-orphan-check-fix:
checkout: don't confuse ref and object flags
When we are leaving a detached HEAD, we do a revision traversal to
check whether we are orphaning any commits, marking the commit we're
leaving as the start of the traversal, and all existing refs as
uninteresting.
Prior to commit 468224e5, we did so by calling for_each_ref, and
feeding each resulting refname to setup_revisions. Commit 468224e5
refactored this to simply mark the pending objects, saving an extra
lookup.
However, it confused the "flags" parameter to the each_ref_fn
clalback, which is about the flags we found while looking up the ref
with the object flag. Because REF_ISSYMREF ("this ref is a symbolic
ref, e.g. refs/remotes/origin/HEAD") happens to be the same bit
pattern as SEEN ("we have picked this object up from the pending
list and moved it to revs.commits list"), we incorrectly reported
that a commit previously at the detached HEAD will become
unreachable if the only ref that can reach the commit happens to be
pointed at by a symbolic ref.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died
when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by
getpwent(3).
* jk/maint-commit-check-committer-early:
commit: check committer identity more strictly
Split lower bits of ce_flags field and creates a new ce_namelen
field in the in-core index structure.
* tg/ce-namelen-field:
Strip namelen out of ce_flags into a ce_namelen field
The identity of the committer will ultimately be pulled from
the ident code by commit_tree(). However, we make an attempt
to check the author and committer identity early, before the
user has done any manual work like inputting a commit
message. That lets us abort without them having to worry
about salvaging the work from .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG.
The early check for committer ident does not use the
IDENT_STRICT flag, meaning that it would not find an empty
name field. The motivation was presumably because we did not
want to be too restrictive, as later calls might be more lax
(for example, when we create the reflog entry, we do not
care too much about a real name). However, because
commit_tree will always get a strict identity to put in the
commit object itself, there is no point in being lax only to
die later (and in fact it is harmful, because the user will
have wasted time typing their commit message).
Incidentally, this bug was masked prior to 060d4bb, as the
initial loose call would taint the later strict call. So the
commit would succeed (albeit with a bogus committer line in
the commit object), and nobody noticed that our early check
did not match the later one.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than
necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group
writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").
* ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top:
add: create ADD_EDIT.patch with mode 0666
rerere: make rr-cache fanout directory honor umask
Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by clone
"commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log
message, with or without "--allow-empty-message".
* cw/amend-commit-without-message:
Allow edit of empty message with commit --amend
"git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to
rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they
have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but
it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era.
* jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths:
commit: fix "--amend --only" with no pathspec
"git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and
unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it
walks.
* tr/maint-show-walk:
show: fix "range implies walking"
Demonstrate git-show is broken with ranges
"git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without
properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them.
* js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces:
fast-export: quote paths with spaces
"git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,
should be forbidden, but it wasn't.
* cw/no-detaching-an-unborn:
git-checkout: disallow --detach on unborn branch
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output
is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish,
and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to
prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
* jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits)
t1512: match the "other" object names
t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output
rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix>
rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish
reset: the command takes committish
commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits
apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs
sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types
revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish
revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags
sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish()
sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context()
sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish
sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags
sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits
sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option
sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags
get_sha1(): fix error status regression
sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names
sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res"
...
79a9312 (commit-tree: update the command line parsing, 2011-11-09)
updated the command line parser to understand the usual "flags first
and then non-flag arguments" order, in addition to the original and
a bit unusual "tree comes first and then zero or more -p <parent>".
Unfortunately, ba3c69a (commit: teach --gpg-sign option, 2011-10-05)
broke it by mistake. Resurrect it, and protect the feature with a
test from future breakages.
Noticed by Keshav Kini
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When $HOME is unset, home_config_paths fails and returns NULL pointers
for user_config and xdg_config. Valgrind complains with Syscall param
access(pathname) points to unaddressable byte(s).
