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Junio C Hamano
e2a318f796 Merge branch 'jk/strbuf-doc-to-header'
The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in
the header file.  Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers
can check only one place for all necessary information.

* jk/strbuf-doc-to-header:
  strbuf.h: group documentation for trim functions
  strbuf.h: drop boilerplate descriptions of strbuf_split_*
  strbuf.h: reorganize api function grouping headers
  strbuf.h: format asciidoc code blocks as 4-space indent
  strbuf.h: drop asciidoc list formatting from API docs
  strbuf.h: unify documentation comments beginnings
  strbuf.h: integrate api-strbuf.txt documentation
2015-02-25 15:40:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
32464d36bf Merge branch 'jn/doc-api-errors'
The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in
the API manual.

* jn/doc-api-errors:
  doc: document error handling functions and conventions
2015-02-25 15:40:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
39fa6112ec Merge branch 'sb/atomic-push'
"git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to
update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair.

* sb/atomic-push:
  Document receive.advertiseatomic
  t5543-atomic-push.sh: add basic tests for atomic pushes
  push.c: add an --atomic argument
  send-pack.c: add --atomic command line argument
  send-pack: rename ref_update_to_be_sent to check_to_send_update
  receive-pack.c: negotiate atomic push support
  receive-pack.c: add execute_commands_atomic function
  receive-pack.c: move transaction handling in a central place
  receive-pack.c: move iterating over all commands outside execute_commands
  receive-pack.c: die instead of error in case of possible future bug
  receive-pack.c: shorten the execute_commands loop over all commands
2015-02-11 13:43:51 -08:00
Jeff King
bdfdaa4978 strbuf.h: integrate api-strbuf.txt documentation
Some of strbuf is documented as comments above functions,
and some is separate in Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt.
This makes it annoying to find the appropriate documentation.
We'd rather have it all in one place, which means all in the
text document, or all in the header.

Let's choose the header as that place. Even though the
formatting is not quite as pretty, this keeps the
documentation close to the related code.  The hope is that
this makes it easier to find what you want (human-readable
comments are right next to the C declarations), and easier
for writers to keep the documentation up to date.

This is more or less a straight import of the text from
api-strbuf.txt into C comments, complete with asciidoc
formatting. The exceptions are:

 1. All comments created in this way are started with "/**"
    to indicate they are part of the API documentation. This
    may help later with extracting the text to pretty-print
    it.

 2. Function descriptions do not repeat the function name,
    as it is available in the context directly below.  So:

      `strbuf_add`::

          Add data of given length to the buffer.

    from api-strbuf.txt becomes:

      /**
       * Add data of given length to the buffer.
       */
      void strbuf_add(struct strbuf *sb, const void *, size_t);

    As a result, any block-continuation required in asciidoc
    for that list item was dropped in favor of straight
    blank-line paragraph (since it is not necessary when we
    are not in a list item).

 3. There is minor re-wording to integrate existing comments
    and api-strbuf text. In each case, I took whichever
    version was more descriptive, and eliminated any
    redundancies. In one case, for strbuf_addstr, the api
    documentation gave its inline definition; I eliminated
    this as redundant with the actual definition, which can
    be seen directly below the comment.

 4. The functions in the header file are re-ordered to match
    the ordering of the API documentation, under the
    assumption that more thought went into the grouping
    there.

Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-16 14:40:46 -08:00
Ronnie Sahlberg
1b70fe5d30 receive-pack.c: negotiate atomic push support
This adds the atomic protocol option to allow
receive-pack to inform the client that it has
atomic push capability.

This commit makes the functionality introduced
in the previous commits go live for the serving
side. The changes in documentation reflect the
protocol capabilities of the server.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-07 19:56:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
63903d0e4e Merge branch 'nd/split-index'
A typofix to the documentation of a feature already in the release.

* nd/split-index:
  index-format.txt: add a missing closing quote
2014-12-22 12:28:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
86362f7205 Merge branch 'jk/credential-quit'
Credential helpers are asked in turn until one of them give
positive response, which is cumbersome to turn off when you need to
run Git in an automated setting.  The credential helper interface
learned to allow a helper to say "stop, don't ask other helpers."
Also GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT environment can be set to false to disable
our built-in prompt mechanism for passwords.

