This allows for keeping the common idiom which consists of using
negative values to signal error conditions by ensuring that the enum
will be a signed type.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now, show_date() can print three different kinds of dates: normal,
relative and short (%Y-%m-%s) dates.
To achieve this, the "int relative" was changed to "enum date_mode
mode", which has three states: DATE_NORMAL, DATE_RELATIVE and
DATE_SHORT.
Since existing users of show_date() only call it with relative_date
being either 0 or 1, and DATE_NORMAL and DATE_RELATIVE having these
values, no behaviour is changed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We currently have two parallel notation for dealing with object types
in the code: a string and a numerical value. One of them is obviously
redundent, and the most used one requires more stack space and a bunch
of strcmp() all over the place.
This is an initial step for the removal of the version using a char array
found in object reading code paths. The patch is unfortunately large but
there is no sane way to split it in smaller parts without breaking the
system.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* lt/crlf:
Teach core.autocrlf to 'git apply'
t0020: add test for auto-crlf
Make AutoCRLF ternary variable.
Lazy man's auto-CRLF
* jc/apply-config:
t4119: test autocomputing -p<n> for traditional diff input.
git-apply: guess correct -p<n> value for non-git patches.
git-apply: notice "diff --git" patch again
Fix botched "leak fix"
t4119: add test for traditional patch and different p_value
apply: fix memory leak in prefix_one()
git-apply: require -p<n> when working in a subdirectory.
git-apply: do not lose cwd when run from a subdirectory.
Teach 'git apply' to look at $HOME/.gitconfig even outside of a repository
Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config
When we do not trust executable bit from lstat(2), we copied
existing ce_mode bits without checking if the filesystem object
is a regular file (which is the only thing we apply the "trust
executable bit" business) nor if the blob in the index is a
regular file (otherwise, we should do the same as registering a
new regular file, which is to default non-executable).
Noticed by Johannes Sixt.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It currently does NOT know about file attributes, so it does its
conversion purely based on content. Maybe that is more in the "git
philosophy" anyway, since content is king, but I think we should try to do
the file attributes to turn it off on demand.
Anyway, BY DEFAULT it is off regardless, because it requires a
[core]
AutoCRLF = true
in your config file to be enabled. We could make that the default for
Windows, of course, the same way we do some other things (filemode etc).
But you can actually enable it on UNIX, and it will cause:
- "git update-index" will write blobs without CRLF
- "git diff" will diff working tree files without CRLF
- "git checkout" will write files to the working tree _with_ CRLF
and things work fine.
Funnily, it actually shows an odd file in git itself:
git clone -n git test-crlf
cd test-crlf
git config core.autocrlf true
git checkout
git diff
shows a diff for "Documentation/docbook-xsl.css". Why? Because we have
actually checked in that file *with* CRLF! So when "core.autocrlf" is
true, we'll always generate a *different* hash for it in the index,
because the index hash will be for the content _without_ CRLF.
Is this complete? I dunno. It seems to work for me. It doesn't use the
filename at all right now, and that's probably a deficiency (we could
certainly make the "is_binary()" heuristics also take standard filename
heuristics into account).
I don't pass in the filename at all for the "index_fd()" case
(git-update-index), so that would need to be passed around, but this
actually works fine.
NOTE NOTE NOTE! The "is_binary()" heuristics are totally made-up by yours
truly. I will not guarantee that they work at all reasonable. Caveat
emptor. But it _is_ simple, and it _is_ safe, since it's all off by
default.
The patch is pretty simple - the biggest part is the new "convert.c" file,
but even that is really just basic stuff that anybody can write in
"Teaching C 101" as a final project for their first class in programming.
Not to say that it's bug-free, of course - but at least we're not talking
about rocket surgery here.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since "git log origin/master" uses dwim_log() to match
"refs/remotes/origin/master", it makes sense to do that for
"git log --reflog", too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new interface allows an application to temporarily hash a
small number of objects and pretend that they are available in
the object store without actually writing them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Back when only handful commands that created commit and tag were
the only users of committer identity information, it made sense
to explicitly call setup_ident() to pre-fill the default value
from the gecos information. But it is much simpler for programs
to make the call automatic when get_ident() is called these days,
since many more programs want to use the information when updating
the reflog.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The code that uses committer_info() in reflog can barf and die
whenever it is asked to update a ref. And I do not think
calling ignore_missing_committer_name() upfront like recent
receive-pack did in the aplication is a reasonable workaround.
What the patch does.
- git_committer_info() takes one parameter. It used to be "if
this is true, then die() if the name is not available due to
bad GECOS, otherwise issue a warning once but leave the name
empty". The reason was because we wanted to prevent bad
commits from being made by git-commit-tree (and its
callers). The value 0 is only used by "git var -l".
Now it takes -1, 0 or 1. When set to -1, it does not
complain but uses the pw->pw_name when name is not
available. Existing 0 and 1 values mean the same thing as
they used to mean before. 0 means issue warnings and leave
it empty, 1 means barf and die.
- ignore_missing_committer_name() and its existing caller
(receive-pack, to set the reflog) have been removed.
- git-format-patch, to come up with the phoney message ID when
asked to thread, now passes -1 to git_committer_info(). This
codepath uses only the e-mail part, ignoring the name. It
used to barf and die. The other call in the same program
when asked to add signed-off-by line based on committer
identity still passes 1 to make sure it barfs instead of
adding a bogus s-o-b line.
- log_ref_write in refs.c, to come up with the name to record
who initiated the ref update in the reflog, passes -1. It
used to barf and die.
The last change means that git-update-ref, git-branch, and
commit walker backends can now be used in a repository with
reflog by somebody who does not have the user identity required
to make a commit. They all used to barf and die.
I've run tests and all of them seem to pass, and also tried "git
clone" as a user whose GECOS is empty -- git clone works again
now (it was broken when reflog was enabled by default).
But this definitely needs extra sets of eyeballs.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
For example, it makes no sense to check the presence of a file
named "HEAD" when calling "git log HEAD" in a bare repository.
Noticed by Han-Wen Nienhuys.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Originally I introduced read_or_die for the purpose of reading
the pack header and trailer, and I was too lazy to print proper
error messages.
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:
> For a read error, at the very least you have to say WHICH FILE
> couldn't be read, because it's usually a matter of some file just
> being too short, not some system-wide problem.
and of course Linus is right. Make it so.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/bare:
Disallow working directory commands in a bare repository.
git-fetch: allow updating the current branch in a bare repository.
Introduce is_bare_repository() and core.bare configuration variable
Move initialization of log_all_ref_updates
* jc/detached-head:
git-checkout: handle local changes sanely when detaching HEAD
git-checkout: safety check for detached HEAD checks existing refs
git-checkout: fix branch name output from the command
git-checkout: safety when coming back from the detached HEAD state.
git-checkout: rewording comments regarding detached HEAD.
git-checkout: do not warn detaching HEAD when it is already detached.
Detached HEAD (experimental)
git-branch: show detached HEAD
git-status: show detached HEAD
We have a number of badly checked read() calls. Often we are
expecting read() to read exactly the size we requested or fail, this
fails to handle interrupts or short reads. Add a read_in_full()
providing those semantics. Otherwise we at a minimum need to check
for EINTR and EAGAIN, where this is appropriate use xread().
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We recently introduced a write_in_full() which would either write
the specified object or emit an error message and fail. In order
to fix the read side we now want to introduce a read_in_full()
but without an error emit. This patch cleans up the naming
of this family of calls:
1) convert the existing write_or_whine() to write_or_whine_pipe()
to better indicate its pipe specific nature,
2) convert the existing write_in_full() calls to write_or_whine()
to better indicate its nature,
3) introduce a write_in_full() providing a write or fail semantic,
and
4) convert write_or_whine() and write_or_whine_pipe() to use
write_in_full().
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows "git checkout v1.4.3" to dissociate the HEAD of
repository from any branch. After this point, "git branch"
starts reporting that you are not on any branch. You can go
back to an existing branch by saying "git checkout master", for
example.
This is still experimental. While I think it makes sense to
allow commits on top of detached HEAD, it is rather dangerous
unless you are careful in the current form. Next "git checkout
master" will obviously lose what you have done, so we might want
to require "git checkout -f" out of a detached HEAD if we find
that the HEAD commit is not an ancestor of any other branches.
