Mac OS X mangles file names containing unicode on file systems HFS+,
VFAT or SAMBA. When a file using unicode code points outside ASCII
is created on a HFS+ drive, the file name is converted into
decomposed unicode and written to disk. No conversion is done if
the file name is already decomposed unicode.
Calling open("\xc3\x84", ...) with a precomposed "Ä" yields the same
result as open("\x41\xcc\x88",...) with a decomposed "Ä".
As a consequence, readdir() returns the file names in decomposed
unicode, even if the user expects precomposed unicode. Unlike on
HFS+, Mac OS X stores files on a VFAT drive (e.g. an USB drive) in
precomposed unicode, but readdir() still returns file names in
decomposed unicode. When a git repository is stored on a network
share using SAMBA, file names are send over the wire and written to
disk on the remote system in precomposed unicode, but Mac OS X
readdir() returns decomposed unicode to be compatible with its
behaviour on HFS+ and VFAT.
The unicode decomposition causes many problems:
- The names "git add" and other commands get from the end user may
often be precomposed form (the decomposed form is not easily input
from the keyboard), but when the commands read from the filesystem
to see what it is going to update the index with already is on the
filesystem, readdir() will give decomposed form, which is different.
- Similarly "git log", "git mv" and all other commands that need to
compare pathnames found on the command line (often but not always
precomposed form; a command line input resulting from globbing may
be in decomposed) with pathnames found in the tree objects (should
be precomposed form to be compatible with other systems and for
consistency in general).
- The same for names stored in the index, which should be
precomposed, that may need to be compared with the names read from
readdir().
NFS mounted from Linux is fully transparent and does not suffer from
the above.
As Mac OS X treats precomposed and decomposed file names as equal,
we can
- wrap readdir() on Mac OS X to return the precomposed form, and
- normalize decomposed form given from the command line also to the
precomposed form,
to ensure that all pathnames used in Git are always in the
precomposed form. This behaviour can be requested by setting
"core.precomposedunicode" configuration variable to true.
The code in compat/precomposed_utf8.c implements basically 4 new
functions: precomposed_utf8_opendir(), precomposed_utf8_readdir(),
precomposed_utf8_closedir() and precompose_argv(). The first three
are to wrap opendir(3), readdir(3), and closedir(3) functions.
The argv[] conversion allows to use the TAB filename completion done
by the shell on command line. It tolerates other tools which use
readdir() to feed decomposed file names into git.
When creating a new git repository with "git init" or "git clone",
"core.precomposedunicode" will be set "false".
The user needs to activate this feature manually. She typically
sets core.precomposedunicode to "true" on HFS and VFAT, or file
systems mounted via SAMBA.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no reason anybody outside of ident.c should access
these directly (they should use the new accessors which make
sure the variables are initialized), so we can make them
file-scope statics.
While we're at it, move user_ident_explicitly_given into
ident.c; while still globally visible, it makes more sense
to reside with the ident code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pushing a non-fast-forward update to a remote repository will result in
an error, but the hint text doesn't provide the correct resolution in
every case. Give better resolution advice in three push scenarios:
1) If you push your current branch and it triggers a non-fast-forward
error, you should merge remote changes with 'git pull' before pushing
again.
2) If you push to a shared repository others push to, and your local
tracking branches are not kept up to date, the 'matching refs' default
will generate non-fast-forward errors on outdated branches. If this is
your workflow, the 'matching refs' default is not for you. Consider
setting the 'push.default' configuration variable to 'current' or
'upstream' to ensure only your current branch is pushed.
3) If you explicitly specify a ref that is not your current branch or
push matching branches with ':', you will generate a non-fast-forward
error if any pushed branch tip is out of date. You should checkout the
offending branch and merge remote changes before pushing again.
Teach transport.c to recognize these scenarios and configure push.c
to hint for them. If 'git push's default behavior changes or we
discover more scenarios, extension is easy. Standardize on the
advice API and add three new advice variables, 'pushNonFFCurrent',
'pushNonFFDefault', and 'pushNonFFMatching'. Setting any of these
to 'false' will disable their affiliated advice. Setting
'pushNonFastForward' to false will disable all three, thus preserving the
config option for users who already set it, but guaranteeing new
users won't disable push advice accidentally.