Don't call blindly access() on these variables, but test them for
NULL-ness before.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The streaming index-pack introduced in 1.7.11 had a data corruption
bug, and this should fix it.
* jk/index-pack-streaming-fix:
index-pack: loop while inflating objects in unpack_data
"git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to
rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they
have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but
it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era.
* jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths:
commit: fix "--amend --only" with no pathspec
"commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log
message, with or without "--allow-empty-message".
* cw/amend-commit-without-message:
Allow edit of empty message with commit --amend
A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than
necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group
writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").
* ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top:
add: create ADD_EDIT.patch with mode 0666
rerere: make rr-cache fanout directory honor umask
Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by clone
"git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way
merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.
* jc/apply-3way:
apply: tests for the --3way option
apply: document --3way option
apply: allow rerere() to work on --3way results
apply: register conflicted stages to the index
apply: --3way with add/add conflict
apply: move verify_index_match() higher
apply: plug the three-way merge logic in
apply: fall back on three-way merge
apply: accept -3/--3way command line option
apply: move "already exists" logic to check_to_create()
apply: move check_to_create_blob() closer to its sole caller
apply: further split load_preimage()
apply: refactor "previous patch" logic
apply: split load_preimage() helper function out
apply: factor out checkout_target() helper function
apply: refactor read_file_or_gitlink()
apply: clear_image() clears things a bit more
apply: a bit more comments on PATH_TO_BE_DELETED
apply: fix an incomplete comment in check_patch()
Teaches git to normalize pathnames read from readdir(3) and all
arguments from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming
that they come as decomposed UTF-8) to work around issues on Mac OS.
I think there still are other places that need conversion
(e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
should be a good first step in the right direction.
* tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname:
git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode
Fixes "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour, and make it behave just
like "git log" does when it walks.
* tr/maint-show-walk:
show: fix "range implies walking"
Demonstrate git-show is broken with ranges
"git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit
object names in its output are unique.
* jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev:
blame: compute abbreviation width that ensures uniqueness
On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our own
compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack program.
Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to avoid use of
this function in a threaded program.
* rj/platform-pread-may-be-thread-unsafe:
index-pack: Disable threading on cygwin
"git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
the cloning to the specified branch.
* nd/clone-single-fix:
clone: fix ref selection in --single-branch --branch=xxx
"git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a submodule
used to exist, but "git update-index" did not allow an equivalent
operation to Porcelain writers.
* hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules:
update-index: allow overwriting existing submodule index entries
"git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly.
* jk/diff-no-index-pager:
do not run pager with diff --no-index --quiet
fix pager.diff with diff --no-index
"git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.
* mm/verify-filename-fix:
verify_filename(): ask the caller to chose the kind of diagnosis
sha1_name: do not trigger detailed diagnosis for file arguments
"git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
updated.
* jc/ls-files-i-dir:
dir.c: make excluded() file scope static
unpack-trees.c: use path_excluded() in check_ok_to_remove()
builtin/add.c: use path_excluded()
path_excluded(): update API to less cache-entry centric
ls-files -i: micro-optimize path_excluded()
ls-files -i: pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
Strip the name length from the ce_flags field and move it
into its own ce_namelen field in struct cache_entry. This
will both give us a tiny bit of a performance enhancement
when working with long pathnames and is a refactoring for
more readability of the code.
It enhances readability, by making it more clear what
is a flag, and where the length is stored and make it clear
which functions use stages in comparisions and which only
use the length.
It also makes CE_NAMEMASK private, so that users don't
mistakenly write the name length in the flags.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the unpack_data function is given a consume() callback,
it unpacks only 64K of the input at a time, feeding it to
git_inflate along with a 64K output buffer. However,
because we are inflating, there is a good chance that the
output buffer will fill before consuming all of the input.
In this case, we need to loop on git_inflate until we have
fed the whole input buffer, feeding each chunk of output to
the consume buffer.
The current code does not do this, and as a result, will
fail the loop condition and trigger a fatal "serious inflate
inconsistency" error in this case.