There is no such safety valve implemented right now.
On the other hand, the reason the user did not start the ad-hoc
work on a new branch with "git checkout -b" was probably because
the work was of a throw-away nature, so the convenience of not
having that safety valve might be even better. The user, after
accumulating some commits on top of a detached HEAD, can always
create a new branch with "git checkout -b" not to lose useful
work done while the HEAD was detached.
We'll see.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This removes the old is_bare_git_dir(const char *) to ask if a
directory, if it is a GIT_DIR, is a bare repository, and
replaces it with is_bare_repository(void *). The function looks
at core.bare configuration variable if exists but uses the old
heuristics: if it is ".git" or ends with "/.git", then it does
not look like a bare repository, otherwise it does.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* sp/mmap: (27 commits)
Spell default packedgitlimit slightly differently
Increase packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} on 64 bit systems.
Update packedGit config option documentation.
mmap: set FD_CLOEXEC for file descriptors we keep open for mmap()
pack-objects: fix use of use_pack().
Fix random segfaults in pack-objects.
Cleanup read_cache_from error handling.
Replace mmap with xmmap, better handling MAP_FAILED.
Release pack windows before reporting out of memory.
Default core.packdGitWindowSize to 1 MiB if NO_MMAP.
Test suite for sliding window mmap implementation.
Create pack_report() as a debugging aid.
Support unmapping windows on 'temporary' packfiles.
Improve error message when packfile mmap fails.
Ensure core.packedGitWindowSize cannot be less than 2 pages.
Load core configuration in git-verify-pack.
Fully activate the sliding window pack access.
Unmap individual windows rather than entire files.
Document why header parsing won't exceed a window.
Loop over pack_windows when inflating/accessing data.
...
Conflicts:
cache.h
pack-check.c
It was stupid to link the same element twice to lock_file_list
and end up in a loop, so we certainly need a fix.
But it is not like we are taking a lock on multiple files in
this case. It is just that we leave the linked element on the
list even after commit_lock_file() successfully removes the
cruft.
We cannot remove the list element in commit_lock_file(); if we
are interrupted in the middle of list manipulation, the call to
remove_lock_file_on_signal() will happen with a broken list
structure pointed by lock_file_list, which would cause the cruft
to remain, so not removing the list element is the right thing
to do. Instead we should be reusing the element already on the
list.
There is already a code for that in lock_file() function in
lockfile.c. The code checks lk->next and the element is linked
only when it is not already on the list -- which is incorrect
for the last element on the list (which has NULL in its next
field), but if you read the check as "is this element already on
the list?" it actually makes sense. We do not want to link it
on the list again, nor we would want to set up signal/atexit
over and over.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When passing the revisions list to pack-objects we do not check for
errors nor short writes. Introduce a new write_in_full which will
handle short writes and report errors to the caller. Use this to
short cut the send on failure, allowing us to wait for and report
the child in case the failure is its fault.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Much like the alloc_report() function can be useful to report on
object allocation statistics while debugging the new pack_report()
function can be useful to report on the behavior of the mmap window
code used for packfile access.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This finally turns on the sliding window behavior for packfile data
access by mapping limited size windows and chaining them under the
packed_git->windows list.
We consider a given byte offset to be within the window only if there
would be at least 20 bytes (one hash worth of data) accessible after
the requested offset. This range selection relates to the contract
that use_pack() makes with its callers, allowing them to access
one hash or one object header without needing to call use_pack()
for every byte of data obtained.
In the worst case scenario we will map the same page of data twice
into memory: once at the end of one window and once again at the
start of the next window. This duplicate page mapping will happen
only when an object header or a delta base reference is spanned
over the end of a window and is always limited to just one page of
duplication, as no sane operating system will ever have a page size
smaller than a hash.
I am assuming that the possible wasted page of virtual address
space is going to perform faster than the alternatives, which
would be to copy the object header or ref delta into a temporary
buffer prior to parsing, or to check the window range on every byte
during header parsing. We may decide to revisit this decision in
the future since this is just a gut instinct decision and has not
actually been proven out by experimental testing.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Part of the implementation concept of the sliding mmap window for
pack access is to permit multiple windows per pack to be mapped
independently. Since the inuse_cnt is associated with the mmap and
not with the file, this value is in struct pack_window and needs to
be incremented/decremented for each pack_window accessed by any code.
To faciliate that implementation we need to replace all uses of
use_packed_git() and unuse_packed_git() with a different API that
follows struct pack_window objects rather than struct packed_git.
The way this works is when we need to start accessing a pack for
the first time we should setup a new window 'cursor' by declaring
a local and setting it to NULL:
struct pack_windows *w_curs = NULL;
To obtain the memory region which contains a specific section of
the pack file we invoke use_pack(), supplying the address of our
current window cursor:
unsigned int len;
unsigned char *addr = use_pack(p, &w_curs, offset, &len);
the returned address `addr` will be the first byte at `offset`
within the pack file. The optional variable len will also be
updated with the number of bytes remaining following the address.
Multiple calls to use_pack() with the same window cursor will
update the window cursor, moving it from one window to another
when necessary. In this way each window cursor variable maintains
only one struct pack_window inuse at a time.
Finally before exiting the scope which originally declared the window
cursor we must invoke unuse_pack() to unuse the current window (which
may be different from the one that was first obtained from use_pack):
unuse_pack(&w_curs);
This implementation is still not complete with regards to multiple
windows, as only one window per pack file is supported right now.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To efficiently support mmaping of multiple regions of the same pack
file we want to keep the pack's file descriptor open while we are
actively working with that pack. So we are now keeping that file
descriptor in packed_git.pack_fd and closing it only after we unmap
the last window.
This is going to increase the number of file descriptors that are
in use at once, however that will be bounded by the total number of
pack files present and therefore should not be very high. It is
a small tradeoff which we may need to revisit after some testing
can be done on various repositories and systems.
For code clarity we also want to seperate out the implementation
of how we open a pack file from the implementation which locates
a suitable window (or makes a new one) from the given pack file.
Since this is a rather large delta I'm taking advantage of doing
it now, in a fairly isolated change.
When we open a pack file we need to examine the header and trailer
without having a mmap in place, as we may only need to mmap
the middle section of this particular pack. Consequently the
verification code has been refactored to make use of the new
read_or_die function.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Like write_or_die read_or_die reads the entire length requested
or it kills the current process with a die call.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since the index_size and pack_size members of struct packed_git
are the lengths of those corresponding files we should use the
off_t size of the operating system to store these file lengths,
rather than an unsigned long. This would help in the future should
we ever resurrect Junio's 64 bit index implementation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The idea behind the sliding mmap window pack reader implementation
is to have multiple mmap regions active against the same pack file,
thereby allowing the process to mmap in only the active/hot sections
of the pack and reduce overall virtual address space usage.
To implement this we need to refactor the mmap related data
(pack_base, pack_use_cnt) out of struct packed_git and move them
into a new struct pack_window.
We are refactoring the code to support a single struct pack_window
per packfile, thereby emulating the prior behavior of mmap'ing the
entire pack file.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Rather than hardcoding the maximum number of bytes which can be
mmapped from pack files we should make this value configurable,
allowing the end user to increase or decrease this limit on a
per-repository basis depending on the size of the repository
and the capabilities of their operating system.
In general users should not need to manually tune such a low-level
setting within the core code, but being able to artifically limit
the number of bytes which we can mmap at once from pack files will
make it easier to craft test cases for the new mmap sliding window
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The unpack_entry_gently function currently has only two callers:
the delta base resolution in sha1_file.c and the main loop of
pack-check.c. Both of these must change to using unpack_entry
directly when we implement sliding window mmap logic, so I'm doing
it earlier to help break down the change set.
This may cause a slight performance decrease for delta base
resolution as well as for pack-check.c's verify_packfile(), as
the pack use counter will be incremented and decremented for every
object that is unpacked.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It is plausible for somebody to want to view the commit log in a
different encoding from i18n.commitencoding -- the project's
policy may be UTF-8 and the user may be using a commit message
hook to run iconv to conform to that policy (and either not have
i18n.commitencoding to default to UTF-8 or have it explicitly
set to UTF-8). Even then, Latin-1 may be more convenient for
the usual pager and the terminal the user uses.