* jk/credential-quit:
  prompt: respect GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT to disable terminal prompts
  credential: let helpers tell us to quit
2014-12-22 12:27:20 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
f2667a8330 index-format.txt: add a missing closing quote
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-11 14:24:37 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
1f23cfe0ef doc: document error handling functions and conventions
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-04 15:27:47 -08:00
Jeff King
59b386526a credential: let helpers tell us to quit
When we are trying to fill a credential, we loop over the
set of defined credential-helpers, then fall back to running
askpass, and then finally prompt on the terminal. Helpers
which cannot find a credential are free to tell us nothing,
but they cannot currently ask us to stop prompting.

This patch lets them provide a "quit" attribute, which asks
us to stop the process entirely (avoiding running more
helpers, as well as the askpass/terminal prompt).

This has a few possible uses:

  1. A helper which prompts the user itself (e.g., in a
     dialog) can provide a "cancel" button to the user to
     stop further prompts.

  2. Some helpers may know that prompting cannot possibly
     work. For example, if their role is to broker a ticket
     from an external auth system and that auth system
     cannot be contacted, there is no point in continuing
     (we need a ticket to authenticate, and the user cannot
     provide one by typing it in).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-04 10:11:12 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
3383e19984 sort_string_list(): rename to string_list_sort()
The new name is more consistent with the names of other
string_list-related functions.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-25 10:11:34 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
f745acb028 Documentation: typofixes
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:

 - Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
 - Spell Linux as Capitalized;
 - Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-04 13:14:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
598d7eb160 Merge branch 'rs/child-process-init'
* rs/child-process-init:
  api-run-command: add missing list item marker
2014-10-31 11:49:49 -07:00
René Scharfe
96ef1bdc65 api-run-command: add missing list item marker
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-28 15:25:25 -07:00
René Scharfe
19a583dc39 run-command: add env_array, an optional argv_array for env
Similar to args, add a struct argv_array member to struct child_process
that simplifies specifying the environment for children.  It is freed
automatically by finish_command() or if start_command() encounters an
error.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-19 15:26:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
11cb3130d5 Merge branch 'mh/lockfile-stdio'
* mh/lockfile-stdio:
  commit_packed_refs(): reimplement using fdopen_lock_file()
  dump_marks(): reimplement using fdopen_lock_file()
  fdopen_lock_file(): access a lockfile using stdio
2014-10-14 10:49:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bd107e1052 Merge branch 'mh/lockfile'
The lockfile API and its users have been cleaned up.

* mh/lockfile: (38 commits)
  lockfile.h: extract new header file for the functions in lockfile.c
  hold_locked_index(): move from lockfile.c to read-cache.c
  hold_lock_file_for_append(): restore errno before returning
  get_locked_file_path(): new function
  lockfile.c: rename static functions
  lockfile: rename LOCK_NODEREF to LOCK_NO_DEREF
  commit_lock_file_to(): refactor a helper out of commit_lock_file()
  trim_last_path_component(): replace last_path_elm()
  resolve_symlink(): take a strbuf parameter
  resolve_symlink(): use a strbuf for internal scratch space
  lockfile: change lock_file::filename into a strbuf
  commit_lock_file(): use a strbuf to manage temporary space
  try_merge_strategy(): use a statically-allocated lock_file object
  try_merge_strategy(): remove redundant lock_file allocation
  struct lock_file: declare some fields volatile
  lockfile: avoid transitory invalid states
  git_config_set_multivar_in_file(): avoid call to rollback_lock_file()
  dump_marks(): remove a redundant call to rollback_lock_file()
  api-lockfile: document edge cases
  commit_lock_file(): rollback lock file on failure to rename
  ...
2014-10-14 10:49:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fb06b5280e Merge branch 'jc/push-cert'
Allow "git push" request to be signed, so that it can be verified and
audited, using the GPG signature of the person who pushed, that the
tips of branches at a public repository really point the commits
the pusher wanted to, without having to "trust" the server.