Based-on-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christopher Tiwald <christiwald@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/stream-to-pack:
bulk-checkin: replace fast-import based implementation
csum-file: introduce sha1file_checkpoint
finish_tmp_packfile(): a helper function
create_tmp_packfile(): a helper function
write_pack_header(): a helper function
Conflicts:
pack.h
* jc/request-pull-show-head-4:
request-pull: use the annotated tag contents
fmt-merge-msg.c: Fix an "dubious one-bit signed bitfield" sparse error
environment.c: Fix an sparse "symbol not declared" warning
builtin/log.c: Fix an "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" warning
fmt-merge-msg: use branch.$name.description
request-pull: use the branch description
request-pull: state what commit to expect
request-pull: modernize style
branch: teach --edit-description option
format-patch: use branch description in cover letter
branch: add read_branch_desc() helper function
Conflicts:
builtin/branch.c
This extends the earlier approach to stream a large file directly from the
filesystem to its own packfile, and allows "git add" to send large files
directly into a single pack. Older code used to spawn fast-import, but the
new bulk-checkin API replaces it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In particular, sparse issues the following warning:
environment.c:62:5: warning: symbol 'merge_log_config' was not \
declared. Should it be static?
In order to supress the warning, we include the "fmt-merge-msg.h"
header file, since it contains an appropriate extern declaration for
the 'merge_log_config' variable.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches "merge --log" and fmt-merge-msg to use branch description
information when merging a local topic branch into the mainline. The
description goes between the branch name label and the list of commit
titles.
The refactoring to share the common configuration parsing between
merge and fmt-merge-msg needs to be made into a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This code calls git_config from a helper function to parse the config entry
it is interested in. Calling git_config in this way may cause a problem if
the helper function can be called after a previous call to git_config by
another function since the second call to git_config may reset some
variable to the value in the config file which was previously overridden.
The above is not a problem in this case since the function passed to
git_config only parses one config entry and the variable it sets is not
assigned outside of the parsing function. But a programmer who desires
all of the standard config options to be parsed may be tempted to modify
git_attr_config() so that it falls back to git_default_config() and then it
_would_ be vulnerable to the above described behavior.
So, move the call to git_config up into the top-level cmd_* function and
move the responsibility for parsing core.attributesfile into the main
config file parser.
Which is only the logical thing to do ;-)
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change check_ref_format() to take a flags argument that indicates what
is acceptable in the reference name (analogous to "git
check-ref-format"'s "--allow-onelevel" and "--refspec-pattern"). This
is more convenient for callers and also fixes a failure in the test
suite (and likely elsewhere in the code) by enabling "onelevel" and
"refspec-pattern" to be allowed independently of each other.
Also rename check_ref_format() to check_refname_format() to make it
obvious that it deals with refnames rather than references themselves.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function was not gentle at all to the callers and died without giving
them a chance to deal with possible errors. Rename it to read_gitfile(),
and update all the callers.
As no existing caller needs a true "gently" variant, we do not bother
adding one at this point.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a workload other than "git log" (without pathspec nor any option that
causes us to inspect trees and blobs), the recency pack order is said to
cause the access jump around quite a bit. Add a hook to allow us observe
how bad it is.
"git config core.logpackaccess /var/tmp/pal.txt" will give you the log
in the specified file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for dividing the refs of a single repository into multiple
namespaces, each of which can have its own branches, tags, and HEAD.
Git can expose each namespace as an independent repository to pull from
and push to, while sharing the object store, and exposing all the refs
to operations such as git-gc.
Storing multiple repositories as namespaces of a single repository
avoids storing duplicate copies of the same objects, such as when
storing multiple branches of the same source. The alternates mechanism
provides similar support for avoiding duplicates, but alternates do not
prevent duplication between new objects added to the repositories
without ongoing maintenance, while namespaces do.
To specify a namespace, set the GIT_NAMESPACE environment variable to
the namespace. For each ref namespace, git stores the corresponding
refs in a directory under refs/namespaces/. For example,
GIT_NAMESPACE=foo will store refs under refs/namespaces/foo/. You can
also specify namespaces via the --namespace option to git.
Note that namespaces which include a / will expand to a hierarchy of
namespaces; for example, GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar will store refs under
refs/namespaces/foo/refs/namespaces/bar/. This makes paths in
GIT_NAMESPACE behave hierarchically, so that cloning with
GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar produces the same result as cloning with
GIT_NAMESPACE=foo and cloning from that repo with GIT_NAMESPACE=bar. It
also avoids ambiguity with strange namespace paths such as
foo/refs/heads/, which could otherwise generate directory/file conflicts
within the refs directory.
