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Alex Henrie
9c9b4f2f8b standardize usage info string format
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:

- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-14 09:32:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e886efdb34 Merge branch 'jk/colors-fix'
* jk/colors-fix:
  t4026: test "normal" color
  config: fix parsing of "git config --get-color some.key -1"
  docs: describe ANSI 256-color mode
2014-12-12 14:31:39 -08:00
Jeff King
d0e08d6233 config: fix parsing of "git config --get-color some.key -1"
Most of git-config's command line options use OPT_BIT to
choose an action, and then parse the non-option arguments
in a context-dependent way. However, --get-color and
--get-colorbool are unlike the rest of the options, in that
they are OPT_STRING, taking the option name as a parameter.

This generally works, because we then use the presence of
those strings to set an action bit anyway. But it does mean
that the option-parser will continue looking for options
even after the key (because it is not a non-option; it is an
argument to an option). And running:

  git config --get-color some.key -1

(to use "-1" as the default color spec) will barf, claiming
that "-1" is not an option. Instead, we should treat
--get-color and --get-colorbool as action bits, just like
--add, --get, and all the other actions, and then check that
the non-option arguments we got are sane. This fixes the
weirdness above, and makes those two options like all the
others.

This "fixes" a test in t4026, which checked that feeding
"-2" as a color should fail (it does fail, but prior to this
patch, because parseopt barfed, not because we actually ever
tried to parse the color).

This also catches other errors, like:

  git config --get-color some.key black blue

which previously silently ignored "blue" (and now will
complain that you gave too many arguments).

There are some possible regressions, though. We now disallow
these, which currently do what you would expect:

  # specifying other options after the action
  git config --get-color some.key --file whatever

  # using long-arg syntax
  git config --get-color=some.key

However, we have never advertised these in the
documentation, and in fact they did not work in some older
versions of git. The behavior was apparently switched as an
accidental side effect of d64ec16 (git config: reorganize to
use parseopt, 2009-02-21).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-20 10:52:23 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
3696a7c2d9 cmd_config(): make a copy of path obtained from git_path()
The strings returned by git_path() are recycled after a while.  Make
a copy of the config filename rather than holding onto the return
value from git_path().

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-17 09:24:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b946576839 Merge branch 'jn/parse-config-slot'
Code cleanup.

* jn/parse-config-slot:
  color_parse: do not mention variable name in error message
  pass config slots as pointers instead of offsets
2014-10-20 12:23:48 -07:00
Jeff King
f6c5a2968c color_parse: do not mention variable name in error message
Originally the color-parsing function was used only for
config variables. It made sense to pass the variable name so
that the die() message could be something like:

  $ git -c color.branch.plain=bogus branch
  fatal: bad color value 'bogus' for variable 'color.branch.plain'

These days we call it in other contexts, and the resulting
error messages are a little confusing:

  $ git log --pretty='%C(bogus)'
  fatal: bad color value 'bogus' for variable '--pretty format'

  $ git config --get-color foo.bar bogus
  fatal: bad color value 'bogus' for variable 'command line'

This patch teaches color_parse to complain only about the
value, and then return an error code. Config callers can
then propagate that up to the config parser, which mentions
the variable name. Other callers can provide a custom
message. After this patch these three cases now look like:

  $ git -c color.branch.plain=bogus branch
  error: invalid color value: bogus
  fatal: unable to parse 'color.branch.plain' from command-line config

  $ git log --pretty='%C(bogus)'
  error: invalid color value: bogus
  fatal: unable to parse --pretty format

  $ git config --get-color foo.bar bogus
  error: invalid color value: bogus
  fatal: unable to parse default color value

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-14 11:01:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
102edda4df Merge branch 'ta/config-add-to-empty-or-true-fix' into maint
"git config --add section.var val" used to lose existing
section.var whose value was an empty string.

* ta/config-add-to-empty-or-true-fix:
  config: avoid a funny sentinel value "a^"
  make config --add behave correctly for empty and NULL values
2014-09-29 22:10:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4daf5c8643 Merge branch 'ta/config-add-to-empty-or-true-fix'
"git config --add section.var val" used to lose existing
section.var whose value was an empty string.