* jc/push-cert: (24 commits)
  receive-pack::hmac_sha1(): copy the entire SHA-1 hash out
  signed push: allow stale nonce in stateless mode
  signed push: teach smart-HTTP to pass "git push --signed" around
  signed push: fortify against replay attacks
  signed push: add "pushee" header to push certificate
  signed push: remove duplicated protocol info
  send-pack: send feature request on push-cert packet
  receive-pack: GPG-validate push certificates
  push: the beginning of "git push --signed"
  pack-protocol doc: typofix for PKT-LINE
  gpg-interface: move parse_signature() to where it should be
  gpg-interface: move parse_gpg_output() to where it should be
  send-pack: clarify that cmds_sent is a boolean
  send-pack: refactor inspecting and resetting status and sending commands
  send-pack: rename "new_refs" to "need_pack_data"
  receive-pack: factor out capability string generation
  send-pack: factor out capability string generation
  send-pack: always send capabilities
  send-pack: refactor decision to send update per ref
  send-pack: move REF_STATUS_REJECT_NODELETE logic a bit higher
  ...
2014-10-08 13:05:25 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
013870cd2c fdopen_lock_file(): access a lockfile using stdio
Add a new function, fdopen_lock_file(), which returns a FILE pointer
open to the lockfile. If a stream is open on a lock_file object, it is
closed using fclose() on commit, rollback, or close_lock_file().

This change will allow callers to use stdio to write to a lockfile
without having to muck around in the internal representation of the
lock_file object (callers will be rewritten in upcoming commits).

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 14:08:10 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
ec38b4e482 get_locked_file_path(): new function
Add a function to return the path of the file that is locked by a
lock_file object. This reduces the knowledge that callers have to have
about the lock_file layout.

Suggested-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 13:53:54 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
47ba4662bf lockfile: rename LOCK_NODEREF to LOCK_NO_DEREF
This makes it harder to misread the name as LOCK_NODE_REF.

Suggested-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 13:53:28 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
751bacedaa commit_lock_file_to(): refactor a helper out of commit_lock_file()
commit_locked_index(), when writing to an alternate index file,
duplicates (poorly) the code in commit_lock_file(). And anyway, it
shouldn't have to know so much about the internal workings of lockfile
objects. So extract a new function commit_lock_file_to() that does the
work common to the two functions, and call it from both
commit_lock_file() and commit_locked_index().

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 13:52:06 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
d75145acf6 api-lockfile: document edge cases
* Document the behavior of commit_lock_file() when it fails, namely
  that it rolls back the lock_file object and sets errno
  appropriately.

* Document the behavior of rollback_lock_file() when called for a
  lock_file object that has already been committed or rolled back,
  namely that it is a NOOP.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 13:45:14 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
8e86c155d2 close_lock_file(): if close fails, roll back
If closing an open lockfile fails, then we cannot be sure of the
contents of the lockfile, so there is nothing sensible to do but
delete it. This change also insures that the lock_file object is left
in a defined state in this error path (namely, unlocked).

The only caller that is ultimately affected by this change is
try_merge_strategy() -> write_locked_index(), which can call
close_lock_file() via various execution paths. This caller uses a
static lock_file object which previously could have been reused after
a failed close_lock_file() even though it was still in locked state.
This change causes the lock_file object to be unlocked on failure,
thus fixing this error-handling path.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 13:45:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
8a1c7533e2 commit_lock_file(): die() if called for unlocked lockfile object
It was previously a bug to call commit_lock_file() with a lock_file
object that was not active (an illegal access would happen within the
function).  It was presumably never done, but this would be an easy
programming error to overlook.  So before continuing, do a consistency
check that the lock_file object really is locked.

Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 13:45:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
a5e48669a2 api-lockfile: revise and expand the documentation
Document a couple more functions and the flags argument as used by
hold_lock_file_for_update() and hold_lock_file_for_append().
Reorganize the document to make it more accessible.

Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 13:38:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1c2ea2cdc0 Merge branch 'rs/realloc-array'
Code cleanup.

* rs/realloc-array:
  use REALLOC_ARRAY for changing the allocation size of arrays
  add macro REALLOC_ARRAY
2014-09-26 14:39:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f7153344cf Merge branch 'sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow' into maint
* sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow:
  Document LF appearing in shallow command during send-pack/receive-pack
2014-09-19 14:05:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
56feed1c76 Merge branch 'rs/export-strbuf-addchars'
Code clean-up.

* rs/export-strbuf-addchars:
  strbuf: use strbuf_addchars() for adding a char multiple times
  strbuf: export strbuf_addchars()
2014-09-19 11:38:39 -07:00
René Scharfe
3ac22f82ed add macro REALLOC_ARRAY
The macro ALLOC_GROW manages several aspects of dynamic memory
allocations for arrays: It performs overprovisioning in order to avoid
reallocations in future calls, updates the allocation size variable,
multiplies the item size and thus allows users to simply specify the
item count, performs the reallocation and updates the array pointer.