Add the infrastructure for ref namespaces: handle the GIT_NAMESPACE
environment variable and --namespace option, and support iterating over
refs in a namespace.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/replacing:
read_sha1_file(): allow selective bypassing of replacement mechanism
inline lookup_replace_object() calls
read_sha1_file(): get rid of read_sha1_file_repl() madness
t6050: make sure we test not just commit replacement
Declare lookup_replace_object() in cache.h, not in commit.h
Conflicts:
environment.c
In a repository without object replacement, lookup_replace_object() should
be a no-op. Check the flag "read_replace_refs" on the side of the caller,
and bypess a function call when we know we are not dealing with replacement.
Also, even when we are set up to replace objects, if we do not find any
replacement defined, flip that flag off to avoid function call overhead
for all the later object accesses.
As this change the semantics of the flag from "do we need read the
replacement definition?" to "do we need to check with the lookup table?"
the flag needs to be renamed later to something saner, e.g. "use_replace",
when the codebase is calmer, but not now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Yes, it is clear that "eol" wants to mean some sort of end-of-line thing,
but as the name of a global variable, it is way too short to describe what
kind of end-of-line thing it wants to represent. Besides, there are many
codepaths that want to use their own local "char *eol" variable to point
at the end of the current line they are processing.
This global variable holds what we read from core.eol configuration
variable. Name it as such.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack-objects command should take notice of the object file and
refrain from attempting to delta large ones, to be consistent with
the fast-import command.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename the make_*_path functions so it's clearer what they do, in
particlar make clear what the differnce between make_absolute_path and
make_nonrelative_path is by renaming them real_path and absolute_path
respectively. make_relative_path has an understandable name and is
renamed to relative_path to maintain the name convention.
The function calls have been replaced 1-to-1 in their usage.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default of 7 comes from fairly early in git development, when
seven hex digits was a lot (it covers about 250+ million hash
values). Back then I thought that 65k revisions was a lot (it was what
we were about to hit in BK), and each revision tends to be about 5-10
new objects or so, so a million objects was a big number.
These days, the kernel isn't even the largest git project, and even
the kernel has about 220k revisions (_much_ bigger than the BK tree
ever was) and we are approaching two million objects. At that point,
seven hex digits is still unique for a lot of them, but when we're
talking about just two orders of magnitude difference between number
of objects and the hash size, there _will_ be collisions in truncated
hash values. It's no longer even close to unrealistic - it happens all
the time.
We should both increase the default abbrev that was unrealistically
small, _and_ add a way for people to set their own default per-project
in the git config file.
This is the first step to first make it configurable; the default of 7
is not raised yet.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 72a5b561fc, as adding
fixed number of hexdigits more than necessary to make one object name
locally unique does not help in futureproofing the uniqueness of names
we generate today.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/setup: (47 commits)
setup_work_tree: adjust relative $GIT_WORK_TREE after moving cwd
git.txt: correct where --work-tree path is relative to
Revert "Documentation: always respect core.worktree if set"
t0001: test git init when run via an alias
Remove all logic from get_git_work_tree()
setup: rework setup_explicit_git_dir()
setup: clean up setup_discovered_git_dir()
t1020-subdirectory: test alias expansion in a subdirectory
setup: clean up setup_bare_git_dir()
setup: limit get_git_work_tree()'s to explicit setup case only
Use git_config_early() instead of git_config() during repo setup
Add git_config_early()
git-rev-parse.txt: clarify --git-dir
t1510: setup case #31
t1510: setup case #30
t1510: setup case #29
t1510: setup case #28
t1510: setup case #27
t1510: setup case #26
t1510: setup case #25
...
This logic is now only used by cmd_init_db(). setup_* functions do not
rely on it any more. Move all the logic to cmd_init_db() and turn
get_git_work_tree() into a simple function.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
get_git_work_tree() takes input as core.worktree, core.bare,
GIT_WORK_TREE and decides correct worktree setting.
Unfortunately it does not do its job well. core.worktree and
GIT_WORK_TREE should only be taken into account, if GIT_DIR is set
(which is handled by setup_explicit_git_dir). For other setup cases,
only core.bare matters.