The new variable i18n.logoutputencoding is used in preference to
i18n.commitencoding to decide what encoding to recode the log
output in when git-log and friends formats the commit log message.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We broke the discipline Linus set up to allow compiler help us
avoid typos in environment names in the early days of git over
time. This defines a handful preprocessor constants for
environment variable names used in relatively core parts of the
system.
I've left out variable names specific to subsystems such as HTTP
and SSL as I do not think they are big problems.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If GIT_COMMITTER_NAME is not available in receive-pack but reflogs
are enabled we would normally die out with an error message asking
the user to correct their environment settings.
Now that reflogs are enabled by default in (what we guessed to be)
non-bare Git repositories this may cause problems for some users
who don't have their full name in the gecos field and who don't
have access to the remote system to correct the problem.
So rather than die()'ing out in receive-pack when we try to log a
ref change and have no committer name we default to the username,
as obtained from the host's password database.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Given a config like this:
# A config
[very.interesting.section]
not
The command
$ git repo-config --rename-section very.interesting.section bla.1
will lead to this config:
# A config
[bla "1"]
not
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
New and experienced Git users alike are finding out too late that
they forgot to enable reflogs in the current repository, and cannot
use the information stored within it to recover from an incorrectly
entered command such as `git reset --hard HEAD^^^` when they really
meant HEAD^^ (aka HEAD~2).
So enable reflogs by default in all future versions of Git, unless
the user specifically disables it with:
[core]
logAllRefUpdates = false
in their .git/config or ~/.gitconfig.
We only enable reflogs in repositories that have a working directory
associated with them, as shared/bare repositories do not have
an easy means to prune away old log entries, or may fail logging
entirely if the user's gecos information is not valid during a push.
This heuristic was suggested on the mailing list by Junio.
Documentation was also updated to indicate the new default behavior.
We probably should start to teach usuing the reflog to recover
from mistakes in some of the tutorial material, as new users are
likely to make a few along the way and will feel better knowing
they can recover from them quickly and easily, without fsck-objects'
lost+found features.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since functions in fetch-clone.c were only used from fetch-pack.c,
its content has been merged with fetch-pack.c. This allows for better
coupling of features with much simpler implementations.
One new thing is that the (abscence of) --thin also enforce it on
index-pack now, such that index-pack will abort if a thin pack was
_not_ asked for.
The -k or --keep, when provided twice, now causes the fetched pack
to be left as a kept pack just like receive-pack currently does.
Eventually this will be used to close a race against concurrent
repacking.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since keeping a pushed pack or exploding it into loose objects
should be a local repository decision this teaches receive-pack
to decide if it should call unpack-objects or index-pack --stdin
--fix-thin based on the setting of receive.unpackLimit and the
number of objects contained in the received pack.
If the number of objects (hdr_entries) in the received pack is
below the value of receive.unpackLimit (which is 5000 by default)
then we unpack-objects as we have in the past.
If the hdr_entries >= receive.unpackLimit then we call index-pack and
ask it to include our pid and hostname in the .keep file to make it
easier to identify why a given pack has been kept in the repository.
Currently this leaves every received pack as a kept pack. We really
don't want that as received packs will tend to be small. Instead we
want to delete the .keep file automatically after all refs have
been updated. That is being left as room for future improvement.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* lj/refs: (63 commits)
Fix show-ref usagestring
t3200: git-branch testsuite update
sha1_name.c: avoid compilation warnings.
Make git-branch a builtin
ref-log: fix D/F conflict coming from deleted refs.
git-revert with conflicts to behave as git-merge with conflicts
core.logallrefupdates thinko-fix
git-pack-refs --all
core.logallrefupdates create new log file only for branch heads.
Remove bashism from t3210-pack-refs.sh
ref-log: allow ref@{count} syntax.
pack-refs: call fflush before fsync.
pack-refs: use lockfile as everybody else does.
git-fetch: do not look into $GIT_DIR/refs to see if a tag exists.
lock_ref_sha1_basic does not remove empty directories on BSD
Do not create tag leading directories since git update-ref does it.
Check that a tag exists using show-ref instead of looking for the ref file.
Use git-update-ref to delete a tag instead of rm()ing the ref file.
Fix refs.c;:repack_without_ref() clean-up path
Clean up "git-branch.sh" and add remove recursive dir test cases.
...
The 'receive.denynonfastforwards' option has nothing to do with
the repository format version. Since receive-pack already uses
git_config to initialize itself before executing any updates we
can use the normal configuration strategy and isolate the receive
specific variables away from the core variables.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* np/pack:
add the capability for index-pack to read from a stream
index-pack: compare only the first 20-bytes of the key.
git-repack: repo.usedeltabaseoffset
pack-objects: document --delta-base-offset option
allow delta data reuse even if base object is a preferred base
zap a debug remnant
let the GIT native protocol use offsets to delta base when possible
make pack data reuse compatible with both delta types
make git-pack-objects able to create deltas with offset to base
teach git-index-pack about deltas with offset to base
teach git-unpack-objects about deltas with offset to base
introduce delta objects with offset to base
Most callers of write_sha1_file_prepare() are only interested in the
resulting hash but don't care about the returned file name or the header.
This patch adds a simple wrapper named hash_sha1_file() which does just
that, and converts potential callers.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master: (72 commits)
runstatus: do not recurse into subdirectories if not needed
grep: fix --fixed-strings combined with expression.
grep: free expressions and patterns when done.
Corrected copy-and-paste thinko in ignore executable bit test case.
An illustration of rev-list --parents --pretty=raw
Allow git-checkout when on a non-existant branch.
gitweb: Decode long title for link tooltips
git-svn: Fix fetch --no-ignore-externals with GIT_SVN_NO_LIB=1
Ignore executable bit when adding files if filemode=0.
Remove empty ref directories that prevent creating a ref.
Use const for interpolate arguments
git-archive: update documentation
Deprecate merge-recursive.py
gitweb: fix over-eager application of esc_html().
Allow '(no author)' in git-svn's authors file.
Allow 'svn fetch' on '(no date)' revisions in Subversion.
git-repack: allow git-repack to run in subdirectory
Remove upload-tar and make git-tar-tree a thin wrapper to git-archive
git-tar-tree: Move code for git-archive --format=tar to archive-tar.c
git-tar-tree: Remove duplicate git_config() call
...
This adds -d flag to update-ref to allow safe deletion of ref.
Before deleting it, the command checks if the given <oldvalue>
still matches the value the caller thought the ref contained.
Similarly, it also accepts 0{40} or an empty string as <oldvalue>
to allow safe creation of a new ref.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds a new object, namely OBJ_OFS_DELTA, renames OBJ_DELTA to
OBJ_REF_DELTA to better make the distinction between those two delta
objects, and adds support for the handling of those new delta objects
in sha1_file.c only.
The OBJ_OFS_DELTA contains a relative offset from the delta object's
position in a pack instead of the 20-byte SHA1 reference to identify
the base object. Since the base is likely to be not so far away, the
relative offset is more likely to have a smaller encoding on average
than an absolute offset. And for those delta objects the base must
always be stored first because there is no way to know the distance of
later objects when streaming a pack. Hence this relative offset is
always meant to be negative.
The offset encoding is slightly denser than the one used for object
size -- credits to <linux@horizon.com> (whoever this is) for bringing
it to my attention.
This allows for pack size reduction between 3.2% (Linux-2.6) to over 5%
(linux-historic). Runtime pack access should be faster too since delta
replay does skip a search in the pack index for each delta in a chain.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Those cleanups are mainly to set the table for the support of deltas
with base objects referenced by offsets instead of sha1. This means
that many pack lookup functions are converted to take a pack/offset
tuple instead of a sha1.
This eliminates many struct pack_entry usages since this structure
carried redundent information in many cases, and it increased stack
footprint needlessly for a couple recursively called functions that used
to declare a local copy of it for every recursion loop.
In the process, packed_object_info_detail() has been reorganized as well
so to look much saner and more amenable to deltas with offset support.