Sometimes this is too much.  Add the macro REALLOC_ARRAY, which only
takes care of the latter three points and allows users to specfiy the
number of items the array can store.  It can increase and also decrease
the size.  Using the macro avoid duplicating the variable name and
takes care of the item sizes automatically.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-18 09:13:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b89363e4a5 signed push: fortify against replay attacks
In order to prevent a valid push certificate for pushing into an
repository from getting replayed in a different push operation, send
a nonce string from the receive-pack process and have the signer
include it in the push certificate.  The receiving end uses an HMAC
hash of the path to the repository it serves and the current time
stamp, hashed with a secret seed (the secret seed does not have to
be per-repository but can be defined in /etc/gitconfig) to generate
the nonce, in order to ensure that a random third party cannot forge
a nonce that looks like it originated from it.

The original nonce is exported as GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE for the hooks
to examine and match against the value on the "nonce" header in the
certificate to notice a replay, but returned "nonce" header in the
push certificate is examined by receive-pack and the result is
exported as GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS, whose value would be "OK"
if the nonce recorded in the certificate matches what we expect, so
that the hooks can more easily check.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-17 14:27:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9be89160e7 signed push: add "pushee" header to push certificate
Record the URL of the intended recipient for a push (after
anonymizing it if it has authentication material) on a new "pushee
URL" header.  Because the networking configuration (SSH-tunnels,
proxies, etc.) on the pushing user's side varies, the receiving
repository may not know the single canonical URL all the pushing
users would refer it as (besides, many sites allow pushing over
ssh://host/path and https://host/path protocols to the same
repository but with different local part of the path).  So this
value may not be reliably used for replay-attack prevention
purposes, but this will still serve as a human readable hint to
identify the repository the certificate refers to.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-15 13:23:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4adf569dea signed push: remove duplicated protocol info
With the interim protocol, we used to send the update commands even
though we already send a signed copy of the same information when
push certificate is in use.  Update the send-pack/receive-pack pair
not to do so.

The notable thing on the receive-pack side is that it makes sure
that there is no command sent over the traditional protocol packet
outside the push certificate.  Otherwise a pusher can claim to be
pushing one set of ref updates in the signed certificate while
issuing commands to update unrelated refs, and such an update will
evade later audits.

Finally, start documenting the protocol.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-15 13:23:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e543b3f6fe pack-protocol doc: typofix for PKT-LINE
Everywhere else we use PKT-LINE to denote the pkt-line formatted
data, but "shallow/deepen" messages are described with PKT_LINE().

Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-15 13:23:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
825fd93767 Merge branch 'rs/child-process-init'
Code clean-up.

* rs/child-process-init:
  run-command: inline prepare_run_command_v_opt()
  run-command: call run_command_v_opt_cd_env() instead of duplicating it
  run-command: introduce child_process_init()
  run-command: introduce CHILD_PROCESS_INIT
2014-09-11 10:33:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7f346e9d73 Merge branch 'ta/config-set-1'
Use the new caching config-set API in git_config() calls.

* ta/config-set-1:
  add tests for `git_config_get_string_const()`
  add a test for semantic errors in config files
  rewrite git_config() to use the config-set API
  config: add `git_die_config()` to the config-set API
  change `git_config()` return value to void
  add line number and file name info to `config_set`
  config.c: fix accuracy of line number in errors
  config.c: mark error and warnings strings for translation
2014-09-11 10:33:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
346fad5bb3 Merge branch 'sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow'
* sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow:
  Document LF appearing in shallow command during send-pack/receive-pack
2014-09-09 12:54:09 -07:00
René Scharfe
d07235a027 strbuf: export strbuf_addchars()
Move strbuf_addchars() to strbuf.c, where it belongs, and make it
available for other callers.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-08 11:26:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f655651e09 Merge branch 'rs/strbuf-getcwd'
Reduce the use of fixed sized buffer passed to getcwd() calls
by introducing xgetcwd() helper.

* rs/strbuf-getcwd:
  use strbuf_add_absolute_path() to add absolute paths
  abspath: convert absolute_path() to strbuf
  use xgetcwd() to set $GIT_DIR
  use xgetcwd() to get the current directory or die
  wrapper: add xgetcwd()
  abspath: convert real_path_internal() to strbuf
  abspath: use strbuf_getcwd() to remember original working directory
  setup: convert setup_git_directory_gently_1 et al. to strbuf
  unix-sockets: use strbuf_getcwd()
  strbuf: add strbuf_getcwd()
2014-09-02 13:28:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
56f214e071 Merge branch 'ta/config-set'
Add in-core caching layer to let us avoid reading the same
configuration files number of times.

