Improve error and advice messages given locally when "git push"
refuses when it cannot compute fast-forwardness by separating these
cases from the normal "not a fast-forward; merge first and push
again" case.
* jc/push-reject-reasons:
push: finishing touches to explain REJECT_ALREADY_EXISTS better
push: introduce REJECT_FETCH_FIRST and REJECT_NEEDS_FORCE
push: further simplify the logic to assign rejection reason
push: further clean up fields of "struct ref"
Configuration parsing for tar.* configuration variables were
broken. Introduce a new config-keyname parser API to make the
callers much less error prone.
* jk/config-parsing-cleanup:
reflog: use parse_config_key in config callback
help: use parse_config_key for man config
submodule: simplify memory handling in config parsing
submodule: use parse_config_key when parsing config
userdiff: drop parse_driver function
convert some config callbacks to parse_config_key
archive-tar: use parse_config_key when parsing config
config: add helper function for parsing key names
Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the
character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from
the default '#'.
* jc/custom-comment-char:
Allow custom "comment char"
Some reimplementations of Git does not write all the stat info back
to the index due to their implementation limitations (e.g. jgit
running on Java). A configuration option can tell Git to ignore
changes to most of the stat fields and only pay attention to mtime
and size, which these implementations can reliably update. This
avoids excessive revalidation of contents.
* rr/minimal-stat:
Enable minimal stat checking
When we push to update an existing ref, if:
* the object at the tip of the remote is not a commit; or
* the object we are pushing is not a commit,
it won't be correct to suggest to fetch, integrate and push again,
as the old and new objects will not "merge". We should explain that
the push must be forced when there is a non-committish object is
involved in such a case.
If we do not have the current object at the tip of the remote, we do
not even know that object, when fetched, is something that can be
merged. In such a case, suggesting to pull first just like
non-fast-forward case may not be technically correct, but in
practice, most such failures are seen when you try to push your work
to a branch without knowing that somebody else already pushed to
update the same branch since you forked, so "pull first" would work
as a suggestion most of the time. And if the object at the tip is
not a commit, "pull first" will fail, without making any permanent
damage. As a side effect, it also makes the error message the user
will get during the next "push" attempt easier to understand, now
the user is aware that a non-commit object is involved.
In these cases, the current code already rejects such a push on the
client end, but we used the same error and advice messages as the
ones used when rejecting a non-fast-forward push, i.e. pull from
there and integrate before pushing again.
Introduce new rejection reasons and reword the messages
appropriately.
[jc: with help by Peff on message details]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "nonfastforward" and "update" fields are only used while
deciding what value to assign to the "status" locally in a single
function. Remove them from the "struct ref".
The "requires_force" field is not used to decide if the proposed
update requires a --force option to succeed, or to record such a
decision made elsewhere. It is used by status reporting code that
the particular update was "forced". Rename it to "forced_update",
and move the code to assign to it around to further clarify how it
is used and what it is used for.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Regression fix to stop "git push" complaining "target ref already
exists", when it is not the real reason the command rejected the
request (e.g. non-fast-forward).
* cr/push-force-tag-update:
push: fix "refs/tags/ hierarchy cannot be updated without --force"
The config callback functions get keys of the general form:
section.subsection.key
(where the subsection may be contain arbitrary data, or may
be missing). For matching keys without subsections, it is
simple enough to call "strcmp". Matching keys with
subsections is a little more complicated, and each callback
does it in an ad-hoc way, usually involving error-prone
pointer arithmetic.
Let's provide a helper that keeps the pointer arithmetic all
in one place.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Specifically the fields uid, gid, ctime, ino and dev are set to zero
by JGit. Other implementations, eg. Git in cygwin are allegedly also
somewhat incompatible with Git For Windows and on *nix platforms
the resolution of the timestamps may differ.
Any stat checking by git will then need to check content, which may
be very slow, particularly on Windows. Since mtime and size
is typically enough we should allow the user to tell git to avoid
checking these fields if they are set to zero in the index.
This change introduces a core.checkstat config option where the
the user can select to check all fields (default), or just size
and the whole second part of mtime (minimal).
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When pushing to update a branch with a commit that is not a
descendant of the commit at the tip, a wrong message "already
exists" was given, instead of the correct "non-fast-forward", if we
do not have the object sitting in the destination repository at the
tip of the ref we are updating.
The primary cause of the bug is that the check in a new helper
function is_forwardable() assumed both old and new objects are
available and can be checked, which is not always the case.
The way the caller uses the result of this function is also wrong.