Add a temporary variable setup_explicit to adjust get_git_work_tree()
behavior as such. This variable will be gone once setup_* rework is
done.
Also remove is_bare_repository_cfg check in set_git_work_tree() to
ease the rework. We are going to check for core.bare and core.worktree
early before setting worktree. For example, if core.bare is true, no
need to set worktree.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jn/thinner-wrapper:
Remove pack file handling dependency from wrapper.o
pack-objects: mark file-local variable static
wrapper: give zlib wrappers their own translation unit
strbuf: move strbuf_branchname to sha1_name.c
path helpers: move git_mkstemp* to wrapper.c
wrapper: move odb_* to environment.c
wrapper: move xmmap() to sha1_file.c
* pn/commit-autosquash:
add tests of commit --squash
commit: --squash option for use with rebase --autosquash
add tests of commit --fixup
commit: --fixup option for use with rebase --autosquash
pretty.c: teach format_commit_message() to reencode the output
commit: helper methods to reduce redundant blocks of code
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-commit.txt
t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh
getenv(3) returns not-permanent buffer which may be changed by e.g.
putenv(3) call (*).
In practice I've noticed this when trying to do `git commit -m abc`
inside msysgit under wine, getting
$ git commit -m abc
fatal: could not open 'DIR=.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG': No such file or directory
^^^^
(notice introduced 'DIR=' artifact.)
The problem was showing itself only with -m option, and actually, as
debugging showed, originally
git_dir = getenv("GIT_DIR")
returned pointer to
"GIT_DIR=.git\0"
^
git_dir
, we stored it in git_dir, than, after processing -m git-commit option,
we did setenv("GIT_EDITOR", ":") which as (*) says changed environment
variables memory layout - something like this
"...\0GIT_DIR=.git\0"
^
git_dir
and oops - we got wrong git_dir.
Avoid that by strdupping getenv("GIT_DIR") result like we did in 06f354
(setup: make sure git dir path is in a permanent buffer). Unfortunately
this also shows that other getenv usage inside git needs auditing...
(*) from man 3 getenv:
The implementation of getenv() is not required to be reentrant. The
string pointed to by the return value of getenv() may be statically
allocated, and can be modified by a subsequent call to getenv(),
putenv(3), setenv(3), or unsetenv(3).
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The odb_mkstemp and odb_pack_keep functions open files under the
$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY directory. This requires access to the git
configuration which very simple programs do not need.
Move these functions to environment.o, closer to their dependencies.
This should make it easier for programs to link to wrapper.o without
linking to environment.o.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* builtin/commit.c: Replace block of code with a one-liner call to
logmsg_reencode().
* commit.c: new function for looking up a comit by name
* pretty.c: helper methods for getting output encodings
Add helpers get_log_output_encoding() and
get_commit_output_encoding() that eliminate some messy and duplicate
if-blocks.
Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though git makes sure that it uses enough hexdigits to show an
abbreviated object name unambiguously, as more objects are added to the
repository over time, a short name that used to be unique will stop being
unique. Git uses this many extra hexdigits that are more than necessary
to make the object name currently unique, in the hope that its output will
stay unique a bit longer.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If setup_git_env() is run before the usual repository discovery
sequence and .git is a file with the text
gitdir: <path>
(with <path> any string) then the in-core git_dir variable is set to
the result of converting <path> to an absolute path using
make_absolute_path().
Unfortunately make_absolute_path() returns its result in a static
buffer that is overwritten by later calls. Such a call could cause
later accesses to git_dir (from git_pathdup(), for example) to read
the wrong path, leaving git very confused.
It is not obvious whether any existing code in git will trigger the
problem, but in any case, it is worth a few dozen bytes to copy the
return value from make_absolute_path() for some added peace of mind.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After v1.6.0-rc0~230^2^ (environment.c: remove unused function,
2008-06-19), git_refs_dir is not used any more.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* kf/askpass-config:
Extend documentation of core.askpass and GIT_ASKPASS.
Allow core.askpass to override SSH_ASKPASS.
Add a new option 'core.askpass'.
Setting this option has the same effect as setting the environment variable
'GIT_ASKPASS'.
Signed-off-by: Knut Franke <k.franke@science-computing.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Like $GIT_CONFIG, $GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS needs to be suppressed by
"git push" and its cousins when running local transport helpers to
imitate remote transport well.