* ta/config-set:
  test-config: add tests for the config_set API
  add `config_set` API for caching config-like files
2014-09-02 13:24:18 -07:00
Shawn Pearce
5d146f7a0f Document LF appearing in shallow command during send-pack/receive-pack
The implementation sends an LF, but the protocol documentation was
missing this detail.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-28 15:13:55 -07:00
René Scharfe
679eebe24d abspath: convert absolute_path() to strbuf
Move most of the code of absolute_path() into the new function
strbuf_add_absolute_path() and in the process transform it to use
struct strbuf and xgetcwd() instead of a PATH_MAX-sized buffer,
which can be too small on some file systems.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-26 11:06:06 -07:00
René Scharfe
483bbd4e4c run-command: introduce child_process_init()
Add a helper function for initializing those struct child_process
variables for which the macro CHILD_PROCESS_INIT can't be used.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-20 09:54:58 -07:00
René Scharfe
d318027932 run-command: introduce CHILD_PROCESS_INIT
Most struct child_process variables are cleared using memset first after
declaration.  Provide a macro, CHILD_PROCESS_INIT, that can be used to
initialize them statically instead.  That's shorter, doesn't require a
function call and is slightly more readable (especially given that we
already have STRBUF_INIT, ARGV_ARRAY_INIT etc.).

Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-20 09:53:37 -07:00
Tanay Abhra
5a80e97c82 config: add git_die_config() to the config-set API
Add `git_die_config` that dies printing the line number and the file name
of the highest priority value for the configuration variable `key`. A custom
error message is also printed before dying, specified by the caller, which can
be skipped if `err` argument is set to NULL.

It has usage in non-callback based config value retrieval where we can
raise an error and die if there is a semantic error.
For example,

	if (!git_config_get_value(key, &value)){
		if (!strcmp(value, "foo"))
			git_config_die(key, "value: `%s` is illegal", value);
		else
			/* do work */
	}

Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-07 11:40:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
18bd789a18 Merge branch 'ta/doc-config'
* ta/doc-config:
  add documentation for writing config files
2014-08-04 14:03:25 -07:00
Tanay Abhra
97d6e799aa add documentation for writing config files
Replace TODO introduced in commit 9c3c22 with documentation
explaining Git config API functions for writing configuration
files.

Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-30 12:16:07 -07:00
Tanay Abhra
3c8687a73e add config_set API for caching config-like files
Currently `git_config()` uses a callback mechanism and file rereads for
config values. Due to this approach, it is not uncommon for the config
files to be parsed several times during the run of a git program, with
different callbacks picking out different variables useful to themselves.

Add a `config_set`, that can be used to construct an in-memory cache for
config-like files that the caller specifies (i.e., files like `.gitmodules`,
`~/.gitconfig` etc.). Add two external functions `git_configset_get_value`
and `git_configset_get_value_multi` for querying from the config sets.
`git_configset_get_value` follows `last one wins` semantic (i.e. if there
are multiple matches for the queried key in the files of the configset the
value returned will be the last entry in `value_list`).
`git_configset_get_value_multi` returns a list of values sorted in order of
increasing priority (i.e. last match will be at the end of the list). Add
type specific query functions like `git_configset_get_bool` and similar.

Add a default `config_set`, `the_config_set` to cache all key-value pairs
read from usual config files (repo specific .git/config, user wide
~/.gitconfig, XDG config and the global /etc/gitconfig). `the_config_set`
is populated using `git_config()`.

Add two external functions `git_config_get_value` and
`git_config_get_value_multi` for querying in a non-callback manner from
`the_config_set`. Also, add type specific query functions that are
implemented as a thin wrapper around the `config_set` API.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-29 14:29:56 -07:00
René Scharfe
f22a76e911 strbuf: add strbuf_getcwd()
Add strbuf_getcwd(), which puts the current working directory into a
strbuf.  Because it doesn't use a fixed-size buffer it supports
arbitrarily long paths, provided the platform's getcwd() does as well.
At least on Linux and FreeBSD it handles paths longer than PATH_MAX
just fine.

Suggested-by: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-28 13:48:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
955d7be808 Merge branch 'ta/string-list-init'
* ta/string-list-init:
  replace memset with string-list initializers
  string-list: add string_list initializer helper function
2014-07-23 11:35:54 -07:00