* ta/config-add-to-empty-or-true-fix:
  config: avoid a funny sentinel value "a^"
  make config --add behave correctly for empty and NULL values
2014-09-19 11:38:40 -07:00
Jeff King
c1063be2a3 config: avoid a funny sentinel value "a^"
Introduce CONFIG_REGEX_NONE as a more explicit sentinel value to say
"we do not want to replace any existing entry" and use it in the
implementation of "git config --add".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-11 16:33:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1d8a6f6929 Merge branch 'mm/config-edit-global'
Start "git config --edit --global" from a skeletal per-user
configuration file contents, instead of a total blank, when the
user does not already have any.  This immediately reduces the need
for a later "Have you forgotten setting core.user?" and we can add
more to the template as we gain more experience.

* mm/config-edit-global:
  commit: advertise config --global --edit on guessed identity
  home_config_paths(): let the caller ignore xdg path
  config --global --edit: create a template file if needed
2014-09-02 13:23:20 -07:00
Tanay Abhra
c8466645ed make config --add behave correctly for empty and NULL values
Currently if we have a config file like,
[foo]
        baz
        bar =

and we try something like, "git config --add foo.baz roll", Git will
segfault. Moreover, for "git config --add foo.bar roll", it will
overwrite the original value instead of appending after the existing
empty value.

The problem lies with the regexp used for simulating --add in
`git_config_set_multivar_in_file()`, "^$", which in ideal case should
not match with any string but is true for empty strings. Instead use a
regexp like "a^" which can not be true for any string, empty or not.

For removing the segfault add a check for NULL values in `matches()` in
config.c.

Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-18 10:45:59 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
9830534e40 config --global --edit: create a template file if needed
When the user has no ~/.gitconfig file, git config --global --edit used
to launch an editor on an nonexistant file name.

Instead, create a file with a default content before launching the
editor. The template contains only commented-out entries, to save a few
keystrokes for the user. If the values are guessed properly, the user
will only have to uncomment the entries.

Advanced users teaching newbies can create a minimalistic configuration
faster for newbies. Beginners reading a tutorial advising to run "git
config --global --edit" as a first step will be slightly more guided for
their first contact with Git.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-25 12:23:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b4516df9b8 Merge branch 'jk/daemon-tolower'
* jk/daemon-tolower:
  daemon/config: factor out duplicate xstrdup_tolower
2014-06-16 10:07:15 -07:00
Jeff King
88d5a6f6cd daemon/config: factor out duplicate xstrdup_tolower
We have two implementations of the same function; let's drop
that to one. We take the name from daemon.c, but the
implementation (which is just slightly more efficient) from
the config code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-23 12:39:44 -07:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
3caec73b55 config: teach "git config --file -" to read from the standard input
The patch extends git config --file interface to allow read config from
stdin.

Editing stdin or setting value in stdin is an error.

Include by absolute path is allowed in stdin config, but not by relative
path.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-18 16:12:14 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
c8985ce053 config: change git_config_with_options() interface
We're going to have more options for config source.

Let's alter git_config_with_options() interface to accept struct with
all source options.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-18 16:12:13 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
6aea9f0fdd builtin/config.c: rename check_blob_write() -> check_write()
The function will be reused to check for other conditions which prevent
write.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-18 16:12:11 -08:00
John Keeping
eb8e7e1d9a repo-config: remove deprecated alias for "git config"
The release notes for Git 1.5.4 say that "git repo-config" will be
removed in the next feature release.  Since Git 2.0 is nearly here,
remove it.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 14:10:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c7c377d83f Merge branch 'jk/config-int-range-check'
"git config" did not provide a way to set or access numbers larger
than a native "int" on the platform; it now provides 64-bit signed
integers on all platforms.

* jk/config-int-range-check:
  git-config: always treat --int as 64-bit internally
  config: make numeric parsing errors more clear
  config: set errno in numeric git_parse_* functions
  config: properly range-check integer values
  config: factor out integer parsing from range checks
2013-09-12 14:41:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a0a08d48d0 Merge branch 'jc/url-match'
Allow section.<urlpattern>.var configuration variables to be
treated as a "virtual" section.var given a URL, and use the
mechanism to enhance http.* configuration variables.

This is a reroll of Kyle J. McKay's work.