If the helper says "we do not want to let this push go through", the
caller unconditionally translates it into "we blocked it because the
destination already exists", which is not true at all in this case.
Fix this by doing these three things:
* Remove unnecessary not_forwardable from "struct ref"; it is only
used inside set_ref_status_for_push();
* Make "refs/tags/" the only hierarchy that cannot be replaced
without --force;
* Remove the misguided attempt to force that everything that
updates an existing ref has to be a commit outside "refs/tags/"
hierarchy.
The policy last one tried to implement may later be resurrected and
extended to ensure fast-forwardness (defined as "not losing
objects", extending from the traditional "not losing commits from
the resulting history") when objects that are not commit are
involved (e.g. an annotated tag in hierarchies outside refs/tags),
but such a logic belongs to "is this a fast-forward?" check that is
done by ref_newer(); is_forwardable(), which is now removed, was not
the right place to do so.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some users do want to write a line that begin with a pound sign, #,
in their commit log message. Many tracking system recognise
a token of #<bugid> form, for example.
The support we offer these use cases is not very friendly to the end
users. They have a choice between
- Don't do it. Avoid such a line by rewrapping or indenting; and
- Use --cleanup=whitespace but remove all the hint lines we add.
Give them a way to set a custom comment char, e.g.
$ git -c core.commentchar="%" commit
so that they do not have to do either of the two workarounds.
[jc: although I started the topic, all the tests and documentation
updates, many of the call sites of the new strbuf_add_commented_*()
functions, and the change to git-submodule.sh scripted Porcelain are
from Ralf.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a469a10 wraps some error calls in macros to give the
compiler a chance to do more static analysis on their
constant -1 return value. We limit the use of these macros
to __GNUC__, since gcc is the primary beneficiary of the new
information, and because we use GNU features for handling
variadic macros.
However, clang also defines __GNUC__, but generates warnings
with -Wunused-value when these macros are used in a void
context, because the constant "-1" ends up being useless.
Gcc does not complain about this case (though it is unclear
if it is because it is smart enough to see what we are
doing, or too dumb to realize that the -1 is unused). We
can squelch the warning by just disabling these macros when
clang is in use.
Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow scripts to feed literal paths to commands that take
pathspecs, by disabling wildcard globbing.
* jk/pathspec-literal:
add global --literal-pathspecs option
Conflicts:
dir.c
Help compilers' flow analysis by making it more explicit that
error() always returns -1, to reduce false "variable used
uninitialized" warnings. Looks somewhat ugly but not too much.
* jk/error-const-return:
silence some -Wuninitialized false positives
make error()'s constant return value more visible
Allow us to read, and default to read, mailmap files from the tip
of the history in bare repositories. This will help running tools
like shortlog in server settings.
* jk/mailmap-from-blob:
mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare repositories
mailmap: fix some documentation loose-ends for mailmap.blob
mailmap: clean up read_mailmap error handling
mailmap: support reading mailmap from blobs
mailmap: refactor mailmap parsing for non-file sources
Require "-f" for push to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward.
* cr/push-force-tag-update:
push: allow already-exists advice to be disabled
push: rename config variable for more general use
push: cleanup push rules comment
push: clarify rejection of update to non-commit-ish
push: require force for annotated tags
push: require force for refs under refs/tags/
push: flag updates that require force
push: keep track of "update" state separately
push: add advice for rejected tag reference
push: return reject reasons as a bitset
Optimize matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain
wildcard characters.
* nd/pathspec-wildcard:
tree_entry_interesting: do basedir compare on wildcard patterns when possible
pathspec: apply "*.c" optimization from exclude
pathspec: do exact comparison on the leading non-wildcard part
pathspec: save the non-wildcard length part
An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
* mh/ceiling:
string_list_longest_prefix(): remove function
setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks in ceiling paths
longest_ancestor_length(): require prefix list entries to be normalized
longest_ancestor_length(): take a string_list argument for prefixes
longest_ancestor_length(): use string_list_split()
Introduce new function real_path_if_valid()
real_path_internal(): add comment explaining use of cwd
Introduce new static function real_path_internal()
Git takes pathspec arguments in many places to limit the
scope of an operation. These pathspecs are treated not as
literal paths, but as glob patterns that can be fed to
fnmatch. When a user is giving a specific pattern, this is a
nice feature.