Finally the appropriate adjustments have been made to functions that
depend on the above changes. But there is no functionality changes yet
simply some code refactoring at this point.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds a "int *flag" parameter to resolve_ref() and makes
for_each_ref() family to call callback function with an extra
"int flag" parameter. They are used to give two bits of
information (REF_ISSYMREF and REF_ISPACKED) about the ref.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If receive.denyNonFastforwards is set to true, git-receive-pack will deny
non fast-forwards, i.e. forced updates. Most notably, a push to a repository
which has that flag set will fail.
As a first user, 'git-init-db --shared' sets this flag, since in a shared
setup, you are most unlikely to want forced pushes to succeed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
builtin-mailinfo.c has its own hexval implementaiton but it can
share the table-lookup one recently implemented in sha1_file.c
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The old code used to totally mix up the notion of a ref-name and the path
that that ref was associated with. That was not only horribly ugly (a
number of users got the path, and then wanted to try to turn it back into
a ref-name again), but it fundamnetally doesn't work at all once we do any
setup where a ref doesn't have a 1:1 relationship with a particular
pathname.
This fixes things up so that we use the ref-name throughout, and only
turn it into a pathname once we actually look it up in the filesystem.
That makes a lot of things much clearer and more straightforward.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/pack:
pack-objects: document --revs, --unpacked and --all.
pack-objects --unpacked=<existing pack> option.
pack-objects: further work on internal rev-list logic.
pack-objects: run rev-list equivalent internally.
Separate object listing routines out of rev-list
git_connect() can return 0 if we use git protocol for example.
Users of this function don't know and don't care if a process
had been created or not, and to avoid them to check it before
calling finish_connect() this patch allows finish_connect() to
take a null pid. And in that case return 0.
[jc: updated function signature of git_connect() with a comment on
its return value. ]
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Incremental repack without -a essentially boils down to:
rev-list --objects --unpacked --all |
pack-objects $new_pack
which picks up all loose objects that are still live and creates
a new pack.
This implements --unpacked=<existing pack> option to tell the
revision walking machinery to pretend as if objects in such a
pack are unpacked for the purpose of object listing. With this,
we could say:
rev-list --objects --unpacked=$active_pack --all |
pack-objects $new_pack
instead, to mean "all live loose objects but pretend as if
objects that are in this pack are also unpacked". The newly
created pack would be perfect for updating $active_pack by
replacing it.
Since pack-objects now knows how to do the rev-list's work
itself internally, you can also write the above example by:
pack-objects --unpacked=$active_pack --all $new_pack </dev/null
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When copying from an existing pack and when copying from a loose
object with new style header, the code makes sure that the piece
we are going to copy out inflates well and inflate() consumes
the data in full while doing so.
The check to see if the xdelta really apply is quite expensive
as you described, because you would need to have the image of
the base object which can be represented as a delta against
something else.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If GIT_TRACE is set to an absolute path (starting with a
'/' character), we interpret this as a file path and we
trace into it.
Also if GIT_TRACE is set to an integer value greater than
1 and lower than 10, we interpret this as an open fd value
and we trace into it.
Note that this behavior is not compatible with the
previous one.
We also trace whole messages using one write(2) call to
make sure messages from processes do net get mixed up in
the middle.
This patch makes it possible to get trace information when
running "make test".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* js/c-merge-recursive: (21 commits)
discard_cache(): discard index, even if no file was mmap()ed
merge-recur: do not die unnecessarily
merge-recur: try to merge older merge bases first
merge-recur: if there is no common ancestor, fake empty one
merge-recur: do not setenv("GIT_INDEX_FILE")
merge-recur: do not call git-write-tree
merge-recursive: fix rename handling
.gitignore: git-merge-recur is a built file.
merge-recur: virtual commits shall never be parsed
merge-recur: use the unpack_trees() interface instead of exec()ing read-tree
merge-recur: fix thinko in unique_path()
Makefile: git-merge-recur depends on xdiff libraries.
merge-recur: Explain why sha_eq() and struct stage_data cannot go
merge-recur: Cleanup last mixedCase variables...
merge-recur: Fix compiler warning with -pedantic
merge-recur: Remove dead code
merge-recur: Get rid of debug code
merge-recur: Convert variable names to lower_case
Cumulative update of merge-recursive in C
recur vs recursive: help testing without touching too many stuff.
...
This is an evil merge that removes TEST script from the toplevel.
I noticed that I was looking at the kernel gitweb output at some point
rather than just do "git log", simply because I liked seeing the
simplified date-format, ie the "5 days ago" rather than a full date.
This adds infrastructure to do that for "git log" too. It does NOT add the
actual flag to enable it, though, so right now this patch is a no-op, but
it should now be easy to add a command line flag (and possibly a config
file option) to just turn on the "relative" date format.
The exact cut-off points when it switches from days to weeks etc are
totally arbitrary, but are picked somewhat to avoid the "1 weeks ago"
thing (by making it show "10 days ago" rather than "1 week", or "70
minutes ago" rather than "1 hour ago").
[jc: with minor fix and tweak around "month" and "week" area.]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This abstracts away the size of the hash values when copying them
from memory location to memory location, much as the introduction
of hashcmp abstracted away hash value comparsion.
A few call sites were using char* rather than unsigned char* so
I added the cast rather than open hashcpy to be void*. This is a
reasonable tradeoff as most call sites already use unsigned char*
and the existing hashcmp is also declared to be unsigned char*.
[jc: Splitted the patch to "master" part, to be followed by a
patch for merge-recursive.c which is not in "master" yet.
Fixed the cast in the latter hunk to combine-diff.c which was
wrong in the original.
Also converted ones left-over in combine-diff.c, diff-lib.c and
upload-pack.c ]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The little helper write_or_die() won't come back with bad news about
full disks or broken pipes. It either succeeds or terminates the
program, making additional error handling unnecessary.
This patch adds the new function and uses it to replace two similar
ones (the one in tar-tree originally has been copied from cat-file
btw.). I chose to add the fd parameter which both lacked to make
write_or_die() just as flexible as write() and thus suitable for
lib-ification.
There is a regression: error messages emitted by this function don't
show the program name, while the replaced two functions did. That's
acceptable, I think; a lot of other functions do the same.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Introduces global inline:
hashcmp(const unsigned char *sha1, const unsigned char *sha2)
Uses memcmp for comparison and returns the result based on the length of
the hash name (a future runtime decision).
Acked-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Replace sha1 comparisons to null_sha1 with a global inline (which previously an
unused static inline in builtin-apply.c)
[jc: with a fix from Jonas Fonseca.]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Most of the callers except the one in refs.c use the function to
update the index file. Among the index writers, everybody
except write-tree dies if they cannot open it for writing.
This gives the function an extra argument, to tell it to die
when it cannot create a new file as the lockfile.
The only caller that does not have to die is write-tree, because
updating the index for the cache-tree part is optional and not
being able to do so does not affect the correctness. I think we
do not have to be so careful and make the failure into die() the
same way as other callers, but that would be a different patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
enable/disable colored output when the pager is in use
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* js/read-tree: (107 commits)
read-tree: move merge functions to the library
read-trees: refactor the unpack_trees() part
tar-tree: illustrate an obscure feature better
git.c: allow alias expansion without a git directory
setup_git_directory_gently: do not barf when GIT_DIR is given.
Build on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
Call setup_git_directory() much earlier
Call setup_git_directory() early
Display an error from update-ref if target ref name is invalid.
Fix http-fetch
t4103: fix binary patch application test.
git-apply -R: binary patches are irreversible for now.
Teach git-apply about '-R'
Makefile: ssh-pull.o depends on ssh-fetch.c
log and diff family: honor config even from subdirectories
git-reset: detect update-ref error and report it.
lost-found: use fsck-objects --full
Teach git-http-fetch the --stdin switch
Teach git-local-fetch the --stdin switch
Make pull() support fetching multiple targets at once
...
This also moves add_file_to_index() to read-cache.c. Oh, and while
touching builtin-add.c, it also removes a duplicate git_config() call.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This backports the pieces that are not uncooked from the merge-recursive
WIP we have seen earlier, to be used in git-mv rewritten in C.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This exposes map_sha1_file() interface to mmap a loose object file,
and legacy_loose_object() function, split from unpack_sha1_header().