Noticed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The startup_info struct will collect information managed by the git
setup code, such as the prefix for relative paths passed on the
command line (i.e., path to the starting cwd from the toplevel of
the work tree) and whether a git repository has been found.
In other words, startup_info is intended to be a collection of global
variables with results that were previously returned from setup
functions. This state is global anyway (since the cwd is), even
if it is not currently tracked that way. Letting these values persist
means there is more flexibility in deciding when to run setup.
For now, the struct is empty.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new configuration variable, "core.eol", that allows the user
to set which line endings to use for end-of-line-normalized files in the
working directory. It defaults to "native", which means CRLF on Windows
and LF everywhere else.
Note that "core.autocrlf" overrides core.eol. This means that
[core]
autocrlf = true
puts CRLFs in the working directory even if core.eol is set to "lf".
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the semantics of the "crlf" attribute so that it enables
end-of-line normalization when it is set, regardless of "core.autocrlf".
Add a new setting for "crlf": "auto", which enables end-of-line
conversion but does not override the automatic text file detection.
Add a new attribute "eol" with possible values "crlf" and "lf". When
set, this attribute enables normalization and forces git to use CRLF or
LF line endings in the working directory, respectively.
The line ending style to be used for normalized text files in the
working directory is set using "core.autocrlf". When it is set to
"true", CRLFs are used in the working directory; when set to "input" or
"false", LFs are used.
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the list of GIT_* environment variables that are local to a
repository into a static list in environment.c, as it is also
useful elsewhere. Also add the missing GIT_CONFIG variable to the
list.
Make it easy to use the list both by NULL-termination and by size;
the latter (excluding the terminating NULL) is stored in the
local_repo_env_size define.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/sparse: (25 commits)
t7002: test for not using external grep on skip-worktree paths
t7002: set test prerequisite "external-grep" if supported
grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries
commit: correctly respect skip-worktree bit
ie_match_stat(): do not ignore skip-worktree bit with CE_MATCH_IGNORE_VALID
tests: rename duplicate t1009
sparse checkout: inhibit empty worktree
Add tests for sparse checkout
read-tree: add --no-sparse-checkout to disable sparse checkout support
unpack-trees(): ignore worktree check outside checkout area
unpack_trees(): apply $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout to the final index
unpack-trees(): "enable" sparse checkout and load $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout
unpack-trees.c: generalize verify_* functions
unpack-trees(): add CE_WT_REMOVE to remove on worktree alone
Introduce "sparse checkout"
dir.c: export excluded_1() and add_excludes_from_file_1()
excluded_1(): support exclude files in index
unpack-trees(): carry skip-worktree bit over in merged_entry()
Read .gitignore from index if it is skip-worktree
Avoid writing to buffer in add_excludes_from_file_1()
...
Conflicts:
.gitignore
Documentation/config.txt
Documentation/git-update-index.txt
Makefile
entry.c
t/t7002-grep.sh
* cc/replace:
Documentation: talk a little bit about GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS
Documentation: fix typos and spelling in replace documentation
replace: use a GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS env variable
This has the same effect as --no-replace-objects option; git ignores the
replace refs. When --no-replace-objects option is passed to git, this
environment variable is set to "1" and exported to subprocesses in order
to propagate the same setting.
It is useful for example for scripts, as the git commands used in them can
now be aware that they must not read replace refs.
Tested-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit notes are blobs which are shown together with the commit
message. These blobs are taken from the notes ref, which you can
configure by the config variable core.notesRef, which in turn can
be overridden by the environment variable GIT_NOTES_REF.
The notes ref is a branch which contains "files" whose names are
the names of the corresponding commits (i.e. the SHA-1).
The rationale for putting this information into a ref is this: we
want to be able to fetch and possibly union-merge the notes,
maybe even look at the date when a note was introduced, and we
want to store them efficiently together with the other objects.
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Thomas Rast: fix core.notesRef documentation
- Tor Arne Vestbø: fix printing of multi-line notes
- Alex Riesen: Using char array instead of char pointer costs less BSS
- Johan Herland: Plug leak when msg is good, but msglen or type causes return
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tavestbo@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
get_commit_notes(): Plug memory leak when 'if' triggers, but not because of read_sha1_file() failure