* jc/url-match:
  builtin/config.c: compilation fix
  config: "git config --get-urlmatch" parses section.<url>.key
  builtin/config: refactor collect_config()
  config: parse http.<url>.<variable> using urlmatch
  config: add generic callback wrapper to parse section.<url>.key
  config: add helper to normalize and match URLs
  http.c: fix parsing of http.sslCertPasswordProtected variable
2013-09-09 14:50:36 -07:00
Jeff King
0016024277 git-config: always treat --int as 64-bit internally
When you run "git config --int", the maximum size of integer
you get depends on how git was compiled, and what it
considers to be an "int".

This is almost useful, because your scripts calling "git
config" will behave similarly to git internally. But relying
on this is dubious; you have to actually know how git treats
each value internally (e.g., int versus unsigned long),
which is not documented and is subject to change. And even
if you know it is "unsigned long", we do not have a
git-config option to match that behavior.

Furthermore, you may simply be asking git to store a value
on your behalf (e.g., configuration for a hook). In that
case, the relevant range check has nothing at all to do with
git, but rather with whatever scripting tools you are using
(and git has no way of knowing what the appropriate range is
there).

Not only is the range check useless, but it is actively
harmful, as there is no way at all for scripts to look
at config variables with large values. For instance, one
cannot reliably get the value of pack.packSizeLimit via
git-config. On an LP64 system, git happily uses a 64-bit
"unsigned long" internally to represent the value, but the
script cannot read any value over 2G.

Ideally, the "--int" option would simply represent an
arbitrarily large integer. For practical purposes, however,
a 64-bit integer is large enough, and is much easier to
implement (and if somebody overflows it, we will still
notice the problem, and not simply return garbage).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:12:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6667a6ac20 builtin/config.c: compilation fix
Do not feed a random string as the first parameter to die(); use "%s"
as the format string instead.

Do the same for test-urlmatch-normalization.c while saving a single
pointer variable by turning a "const char *" constant string into
"const char []", which is sufficient to squelch compilation warning
(the compiler can see usage[] given to die() is a constant and will
never have conversion specifiers that cause trouble).  But for a
good measure, give them the same "%s" treatment as well.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-09 09:20:38 -07:00
Stefan Beller
21e047dcad config parsing options: allow one flag multiple times
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN,
2011-09-27).

This commit introduces a change for the users, after this patch
you can pass one of the config level flags multiple times:
Before:
	$ git config --global --global --list
	error: only one config file at a time.
	usage: ...

Afterwards this will work. This is due to the following check in the code:
	if (use_global_config + use_system_config + use_local_config +
	    !!given_config_file + !!given_config_blob > 1) {
		error("only one config file at a time.");
		usage_with_options(builtin_config_usage, builtin_config_options);
	}

With OPT_BOOL instead of OPT_BOOLEAN the variables use_global_config,
use_system_config, use_local_config will only have the value 0 if the
command line option was not passed or 1 no matter how often the
respective command line option was passed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-07 08:36:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d4770964d5 config: "git config --get-urlmatch" parses section.<url>.key
Using the same urlmatch_config_entry() infrastructure, add a new
mode "--get-urlmatch" to the "git config" command, to learn values
for the "virtual" two-level variables customized for the specific
URL.

    git config [--<type>] --get-urlmatch <section>[.<key>] <url>

With <section>.<key> fully specified, the configuration data for
<section>.<urlpattern>.<key> for <urlpattern> that best matches the
given <url> is sought (and if not found, <section>.<key> is used)
and reported.  For example, with this configuration:

    [http]
        sslVerify
    [http "https://weak.example.com"]
        cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt
        sslVerify = false

You would get

    $ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://good.example.com
    true
    $ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://weak.example.com
    false

With only <section> specified, you can get a list of all variables
in the section with their values that apply to the given URL.  E.g

    $ git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
    http.cookiefile /tmp/cookie.txt
    http.sslverify false

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 16:02:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d9b9169b34 builtin/config: refactor collect_config()
In order to reuse the logic to format the configuration value while
honouring the requested type, split this function into two.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 16:02:28 -07:00
Stefan Beller
d5d09d4754 Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOL
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN,
2011-09-27). All occurrences of the respective variables have
been reviewed and none of them relied on the counting up mechanism,
but all of them were using the variable as a true boolean.