They will be used in the next patch to reuse the deflated data from
new-style loose object files when generating packs.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The pack-file format is slightly different from the traditional git
object format, in that it has a much denser binary header encoding.
The traditional format uses an ASCII string with type and length
information, which is somewhat wasteful.
A new object format starts with uncompressed binary header
followed by compressed payload -- this will allow us later to
copy the payload straight to packfiles.
Obviously they cannot be read by older versions of git, so for
now new object files are created with the traditional format.
core.legacyheaders configuration item, when set to false makes
the code write in new format for people to experiment with.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is just an update for people being interested. Alex and me were
busy with that project for a few days now. While it has progressed nicely,
there are quite a couple TODOs in merge-recursive.c, just search for "TODO".
For impatient people: yes, it passes all the tests, and yes, according
to the evil test Alex did, it is faster than the Python script.
But no, it is not yet finished. Biggest points are:
- there are still three external calls
- in the end, it should not be necessary to write the index more than once
(just before exiting)
- a lot of things can be refactored to make the code easier and shorter
BTW we cannot just plug in git-merge-tree yet, because git-merge-tree
does not handle renames at all.
This patch is meant for testing, and as such,
- it compile the program to git-merge-recur
- it adjusts the scripts and tests to use git-merge-recur instead of
git-merge-recursive
- it provides "TEST", a script to execute the tests regarding -recursive
- it inlines the changes to read-cache.c (read_cache_from(), discard_cache()
and refresh_cache_entry())
Brought to you by Alex Riesen and Dscho
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Nobody else uses them, and I'm going to start changing them.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows you to say:
git -p diff v2.6.16-rc5..
and the command pipes the output of any git command to your pager.
[jc: this resurrects a month old RFC patch with improvement
suggested by Linus to call it --paginate instead of --less.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes git-peek-remote able to basically do everything that
git-ls-remote does (but obviously just for the native protocol, so no
http[s]: or rsync: support).
The default behaviour is the same, but you can now give a mixture of
"--refs", "--tags" and "--heads" flags, where "--refs" forces
git-peek-remote to only show real refs (ie none of the fakey tag lookups,
but also not the special pseudo-refs like HEAD and MERGE_HEAD).
The "--tags" and "--heads" flags respectively limit the output to just
regular tags and heads, of course.
You can still also ask to limit them by name too.
You can combine the flags, so
git peek-remote --refs --tags .
will show all local _true_ tags, without the generated tag lookups
(compare the output without the "--refs" flag).
And "--tags --heads" will show both tags and heads, but will avoid (for
example) any special refs outside of the standard locations.
I'm also planning on adding a "--ignore-local" flag that allows us to ask
it to ignore any refs that we already have in the local tree, but that's
an independent thing.
All this is obviously gearing up to making "git fetch" cheaper.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With the change in default, "git add ." on kernel dir is about
twice as fast as before, with only minimal (0.5%) change in
object size. The speed difference is even more noticeable
when committing large files, which is now up to 8 times faster.
The configurability is through setting core.compression = [-1..9]
which maps to the zlib constants; -1 is the default, 0 is no
compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9
being slowest.
Signed-off-by: Joachim B Haga (cjhaga@fys.uio.no)
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This lets you use something like this in your $GIT_DIR/config
file.
[diff]
color = auto
[diff.color]
new = blue
old = yellow
frag = reverse
When diff.color is set to "auto", colored diff is enabled when
the standard output is the terminal. Other choices are "always",
and "never". Usual boolean true/false can also be used.
The colormap entries can specify colors for the following slots:
plain - lines that appear in both old and new file (context)
meta - diff --git header and extended git diff headers
frag - @@ -n,m +l,k @@ lines (hunk header)
old - lines deleted from old file
new - lines added to new file
The following color names can be used:
normal, bold, dim, l, blink, reverse, reset,
black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan,
white
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This cleans up the use of safe_strncpy() even more. Since it has the
same semantics as strlcpy() use this name instead. Also move the
definition from inside path.c to its own file compat/strlcpy.c, and use
it conditionally at compile time, since some platforms already has
strlcpy(). It's included in the same way as compat/setenv.c.
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This implements a protocol extension between fetch-pack and
upload-pack to allow stderr stream from upload-pack (primarily
used for the progress bar display) to be passed back.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This creates a simple specialized object allocator for basic
objects.
This avoids wasting space with malloc overhead (metadata and
extra alignment), since the specialized allocator knows the
alignment, and that objects, once allocated, are never freed.
It also allows us to track some basic statistics about object
allocations. For example, for the mozilla import, it shows
object usage as follows:
blobs: 627629 (14710 kB)
trees: 1119035 (34969 kB)
commits: 196423 (8440 kB)
tags: 1336 (46 kB)
and the simpler allocator shaves off about 2.5% off the memory
footprint off a "git-rev-list --all --objects", and is a bit
faster too.
[ Side note: this concludes the series of "save memory in object storage".
The thing is, there simply isn't much more to be saved on the objects.
Doing "git-rev-list --all --objects" on the mozilla archive has a final
total RSS of 131498 pages for me: that's about 513MB. Of that, the
object overhead is now just 56MB, the rest is going somewhere else (put
another way: the fact that this patch shaves off 2.5% of the total
memory overhead, considering that objects are now not much more than 10%
of the total shows how big the wasted space really was: this makes
object allocations much more memory- and time-efficient).
I haven't looked at where the rest is, but I suspect the bulk of it is
just the pack-file loading. It may be that we should pack the tree
objects separately from the blob objects: for git-rev-list --objects, we
don't actually ever need to even look at the blobs, but since trees and
blobs are interspersed in the pack-file, we end up not being dense in
the tree accesses, so we end up looking at more pages than we strictly
need to.
So with a 535MB pack-file, it's entirely possible - even likely - that
most of the remaining RSS is just the mmap of the pack-file itself. We
don't need to map in _all_ of it, but we do end up mapping a fair
amount. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This enhances core.sharedrepository to have additionally
specify that read and exec permissions to be given to others as
well. It is useful when serving a repository via gitweb and
git-daemon that runs as a user outside the project group.
The configuration item can take the following values:
[core]
sharedrepository ; the same as "group"
sharedrepository = true ; ditto
sharedrepository = 1 ; ditto
sharedrepository = group ; allow rwx to group
sharedrepository = all ; allow rwx to group, allow rx to other
sharedrepository = umask ; not shared - use umask
It also extends "git init-db" to take "--shared=all" and friends
from the command line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The framework to create lockfiles that are removed at exit is
first used to reliably write the index file, but it is
applicable to other things, so stop calling it "cache_file".
This also rewords a few remaining error message that called the
index file "cache file".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* sp/reflog:
fetch.c: do not pass uninitialized lock to unlock_ref().
Test that git-branch -l works.
Verify git-commit provides a reflog message.
Enable ref log creation in git checkout -b.
Create/delete branch ref logs.
Include ref log detail in commit, reset, etc.
Change order of -m option to update-ref.
Correct force_write bug in refs.c
Change 'master@noon' syntax to 'master@{noon}'.
Log ref updates made by fetch.
Force writing ref if it doesn't exist.
Added logs/ directory to repository layout.
General ref log reading improvements.
Fix ref log parsing so it works properly.
Support 'master@2 hours ago' syntax
Log ref updates to logs/refs/<ref>
Convert update-ref to use ref_lock API.
Improve abstraction of ref lock/write.
* jc/cache-tree: (26 commits)
builtin-rm: squelch compiler warnings.
git-write-tree writes garbage on sparc64
Fix crash when reading the empty tree
fsck-objects: do not segfault on missing tree in cache-tree
cache-tree: a bit more debugging support.
read-tree: invalidate cache-tree entry when a new index entry is added.
Fix test-dump-cache-tree in one-tree disappeared case.
fsck-objects: mark objects reachable from cache-tree
cache-tree: replace a sscanf() by two strtol() calls
cache-tree.c: typefix
test-dump-cache-tree: validate the cached data as well.
cache_tree_update: give an option to update cache-tree only.
read-tree: teach 1-way merege and plain read to prime cache-tree.
read-tree: teach 1 and 2 way merges about cache-tree.
update-index: when --unresolve, smudge the relevant cache-tree entries.
test-dump-cache-tree: report number of subtrees.
cache-tree: sort the subtree entries.