While we're rearranging the loop, let's get rid of the
extra last_out pointer. It is meant to point to the
beginning of the buffer that we feed to git_inflate, but in
practice this is always the beginning of our same 64K
buffer, because:
1. At the beginning of the loop, we are feeding the
buffer.
2. At the end of the loop, if we are using a consume()
function, we reset git_inflate's pointer to the
beginning of the buffer. If we are not using a
consume() function, then we do not care about the value
of last_out at all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We should be letting the user's umask take care of
restricting permissions. Even though this is a temporary
file and probably nobody would notice, this brings us in
line with other temporary file creations in git (e.g.,
choosing "e"dit from git-add--interactive).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new option allows you to feed an ambiguous prefix and enumerate
all the objects that share it as a prefix of their object names.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is not strictly correct, in that resetting selected index
entries from corresponding paths out of a given tree without moving
HEAD is a valid operation, and in such case a tree-ish would suffice.
But the existing code already requires a committish in the codepath,
so let's be consistent with it for now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "index" line read from the patch to reconstruct a partial
preimage tree records the object names of blob objects.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a field to setup_revision_opt structure and allow these callers
to tell the setup_revisions command parsing machinery that short SHA1
it encounters are meant to name committish.
This step does not go all the way to connect the setup_revisions()
to sha1_name.c yet.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing "cant_be_filename" that tells the function that the
caller knows the arg is not a path (hence it does not have to be
checked for absense of the file whose name matches it) is made into
a bit in the flag word.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function takes user input string and returns the object name
(binary SHA-1) with mode bits and path when the object was looked
up in a tree.
Additionally give hints to help disambiguation of abbreviated object
names when the caller knows what it is looking for.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now we have all the necessary logic to fall back on three-way merge when
the patch does not cleanly apply, insert the conflicted entries to the
index as appropriate. This obviously triggers only when the "--index"
option is used.
When we fall back to three-way merge and some of the merges fail, just
like the case where the "--reject" option was specified and we had to
write some "*.rej" files out for unapplicable patches, exit the command
with non-zero status without showing the diffstat and summary. Otherwise
they would make the list of problematic paths scroll off the display.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a patch wants to create a path, but we already have it in our
current state, pretend as if the patch and we independently added
the same path and cause add/add conflict, so that the user can
resolve it just like "git merge" in the same situation.
For that purpose, implement load_current() in terms of the
load_patch_target() helper introduced earlier to read the current
contents from the path given by patch->new_name (patch->old_name is
NULL for a creation patch).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a patch does not apply to what we have, but we know the preimage the
patch was made against, we apply the patch to the preimage to compute what
the patch author wanted the result to look like, and attempt a three-way
merge between the result and our version, using the intended preimage as
the base version.
When we are applying the patch using the index, we would additionally need
to add the object names of these three blobs involved in the merge, which
is not yet done in this step, but we add a field to "struct patch" so that
later write-out step can use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Grab the preimage blob the patch claims to be based on out of the object
store, apply the patch, and then call three-way-merge function. This step
still does not plug the actual three-way merge logic yet, but we are
getting there.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Begin teaching the three-way merge fallback logic "git am -3" uses
to the underlying "git apply". It only implements the command line
parsing part, and does not do anything interesting yet, other than
making sure that "--reject" and "--3way" are not given together, and
making "--3way" imply "--index".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The check_to_create_blob() function used to check only the case
where we are applying to the working tree. Rename the function to
check_to_create() and make it also responsible for checking the case
where we apply to the index. Also make its caller responsible for
issuing an error message.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
load_preimage() is very specific to grab the current contents for
the path given by patch->old_name. Split the logic that grabs the
contents for a path out of it into a separate load_patch_target()
function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code to grab the result of application of a previous patch in the
input was mixed with error message generation for a case where a later
patch tries to modify contents of a path that has been removed.
The same code is duplicated elsewhere in the code. Introduce a helper
to clarify what is going on.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