This patch does not change semantics of any command intentionally.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 11:32:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c714f9fd8a Merge branch 'hv/config-from-blob'
Allow configuration data to be read from in-tree blob objects,
which would help working in a bare repository and submodule
updates.

* hv/config-from-blob:
  do not die when error in config parsing of buf occurs
  teach config --blob option to parse config from database
  config: make parsing stack struct independent from actual data source
  config: drop cf validity check in get_next_char()
  config: factor out config file stack management
2013-07-22 11:24:09 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
1bc888193e teach config --blob option to parse config from database
This can be used to read configuration values directly from git's
database. For example it is useful for reading to be checked out
.gitmodules files directly from the database.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12 09:34:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
73018c0f0b Merge branch 'mm/color-auto-default'
Flip the default for color.ui to 'auto', which is what many
tutorials recommend new users to do.

* mm/color-auto-default:
  make color.ui default to 'auto'
  config: refactor management of color.ui's default value
2013-06-20 16:02:33 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
4c7f1819b3 make color.ui default to 'auto'
Most users seem to like having colors enabled, and colors can help
beginners to understand the output of some commands (e.g. notice
immediately the boundary between commits in the output of "git log").

Many tutorials tell the users to set color.ui=auto as a very first step,
which tend to indicate that color.ui=none is not the recommanded value,
hence should not be the default.

These tutorials would benefit from skipping this step and starting the
real Git manipulations earlier. Other beginners do not know about
color.ui=auto, and may not discover it by themselves, hence live with
black&white outputs while they may have preferred colors.

A few people (e.g. color-blind) prefer having no colors, but they can
easily set color.ui=never for this (and googling "disable colors in git"
already tells them how to do so), but this needs not occupy space in
beginner-oriented documentations.

A transition period with Git emitting a warning when color.ui is unset
would be possible, but the discomfort of having the warning seems
superior to the benefit: users may be surprised by the change, but not
harmed by it.

The default value is changed, and the documentation is reworded to
mention "color.ui=false" first, since the primary use of color.ui after
this change is to disable colors, not to enable it.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-10 10:55:42 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
b8612b4da4 config: refactor management of color.ui's default value
The meaning of get_colorbool_found and get_diff_color_found is "the
config value if found, and -1 otherwise", but get_color_ui_found had a
slightly different meaning, as it has the value 0 (which corresponds to
the default value from the user point of view) when color.ui is unset.

Make get_color_ui_found default to -1, and make it explicit that 0 is the
default value when nothing else is found.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-15 11:02:19 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
4698c8feb1 config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOME
The changes v1.7.12.1~2^2~4 (config: warn on inaccessible files,
2012-08-21) and v1.8.1.1~22^2~2 (config: treat user and xdg config
permission problems as errors, 2012-10-13) were intended to prevent
important configuration (think "[transfer] fsckobjects") from being
ignored when the configuration is unintentionally unreadable (for
example with EIO on a flaky filesystem, or with ENOMEM due to a DoS
attack).  Usually ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git are readable by the
current user, and if they aren't then it would be easy to fix those
permissions, so the damage from adding this check should have been
minimal.

Unfortunately the access() check often trips when git is being run as
a server.  A daemon (such as inetd or git-daemon) starts as "root",
creates a listening socket, and then drops privileges, meaning that
when git commands are invoked they cannot access $HOME and die with

 fatal: unable to access '/root/.config/git/config': Permission denied

Any patch to fix this would have one of three problems:

  1. We annoy sysadmins who need to take an extra step to handle HOME
     when dropping privileges (the current behavior, or any other
     proposal that they have to opt into).

  2. We annoy sysadmins who want to set HOME when dropping privileges,
     either by making what they want to do impossible, or making them
     set an extra variable or option to accomplish what used to work
     (e.g., a patch to git-daemon to set HOME when --user is passed).

  3. We loosen the check, so some cases which might be noteworthy are
     not caught.

This patch is of type (3).

Treat user and xdg configuration that are inaccessible due to
permissions (EACCES) as though no user configuration was provided at
all.

An alternative method would be to check if $HOME is readable, but that
would not help in cases where the user who dropped privileges had a
globally readable HOME with only .config or .gitconfig being private.