Teach fsck-objects about cache-tree.
index: make the index file format extensible.
cache-tree: protect against "git prune".
...
Conflicts:
Makefile, builtin.h, git.c: resolved the same way as in next.
* master: (90 commits)
fetch.c: remove an unused variable and dead code.
Clean up sha1 file writing
Builtin git-cat-file
builtin format-patch: squelch content-type for 7-bit ASCII
CMIT_FMT_EMAIL: Q-encode Subject: and display-name part of From: fields.
add more informative error messages to git-mktag
remove the artificial restriction tagsize < 8kb
git-rebase: use canonical A..B syntax to format-patch
git-format-patch: now built-in.
fmt-patch: Support --attach
fmt-patch: understand old <his> notation
Teach fmt-patch about --keep-subject
Teach fmt-patch about --numbered
fmt-patch: implement -o <dir>
fmt-patch: output file names to stdout
Teach fmt-patch to write individual files.
built-in tar-tree and remote tar-tree
Builtin git-diff-files, git-diff-index, git-diff-stages, and git-diff-tree.
Builtin git-show-branch.
Builtin git-apply.
...
This makes "git format-patch" a built-in.
* js/fmt-patch:
git-rebase: use canonical A..B syntax to format-patch
git-format-patch: now built-in.
fmt-patch: Support --attach
fmt-patch: understand old <his> notation
Teach fmt-patch about --keep-subject
Teach fmt-patch about --numbered
fmt-patch: implement -o <dir>
fmt-patch: output file names to stdout
Teach fmt-patch to write individual files.
Use RFC2822 dates from "git fmt-patch".
git-fmt-patch: thinkofix to show [PATCH] properly.
rename internal format-patch wip
Minor tweak on subject line in --pretty=email
Tentative built-in format-patch.
This makes 'git add' and 'git rm' built-ins.
* lt/dirwalk:
Add builtin "git rm" command
Move pathspec matching from builtin-add.c into dir.c
Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index.
builtin-add: fix unmatched pathspec warnings.
Remove old "git-add.sh" remnants
builtin-add: warn on unmatched pathspecs
Do "git add" as a builtin
Clean up git-ls-file directory walking library interface
libify git-ls-files directory traversal
* master: (119 commits)
diff family: add --check option
Document that "git add" only adds non-ignored files.
Add a conversion tool to migrate remote information into the config
fetch, pull: ask config for remote information
Fix build procedure for builtin-init-db
read-tree -m -u: do not overwrite or remove untracked working tree files.
apply --cached: do not check newly added file in the working tree
Implement a --dry-run option to git-quiltimport
Implement git-quiltimport
Revert "builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep."
builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep.
builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep.
git-am: use apply --cached
apply --cached: apply a patch without using working tree.
apply --numstat: show new name, not old name.
Documentation/Makefile: create tarballs for the man pages and html files
Allow pickaxe and diff-filter options to be used by git log.
Libify the index refresh logic
Builtin git-init-db
Remove unnecessary local in get_ref_sha1.
...
This commit is what this branch is all about. It records the
evil merge needed to adjust built-in git-add and git-rm for
the cache-tree extension.
* lt/dirwalk:
Add builtin "git rm" command
Move pathspec matching from builtin-add.c into dir.c
Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index.
builtin-add: fix unmatched pathspec warnings.
Remove old "git-add.sh" remnants
builtin-add: warn on unmatched pathspecs
Do "git add" as a builtin
Clean up git-ls-file directory walking library interface
libify git-ls-files directory traversal
Conflicts:
Makefile
builtin.h
git.c
update-index.c
* jc/cache-tree: (24 commits)
Fix crash when reading the empty tree
fsck-objects: do not segfault on missing tree in cache-tree
cache-tree: a bit more debugging support.
read-tree: invalidate cache-tree entry when a new index entry is added.
Fix test-dump-cache-tree in one-tree disappeared case.
fsck-objects: mark objects reachable from cache-tree
cache-tree: replace a sscanf() by two strtol() calls
cache-tree.c: typefix
test-dump-cache-tree: validate the cached data as well.
cache_tree_update: give an option to update cache-tree only.
read-tree: teach 1-way merege and plain read to prime cache-tree.
read-tree: teach 1 and 2 way merges about cache-tree.
update-index: when --unresolve, smudge the relevant cache-tree entries.
test-dump-cache-tree: report number of subtrees.
cache-tree: sort the subtree entries.
Teach fsck-objects about cache-tree.
index: make the index file format extensible.
cache-tree: protect against "git prune".
Add test-dump-cache-tree
Use cache-tree in update-index.
...
This cleans up and libifies the "git update-index --[really-]refresh"
functionality. This will be eventually required for eventually doing the
"commit" and "status" commands as built-ins.
It really just moves "refresh_index()" from update-index.c to
read-cache.c, but it also has to change the calling convention so that the
function uses a "unsigned int flags" argument instead of various static
flags variables for passing down the information about whether to be quiet
or not, and allow unmerged entries etc.
That actually cleans up update-index.c too, since it turns out that all
those flags were really specific to that one function of the index update,
so they shouldn't have had file-scope visibility even before.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
An earlier patch from Shawn Pearce dependes on a change that is
only in "next". I do not want to make this series hostage to
the yet-to-graduate js/fmt-patch branch, but let's try fixing it
by merging the early parts of the branch to see what happens.
Right now, 'sp/reflog' will not be in "next" for now, so I won't
have to regret this -- if this merge causes problem down the road
merging I can always rebuild the topic branch ;-).
With this one, it's now a fatal error to try to add a pathname
that cannot be added with "git add", i.e.
[torvalds@g5 git]$ git add .git/config
fatal: unable to add .git/config to index
and
[torvalds@g5 git]$ git add foo/../bar
fatal: unable to add foo/../bar to index
instead of the old "Ignoring path xyz" warning that would end up
silently succeeding on any other paths.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If config parameter core.logAllRefUpdates is true or the log
file already exists then append a line to ".git/logs/refs/<ref>"
whenever git-update-ref <ref> is executed. Each log line contains
the following information:
oldsha1 <SP> newsha1 <SP> committer <LF>
where committer is the current user, date, time and timezone in
the standard GIT ident format. If the caller is unable to append
to the log file then git-update-ref will fail without updating <ref>.
An optional message may be included in the log line with the -m flag.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master: (109 commits)
t1300-repo-config: two new config parsing tests.
Another config file parsing fix.
update-index: plug memory leak from prefix_path()
checkout-index: plug memory leak from prefix_path()
update-index --unresolve: work from a subdirectory.
pack-object: squelch eye-candy on non-tty
core.prefersymlinkrefs: use symlinks for .git/HEAD
repo-config: trim white-space before comment
Fix for config file section parsing.
Clarify git-cherry documentation.
Update git-unpack-objects documentation.
Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly.
Several trivial documentation touch ups.
git-svn 1.0.0
git-svn: documentation updates
delta: stricter constness
Makefile: do not link rev-list any specially.
builtin-push: --all and --tags _are_ explicit refspecs
builtin-log/whatchanged/show: make them official.
show-branch: omit uninteresting merges.
...
This updates the user interface and generated diff data format.
* "diff --binary" is used to signal that we want an e-mailable
binary patch. It implies --full-index and -p.
* "apply --allow-binary-replacement" acquired a short synonym
"apply --binary".
* After the "GIT binary patch\n" header line there is a token
to record which binary patch mechanism was used, so that we
can extend it later. Currently there are two mechanisms
defined: "literal" and "delta". The former records the
deflated postimage and the latter records the deflated delta
from the preimage to postimage.
For purely implementation convenience, I added the deflated
length after these "literal/delta" tokens (otherwise the
decoding side needs to guess and reallocate the buffer while
inflating). Improvement patches are very welcomed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds "binary patch" to the diff output and teaches apply
what to do with them.