However, when programatically providing pathspecs, it can be
a nuisance. For example, to find the latest revision which
modified "$foo", one can use "git rev-list -- $foo". But if
"$foo" contains glob characters (e.g., "f*"), it will
erroneously match more entries than desired. The caller
needs to quote the characters in $foo, and even then, the
results may not be exactly the same as with a literal
pathspec. For instance, the depth checks in
match_pathspec_depth do not kick in if we match via fnmatch.
This patch introduces a global command-line option (i.e.,
one for "git" itself, not for specific commands) to turn
this behavior off. It also has a matching environment
variable, which can make it easier if you are a script or
porcelain interface that is going to issue many such
commands.
This option cannot turn off globbing for particular
pathspecs. That could eventually be done with a ":(noglob)"
magic pathspec prefix. However, that level of granularity is
more cumbersome to use for many cases, and doing ":(noglob)"
right would mean converting the whole codebase to use
"struct pathspec", as the usual "const char **pathspec"
cannot represent extra per-item flags.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a few error functions that simply wrap error() and
provide a standardized message text. Like error(), they
always return -1; knowing that can help the compiler silence
some false positive -Wuninitialized warnings.
One strategy would be to just declare these as inline in the
header file so that the compiler can see that they always
return -1. However, gcc does not always inline them (e.g.,
it will not inline opterror, even with -O3), which renders
our change pointless.
Instead, let's follow the same route we did with error() in
the last patch, and define a macro that makes the constant
return value obvious to the compiler.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a bare repository, there isn't a simple way to respect an
in-tree mailmap without extracting it to a temporary file.
This patch provides a config variable, similar to
mailmap.file, which reads the mailmap from a blob in the
repository.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
References are allowed to update from one commit-ish to another if the
former is an ancestor of the latter. This behavior is oriented to
branches which are expected to move with commits. Tag references are
expected to be static in a repository, though, thus an update to
something under refs/tags/ should be rejected unless the update is
forced.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a flag for indicating an update to a reference requires force.
Currently the `nonfastforward` flag is used for this when generating the
status message. A separate flag insulates dependent logic from the
details of set_ref_status_for_push().
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the reference exists on the remote and it is not being removed, then
mark as an update. This is in preparation for handling tags (lightweight
and annotated) exceptionally.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Advising the user to fetch and merge only makes sense if the rejected
reference is a branch. If none of the rejections are for branches, just
tell the user the reference already exists.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a pattern contains only a single asterisk as wildcard,
e.g. "foo*bar", after literally comparing the leading part "foo" with
the string, we can compare the tail of the string and make sure it
matches "bar", instead of running fnmatch() on "*bar" against the
remainder of the string.
-O2 build on linux-2.6, without the patch:
$ time git rev-list --quiet HEAD -- '*.c'
real 0m40.770s
user 0m40.290s
sys 0m0.256s
With the patch
$ time ~/w/git/git rev-list --quiet HEAD -- '*.c'
real 0m34.288s
user 0m33.997s
sys 0m0.205s
The above command is not supposed to be widely popular. It's chosen
because it exercises pathspec matching a lot. The point is it cuts
down matching time for popular patterns like *.c, which could be used
as pathspec in other places.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We mark pathspec with wildcards with the field use_wildcard. We
could do better by saving the length of the non-wildcard part, which
can be used for optimizations such as f9f6e2c (exclude: do strcmp as
much as possible before fnmatch - 2012-06-07).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We keep track of whether the user ident was given to us
explicitly, or if we guessed at it from system parameters
like username and hostname. However, we kept only a single
variable. This covers the common cases (because the author
and committer will usually come from the same explicit
source), but can miss two cases:
1. GIT_COMMITTER_* is set explicitly, but we fallback for
GIT_AUTHOR. We claim the ident is explicit, even though
the author is not.
2. GIT_AUTHOR_* is set and we ask for author ident, but
not committer ident. We will claim the ident is
implicit, even though it is explicit.
This patch uses two variables instead of one, updates both
when we set the "fallback" values, and updates them
individually when we read from the environment.
Rather than keep user_ident_sufficiently_given as a
compatibility wrapper, we update the only two callers to
check the committer_ident, which matches their intent and
what was happening already.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In v1.5.6-rc0~56^2 (2008-05-04) "user_ident_explicitly_given"
was introduced as a global for communication between config,
ident, and builtin-commit. In v1.7.0-rc0~72^2 (2010-01-07)
readers switched to using the common wrapper
user_ident_sufficiently_given(). After v1.7.11-rc1~15^2~18
(2012-05-21), the var is only written in ident.c.