This does not change the behavior when /etc/gitconfig or .git/config
is unreadable (since those are more serious configuration errors),
nor when ~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git is unreadable due to problems
other than permissions.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 07:26:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2739889c98 Merge branch 'jk/config-ignore-duplicates'
Drop duplicate detection from "git-config --get"; this lets it
better match the internal config callbacks, which clears up some
corner cases with includes.

* jk/config-ignore-duplicates:
  builtin/config.c: Fix a sparse warning
  git-config: use git_config_with_options
  git-config: do not complain about duplicate entries
  git-config: collect values instead of immediately printing
  git-config: fix regexp memory leaks on error conditions
  git-config: remove memory leak of key regexp
  t1300: test "git config --get-all" more thoroughly
  t1300: remove redundant test
  t1300: style updates
2012-11-21 13:16:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0f76f97676 Merge branch 'cn/config-missing-path'
"git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean
"true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true").

* cn/config-missing-path:
  config: don't segfault when given --path with a missing value
2012-11-20 10:40:46 -08:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
962c38eedd config: don't segfault when given --path with a missing value
When given a variable without a value, such as '[section] var' and
asking git-config to treat it as a path, git_config_pathname returns
an error and doesn't modify its output parameter. show_config assumes
that the call is always successful and sets a variable to indicate
that vptr should be freed. In case of an error however, trying to do
this will cause the program to be killed, as it's pointing to memory
in the stack.

Detect the error and return immediately to avoid freeing or accessing
the uninitialed memory in the stack.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-15 18:12:17 -08:00
Ramsay Jones
5ba1a8a735 builtin/config.c: Fix a sparse warning
Sparse issues an "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" warning while
checking a 'struct strbuf_list' initializer expression. The initial
field of the struct has pointer type, but the initializer expression
is given as '{0}'. In order to suppress the warning, we simply replace
the initializer with '{NULL}'.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-29 01:48:06 -04:00
Jeff King
e895589883 git-config: use git_config_with_options
The git-config command has always implemented its own file
lookup and parsing order. This was necessary because its
duplicate-entry handling did not match the way git's
internal callbacks worked. Now that this is no longer the
case, we are free to reuse the existing parsing code.

This saves us a few lines of code, but most importantly, it
means that the logic for which files are examined is
contained only in one place and cannot diverge.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-24 03:36:58 -04:00
Jeff King
00b347d3aa git-config: do not complain about duplicate entries
If git-config is asked for a single value, it will complain
and exit with an error if it finds multiple instances of
that value. This is unlike the usual internal config
parsing, however, which will generally overwrite previous
values, leaving only the final one. For example:

  [set a multivar]
  $ git config user.email one@example.com
  $ git config --add user.email two@example.com

  [use the internal parser to fetch it]
  $ git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT
  Your Name <two@example.com> ...

  [use git-config to fetch it]
  $ git config user.email
  one@example.com
  error: More than one value for the key user.email: two@example.com

This overwriting behavior is critical for the regular
parser, which starts with the lowest-priority file (e.g.,
/etc/gitconfig) and proceeds to the highest-priority file
($GIT_DIR/config). Overwriting yields the highest priority
value at the end.

Git-config solves this problem by implementing its own
parsing. It goes from highest to lowest priorty, but does
not proceed to the next file if it has seen a value.

So in practice, this distinction never mattered much,
because it only triggered for values in the same file. And
there was not much point in doing that; the real value is in
overwriting values from lower-priority files.

However, this changed with the implementation of config
include files. Now we might see an include overriding a
value from the parent file, which is a sensible thing to do,
but git-config will flag as a duplication.

This patch drops the duplicate detection for git-config and
switches to a pure-overwrite model (for the single case;
--get-all can still be used if callers want to do something
more fancy).

As is shown by the modifications to the test suite, this is
a user-visible change in behavior. An alternative would be
to just change the include case, but this is much cleaner
for a few reasons:

  1. If you change the include case, then to what? If you
     just stop parsing includes after getting a value, then
     you will get a _different_ answer than the regular
     config parser (you'll get the first value instead of
     the last value). So you'd want to implement overwrite
     semantics anyway.

  2. Even though it is a change in behavior for git-config,
     it is bringing us in line with what the internal
     parsers already do.

  3. The file-order reimplementation is the only thing
     keeping us from sharing more code with the internal
     config parser, which will help keep differences to a
     minimum.