On the diff generation side, traditionally, we said "Binary
files differ\n" without giving anything other than the preimage
and postimage object name on the index line. This was good
enough for applying a patch generated from your own repository
(very useful while rebasing), because the postimage would be
available in such a case. However, this was not useful when the
recipient of such a patch via e-mail were to apply it, even if
the preimage was available.
This patch allows the diff to generate "binary" patch when
operating under --full-index option. The binary patch follows
the usual extended git diff headers, and looks like this:
"GIT binary patch\n"
<length byte><data>"\n"
...
"\n"
Each line is prefixed with a "length-byte", whose value is upper
or lowercase alphabet that encodes number of bytes that the data
on the line decodes to (1..52 -- 'A' means 1, 'B' means 2, ...,
'Z' means 26, 'a' means 27, ...). <data> is 1 or more groups of
5-byte sequence, each of which encodes up to 4 bytes in base85
encoding. Because 52 / 4 * 5 = 65 and we have the length byte,
an output line is capped to 66 characters. The payload is the
same diff-delta as we use in the packfiles.
On the consumption side, git-apply now can decode and apply the
binary patch when --allow-binary-replacement is given, the diff
was generated with --full-index, and the receiving repository
has the preimage blob, which is the same condition as it always
required when accepting an "Binary files differ\n" patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When inspecting a project whose build infrastructure used to
assume that .git/HEAD is a symlink ref, core.prefersymlinkrefs
in the config file of such a project would help to bisect its
history.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Still Work-in-progress git fmt-patch (should it be known as
format-patch-ng?) is matched with the fix made by Huw Davies
in 262a6ef76a commit to use
RFC2822 date format.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master:
t0000-basic: more commit-tree tests.
commit-tree.c: check_valid() microoptimization.
Fix filename verification when in a subdirectory
rebase: typofix.
socksetup: don't return on set_reuse_addr() error
If you don't have a "--" marker, then:
- all of the arguments we are going to assume are pathspecs
must exist in the working tree.
- none of the arguments we parsed as revisions could be
interpreted as a filename.
so that there really isn't any possibility of confusion in case
somebody does have a revision that looks like a pathname too.
The former rule has been in effect; this implements the latter.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When we are in a subdirectory of a git archive, we need to take the prefix
of that subdirectory into accoung when we verify filename arguments.
Noted by Matthias Lederhofer
This also uses the improved error reporting for all the other git commands
that use the revision parsing interfaces, not just git-rev-parse. Also, it
makes the error reporting for mixed filenames and argument flags clearer
(you cannot put flags after the start of the pathname list).
[jc: with fix to a trivial typo noticed by Timo Hirvonen]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
read_cache_1() and write_cache_1() takes an extra parameter
*sha1 that returns the checksum of the index file when non-NULL.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Introduce tree-walk.[ch] and move "struct tree_desc" and
associated functions from various places.
Rename DIFF_FILE_CANON_MODE(mode) macro to canon_mode(mode) and
move it to cache.h. This macro returns the canonicalized
st_mode value in the host byte order for files, symlinks and
directories -- to be compared with a tree_desc entry.
create_ce_mode(mode) in cache.h is similar but is intended to be
used for index entries (so it does not work for directories) and
returns the value in the network byte order.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Sometimes it is convient for a Porcelain to be able to checkout all
unmerged files in all stages so that an external merge tool can be
executed by the Porcelain or the end-user. Using git-unpack-file
on each stage individually incurs a rather high penalty due to the
need to fork for each file version obtained. git-checkout-index -a
--stage=all will now do the same thing, but faster.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* lt/rev-list:
setup_revisions(): handle -n<n> and -<n> internally.
git-log (internal): more options.
git-log (internal): add approxidate.
Rip out merge-order and make "git log <paths>..." work again.
Tie it all together: "git log"
Introduce trivial new pager.c helper infrastructure
git-rev-list libification: rev-list walking
Splitting rev-list into revisions lib, end of beginning.
rev-list split: minimum fixup.
First cut at libifying revlist generation
This introduces the new function
void setup_pager(void);
to set up output to be written through a pager applocation.
All in preparation for doing the simple scripts in C.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new configuration option apply.whitespace can take one of
"warn", "error", "error-all", or "strip". When git-apply is run
to apply the patch to the index, they are used as the default
value if there is no command line --whitespace option.
Andrew can now tell people who feed him git trees to update to
this version and say:
git repo-config apply.whitespace error
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Fix -Wundef -Wold-style-definition warnings
- Make pll_free() static
[jc: original patch by Timo had another unrelated bits:
- Use setenv() instead of putenv()
I'm postponing that part for now.]
Signed-off-by: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/nostat:
cache_name_compare() compares name and stage, nothing else.
"assume unchanged" git: documentation.
ls-files: split "show-valid-bit" into a different option.
"Assume unchanged" git: --really-refresh fix.
ls-files: debugging aid for CE_VALID changes.
"Assume unchanged" git: do not set CE_VALID with --refresh
"Assume unchanged" git
Previous one warned people upfront to encourage fixing their
environment early, but some people just use repositories and git
tools read-only without making any changes, and in such a case
there is not much point insisting on them having a usable ident.
This round attempts to move the error until either "git-var"
asks for the ident explicitly or "commit-tree" wants to use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It used to be that "git-unpack-objects" would give nice percentages, but
now that we don't unpack the initial clone pack any more, it doesn't. And
I'd love to do that nice percentage view in the pack objects downloader
too, but the thing doesn't even read the pack header, much less know how
much it's going to get, so I was lazy and didn't.
Instead, it at least prints out how much data it's gotten, and what the
packing speed is. Which makes the user realize that it's actually doing
something useful instead of sitting there silently (and if the recipient
knows how large the final result is, he can at least make a guess about
when it migt be done).
So with this patch, I get something like this on my DSL line:
[torvalds@g5 ~]$ time git clone master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 clone-test
Packing 188543 objects
48.398MB (154 kB/s)
where even the speed approximation seems to be roughtly correct (even
though my algorithm is a truly stupid one, and only really gives "speed in
the last half second or so").
Anyway, _something_ like this is definitely needed. It could certainly be
better (if it showed the same kind of thing that git-unpack-objects did,
that would be much nicer, but would require parsing the object stream as
it comes in). But this is big step forward, I think.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds "assume unchanged" logic, started by this message in the list
discussion recently:
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0601311807470.7301@g5.osdl.org>
This is a workaround for filesystems that do not have lstat()
that is quick enough for the index mechanism to take advantage
of. On the paths marked as "assumed to be unchanged", the user
needs to explicitly use update-index to register the object name
to be in the next commit.
You can use two new options to update-index to set and reset the
CE_VALID bit:
git-update-index --assume-unchanged path...
git-update-index --no-assume-unchanged path...
These forms manipulate only the CE_VALID bit; it does not change
the object name recorded in the index file. Nor they add a new
entry to the index.
When the configuration variable "core.ignorestat = true" is set,
the index entries are marked with CE_VALID bit automatically
after:
- update-index to explicitly register the current object name to the
index file.
- when update-index --refresh finds the path to be up-to-date.
- when tools like read-tree -u and apply --index update the working
tree file and register the current object name to the index file.
The flag is dropped upon read-tree that does not check out the index
entry. This happens regardless of the core.ignorestat settings.
Index entries marked with CE_VALID bit are assumed to be
unchanged most of the time. However, there are cases that
CE_VALID bit is ignored for the sake of safety and usability:
- while "git-read-tree -m" or git-apply need to make sure
that the paths involved in the merge do not have local
modifications. This sacrifices performance for safety.
- when git-checkout-index -f -q -u -a tries to see if it needs
to checkout the paths. Otherwise you can never check
anything out ;-).
- when git-update-index --really-refresh (a new flag) tries to
see if the index entry is up to date. You can start with
everything marked as CE_VALID and run this once to drop
CE_VALID bit for paths that are modified.
Most notably, "update-index --refresh" honours CE_VALID and does
not actively stat, so after you modified a file in the working
tree, update-index --refresh would not notice until you tell the
index about it with "git-update-index path" or "git-update-index
--no-assume-unchanged path".
This version is not expected to be perfect. I think diff
between index and/or tree and working files may need some
adjustment, and there probably needs other cases we should
automatically unmark paths that are marked to be CE_VALID.