Now we can make it static, which will enable further
refactoring without worrying about upsetting other code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is used by diff-no-index.c, part of libgit.a while it stays in
builtin/diff.c. Move it to diff.c so that we won't get undefined
reference if a program that uses libgit.a happens to pull it in.
While at it, move check_pager from git.c to pager.c. It makes more
sense there and pager.c is also part of libgit.a
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
These functions are called in sequencer.c, which is part of
libgit.a. This makes libgit.a potentially require builtin/merge.c for
external git commands.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Change longest_ancestor_length() to take the prefixes argument as a
string_list rather than as a colon-separated string. This will make
it easier for the caller to alter the entries before calling
longest_ancestor_length().
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The function is like real_path(), except that it returns NULL on error
instead of dying.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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
Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack did
not advertise that they are available. Fix fetch-pack not to do so.
* jc/capabilities:
fetch-pack: mention server version with verbose output
parse_feature_request: make it easier to see feature values
fetch-pack: do not ask for unadvertised capabilities
do not send client agent unless server does first
send-pack: fix capability-sending logic
include agent identifier in capability string
We already take care to parse key/value capabilities like
"foo=bar", but the code does not provide a good way of
actually finding out what is on the right-hand side of the
"=".
A server using "parse_feature_request" could accomplish this
with some extra parsing. You must skip past the "key"
portion manually, check for "=" versus NUL or space, and
then find the length by searching for the next space (or
NUL). But clients can't even do that, since the
"server_supports" interface does not even return the
pointer.
Instead, let's have our parser share more information by
providing a pointer to the value and its length. The
"parse_feature_value" function returns a pointer to the
feature's value portion, along with the length of the value.
If the feature is missing, NULL is returned. If it does not
have an "=", then a zero-length value is returned.
Similarly, "server_feature_value" behaves in the same way,
but always checks the static server_feature_list variable.
We can then implement "server_supports" in terms of
"server_feature_value". We cannot implement the original
"parse_feature_request" in terms of our new function,
because it returned a pointer to the beginning of the
feature. However, no callers actually cared about the value
of the returned pointer, so we can simplify it to a boolean
just as we do for "server_supports".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Split lower bits of ce_flags field and creates a new ce_namelen
field in the in-core index structure.
* tg/ce-namelen-field:
Strip namelen out of ce_flags into a ce_namelen field
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output
is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish,
and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to
prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
* jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits)
t1512: match the "other" object names
t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output
rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix>
rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish
reset: the command takes committish
commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits
apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs
sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types
revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish
revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags
sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish()
sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context()
sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish
sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags
sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits
sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option
sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags
get_sha1(): fix error status regression
sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names
sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res"
...
Teaches git to normalize pathnames read from readdir(3) and all
arguments from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming
that they come as decomposed UTF-8) to work around issues on Mac OS.
I think there still are other places that need conversion
(e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
should be a good first step in the right direction.
* tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname:
git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode
Strip the name length from the ce_flags field and move it
into its own ce_namelen field in struct cache_entry. This
will both give us a tiny bit of a performance enhancement
when working with long pathnames and is a refactoring for
more readability of the code.
It enhances readability, by making it more clear what
is a flag, and where the length is stored and make it clear
which functions use stages in comparisions and which only
use the length.
It also makes CE_NAMEMASK private, so that users don't
mistakenly write the name length in the flags.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new option allows you to feed an ambiguous prefix and enumerate
all the objects that share it as a prefix of their object names.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches the revision parser that in "$name:$path" (used for a
blob object name), "$name" must be a tree-ish.
There are many more places where we know what types of objects are
called for. This patch adds support for "commit", "treeish", "tree",
and "blob", which could be used in the following contexts:
- "git apply --build-fake-ancestor" reads the "index" lines from
the patch; they must name blob objects (not even "blob-ish");
- "git commit-tree" reads a tree object name (not "tree-ish"), and
zero or more commit object names (not "committish");
- "git reset $rev" wants a committish; "git reset $rev -- $path"
wants a treeish.
They will come in later patches in the series.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many callers know that the user meant to name a committish by
syntactical positions where the object name appears. Calling this
function allows the machinery to disambiguate shorter-than-unique
abbreviated object names between committish and others.
Note that this does NOT error out when the named object is not a
committish. It is merely to give a hint to the disambiguation
machinery.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function takes user input string and returns the object name
(binary SHA-1) with mode bits and path when the object was looked
up in a tree.
Additionally give hints to help disambiguation of abbreviated object
names when the caller knows what it is looking for.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