Going under the assumption that the primary purpose of
git-config is to behave identically to how git's internal
parsing works, this change can be seen as a bug-fix.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-24 03:36:55 -04:00
Jeff King
7acdd6f0bc git-config: collect values instead of immediately printing
This is a refactor that will allow us to more easily tweak
the behavior for multi-valued variables, and it will
ultimately allow us to remove a lot git-config's custom code
in favor of the regular git_config code.

It does mean we're no longer streaming, and we're storing
more in memory for the --get-all case, but in practice it is
a tiny amount of data, and the results are instantaneous.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-24 03:36:54 -04:00
Jeff King
97ed50f93b git-config: fix regexp memory leaks on error conditions
The get_value function has a goto label for cleaning up on
errors, but it only cleans up half of what the function
might allocate. Let's also clean up the key and regexp
variables there.

Note that we need to take special care when compiling the
regex fails to clean it up ourselves, since it is in a
half-constructed state (we would want to free it, but not
regfree it).

Similarly, we fix git_config_parse_key to return NULL when
it fails, not a pointer to some already-freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-24 03:36:54 -04:00
Jeff King
35998c8938 git-config: remove memory leak of key regexp
This is only called once per invocation, so it's not a major
leak, but it's easy to fix.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-24 03:36:53 -04:00
Junio C Hamano
096bbd6537 Merge branch 'nd/i18n-parseopt-help'
A lot of i18n mark-up for the help text from "git <cmd> -h".

* nd/i18n-parseopt-help: (66 commits)
  Use imperative form in help usage to describe an action
  Reduce translations by using same terminologies
  i18n: write-tree: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: verify-tag: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: verify-pack: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: update-server-info: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: update-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: update-index: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: tag: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: symbolic-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: show-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: show-branch: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: shortlog: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: rm: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: revert, cherry-pick: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: rev-parse: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: reset: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: rerere: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: status: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: replace: mark parseopt strings for translation
  ...
2012-09-07 11:09:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7fe136d78f Merge branch 'jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths'
When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read
them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing
files that we cannot read.

* jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths:
  warn_on_inaccessible(): a helper to warn on inaccessible paths
  attr: warn on inaccessible attribute files
  gitignore: report access errors of exclude files
  config: warn on inaccessible files
2012-09-07 11:08:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3e06f5ff38 Merge branch 'jc/maint-config-exit-status'
The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
being incorrect.  Update the implementation to give the documented
status for a case that was documented, and introduce a new code for
"all other errors".

* jc/maint-config-exit-status:
  config: "git config baa" should exit with status 1
2012-09-03 15:53:07 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
f63cf8c9fb Use imperative form in help usage to describe an action
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-22 12:02:28 -07:00
Jeff King
ba8bd8300a config: warn on inaccessible files
Before reading a config file, we check "!access(path, R_OK)"
to make sure that the file exists and is readable. If it's
not, then we silently ignore it.

For the case of ENOENT, this is fine, as the presence of the
file is optional. For other cases, though, it may indicate a
configuration error (e.g., not having permissions to read
the file). Let's print a warning in these cases to let the
user know.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-21 14:46:11 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
1bd31ce691 i18n: config: mark parseopt strings for translation
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-20 12:23:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9409c7a5b3 config: "git config baa" should exit with status 1
We instead failed with an undocumented exit status 255.
Also define a "catch-all" status and document it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-30 08:51:26 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
e3ebc35b16 config: fix several access(NULL) calls
When $HOME is unset, home_config_paths fails and returns NULL pointers
for user_config and xdg_config. Valgrind complains with Syscall param
access(pathname) points to unaddressable byte(s).

Don't call blindly access() on these variables, but test them for
NULL-ness before.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-16 09:59:06 -07:00
Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen
0e8593dc5b config: write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file when appropriate
Teach git to write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config if

 - it already exists,
 - $HOME/.gitconfig file doesn't, and
 - The --global option is used.

Otherwise, write to $HOME/.gitconfig when the --global option is
given, as before.

If the user doesn't create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config, there is
absolutely no change. Users can use this new file only if they want.

If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
will be used.

Advice for users who often come back to an old version of Git: you
shouldn't create this file.

Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-25 09:06:15 -07:00