But the basics seem to work, and ready to be tested by people
who asked for this feature.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The minimum length of abbreviated object name was hardcoded in
different places to be 4, risking inconsistencies in the future.
Also there were three different "default abbreviation
precision". Use two C preprocessor symbols to clean up this
mess.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes read_tree_recursive and read_tree take a struct tree
instead of a buffer. It also move the declaration of read_tree into
tree.h (where struct tree is defined), and updates ls-tree and
diff-index (the only places that presently use read_tree*()) to use
the new versions.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When overriding DT_* macro detection with NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT (recent
Cygwin build problem, which hopefully is already fixed in their CVS
snapshot version), we define DTYPE() macro to return just "we do not
know", but still needed to use DT_* macro to avoid ifdef in the code
we use them. If the platform defines DT_* macro but with unusable
d_type, this would have resulted in us redefining these preprocessor
symbols.
Admittedly, that would be just a couple of compilation warnings, and
on Cygwin at least this particular problem is transitory (the problem
is already fixed in their CVS snapshot version), so this is a low
priority fix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The recent Cygwin defines DT_UNKNOWN although it does not have d_type
in struct dirent. Give an option to tell us not to use d_type on such
platforms. Hopefully this problem will be transient.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
ISO C99 (and GCC 3.x or later) lets you write a flexible array
at the end of a structure, like this:
struct frotz {
int xyzzy;
char nitfol[]; /* more */
};
GCC 2.95 and 2.96 let you to do this with "char nitfol[0]";
unfortunately this is not allowed by ISO C90.
This declares such construct like this:
struct frotz {
int xyzzy;
char nitfol[FLEX_ARRAY]; /* more */
};
and git-compat-util.h defines FLEX_ARRAY to 0 for gcc 2.95 and
empty for others.
If you are using a C90 C compiler, you should be able
to override this with CFLAGS=-DFLEX_ARRAY=1 from the
command line of "make".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If the config variable 'core.sharedrepository' is set, the directories
$GIT_DIR/objects/
$GIT_DIR/objects/??
$GIT_DIR/objects/pack
$GIT_DIR/refs
$GIT_DIR/refs/heads
$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/tags
are set group writable (and g+s, since the git group may be not the primary
group of all users).
Since all files are written as lock files first, and then moved to
their destination, they do not have to be group writable. Indeed, if
this leads to problems you found a bug.
Note that -- as in my first attempt -- the config variable is set in the
function which checks the repository format. If this were done in
git_default_config instead, a lot of programs would need to be modified
to call git_config(git_default_config) first.
[jc: git variables should be in environment.c unless there is a
compelling reason to do otherwise.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Split out the functions that deal with the socketpair after
finishing git protocol handshake to receive the packed data into
a separate file, and use it in fetch-pack to keep/explode the
received pack data. We earlier had something like that on
clone-pack side once, but the list discussion resulted in the
decision that it makes sense to always keep the pack for
clone-pack, so unpacking option is not enabled on the clone-pack
side, but we later still could do so easily if we wanted to with
this change.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In order to support getting data into git with scripts, this adds a
--stdin option to git-hash-object, which will make it read from stdin.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This attempts to clean up the way various compatibility
functions are defined and used.
- A new header file, git-compat-util.h, is introduced. This
looks at various NO_XXX and does necessary function name
replacements, equivalent of -Dstrcasestr=gitstrcasestr in the
Makefile.
- Those function name replacements are removed from the Makefile.
- Common features such as usage(), die(), xmalloc() are moved
from cache.h to git-compat-util.h; cache.h includes
git-compat-util.h itself.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- prefix_filename() is like prefix_path() but can be used to
name any file on the filesystem, not the files that might go
into the index file.
- setup_git_directory_gently() tries to find the GIT_DIR, but does
not die() if called outside a git repository.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is to hold what the project-local rule as to the
charset/encoding for the commit log message is. Lack of it
defaults to utf-8.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes init-db repository version aware.
It checks if an existing config file says the repository being
reinitialized is of a wrong version and aborts before doing
further harm.
When copying the templates, it makes sure the they are of the
right repository format version. Otherwise the templates are
ignored with an warning message.
It copies the templates before creating the HEAD, and if the
config file is copied from the template directory, reads it,
primarily to pick up the value of core.symrefsonly.
It changes the way the result of the filemode reliability test
is written to the configuration file using git_config_set().
The test is done even if the config file was copied from the
templates.
And finally, our own repository format version is written to the
config file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
var.c::git_var read function did not have to return writable
strings; make it and the functions it points at return const char *
instead.
ident.c::get_ident() did not need to be global, so make it
static.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Make some functions static and convert func() function prototypes to to
func(void). Fix declaration after statement, missing declaration and
redundant declaration warnings.
Signed-off-by: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
... namely
--replace-all, to replace any amount of matching lines, not just 0 or 1,
--get, to get the value of one key,
--get-all, the multivar version of --get, and
--unset-all, which deletes all matching lines from .git/config
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch provides the work-horse of the user-relative paths feature,
using Linus' idea of a blind chdir() and getcwd() which makes it
remarkably simple.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The function git_config_set() does exactly what you think it does.
Given a key (in the form "core.filemode") and a value, it sets the
key to the value. Example:
git_config_set("core.filemode", "true");
The function git_config_set_multivar() is meant for setting variables which
can have several values for the same key. Example:
[diff]
twohead = resolve
twohead = recarsive
the typo in the second line can be replaced by
git_config_set_multivar("diff.twohead", "recursive", "^recar");
The third argument of the function is a POSIX extended regex which has to
match the value. If there is no key/value pair with a matching value, a new
key/value pair is added.
These commands are also capable of unsetting (deleting) entries:
git_config_set_multivar("diff.twohead", NULL, "sol");
will delete the entry
twohead = resolve
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Ok. This is the insane patch to do this.
It really isn't very careful, and the reason I call it "approxidate()"
will become obvious when you look at the code. It is very liberal in what
it accepts, to the point where sometimes the results may not make a whole
lot of sense.
It accepts "last week" as a date string, by virtue of "last" parsing as
the number 1, and it totally ignoring superfluous fluff like "ago", so
"last week" ends up being exactly the same thing as "1 week ago". Fine so
far.
It has strange side effects: "last december" will actually parse as "Dec
1", which actually _does_ turn out right, because it will then notice that
it's not December yet, so it will decide that you must be talking about a
date last year. So it actually gets it right, but it's kind of for the
"wrong" reasons.
It also accepts the numbers 1..10 in string format ("one" .. "ten"), so
you can do "ten weeks ago" or "ten hours ago" and it will do the right
thing.
But it will do some really strange thigns too: the string "this will last
forever", will not recognize anyting but "last", which is recognized as
"1", which since it doesn't understand anything else it will think is the
day of the month. So if you do
gitk --since="this will last forever"
the date will actually parse as the first day of the current month.
And it will parse the string "now" as "now", but only because it doesn't
understand it at all, and it makes everything relative to "now".
Similarly, it doesn't actually parse the "ago" or "from now", so "2 weeks
ago" is exactly the same as "2 weeks from now". It's the current date
minus 14 days.
But hey, it's probably better (and certainly faster) than depending on GNU
date. So now you can portably do things like
gitk --since="two weeks and three days ago"
git log --since="July 5"
git-whatchanged --since="10 hours ago"
git log --since="last october"
and it will actually do exactly what you thought it would do (I think). It
will count 17 days backwards, and it will do so even if you don't have GNU
date installed.
(I don't do "last monday" or similar yet, but I can extend it to that too
if people want).
It was kind of fun trying to write code that uses such totally relaxed
"understanding" of dates yet tries to get it right for the trivial cases.
The result should be mixed with a few strange preprocessor tricks, and be
submitted for the IOCCC ;)
Feel free to try it out, and see how many strange dates it gets right. Or
wrong.
And if you find some interesting (and valid - not "interesting" as in
"strange", but "interesting" as in "I'd be interested in actually doing
this) thing it gets wrong - usually by not understanding it and silently
just doing some strange things - please holler.
Now, as usual this certainly hasn't been getting a lot of testing. But my
code always works, no?
Linus
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
