Elijah Newren [Thu, 6 Mar 2025 15:30:27 +0000 (15:30 +0000)]
merge-ort: fix slightly overzealous assertion for rename-to-self
merge-ort has a number of sanity checks on the file it is processing in
process_renames(). One of these sanity checks was slightly overzealous
because it indirectly assumed that a renamed file always ended up at a
different path than where it started. That is normally an entirely fair
assumption, but directory rename detection can make things interesting.
As a quick refresher, if one side of history renames directory A/ -> B/,
and the other side of history adds new files to A/, then directory
rename detection notices and suggests moving those new files to B/. A
similar thing is done for paths renamed into A/, causing them to be
transitively renamed into B/. But, if the file originally came from B/,
then this can end up causing a file to be renamed back to itself.
It turns out the rest of the code following this assertion handled the
case fine; the assertion was just an extra sanity check, not a rigid
precondition. Therefore, simply adjust the assertion to pass under this
special case as well.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t6423: add a testcase causing a failed assertion in process_renames
If one side of history renames a directory A/ -> B/, and the other side
of history adds new files to A/, then directory rename detection notices
and moves or suggests moving those new files to B/. A similar thing is
done for paths renamed into A/, causing them to be transitively renamed
into B/. But, if the file originally came from B/, then this can end up
causing a file to be renamed back to itself. merge-ort crashes under
this special case, due to a slightly overzealous assertion:
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov@users.sf.net>
[en: Instead of adding a new testsuite, place it near similar tests in
t6423, adjusting to match the style of those tests. Tweak the commit
message to not repeat the entire testcase, but just describe the bug.
Also update the line number in the error message.] Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Taylor Blau [Thu, 6 Mar 2025 15:34:53 +0000 (10:34 -0500)]
refs.c: stop matching non-directory prefixes in exclude patterns
In the packed-refs backend, our implementation of '--exclude' (dating
back to 59c35fac54 (refs/packed-backend.c: implement jump lists to avoid
excluded pattern(s), 2023-07-10)) considers, for example:
$ git for-each-ref --exclude=refs/heads/ba
to exclude "refs/heads/bar", "refs/heads/baz", and so on.
The files backend, which does not implement '--exclude' (and relies on
the caller to cull out results that don't match) naturally will
enumerate "refs/heads/bar" and so on.
So in the above example, 'for-each-ref' will try and see if
"refs/heads/ba" matches "refs/heads/bar" (since the files backend simply
enumerated every loose reference), and, realizing that it does not
match, output the reference as expected. (A caller that did want to
exclude "refs/heads/bar" and "refs/heads/baz" might instead run "git
for-each-ref --exclude='refs/heads/ba*'").
This can lead to strange behavior, like seeing a different set of
references advertised via 'upload-pack' depending on what set of
references were loose versus packed.
So there is a subtle bug with '--exclude' which is that in the
packed-refs backend we will consider "refs/heads/bar" to be a pattern
match against "refs/heads/ba" when we shouldn't. Likewise, the reftable
backend (which in this case is bug-compatible with the packed backend)
exhibits the same broken behavior.
There are a few ways to fix this. One is to tighten the rules in
cmp_record_to_refname(), which is used to determine the start/end-points
of the jump list used by the packed backend. In this new "strict" mode,
the comparison function would handle the case where we've reached the
end of the pattern by introducing a new check like so:
while (1) {
if (*r1 == '\n')
return *r2 ? -1 : 0;
if (!*r2)
if (strict && *r1 != '/') /* <- here */
return 1;
return start ? 1 : -1;
if (*r1 != *r2)
return (unsigned char)*r1 < (unsigned char)*r2 ? -1 : +1;
r1++;
r2++;
}
(eliding out the rest of cmp_record_to_refname()). Equivalently, we
could teach refs/packed-backend::populate_excluded_jump_list() to append
a trailing '/' if one does not already exist, forcing an exclude pattern
like "refs/heads/ba" to only match "refs/heads/ba/abc" and so forth.
But since the same problem exists in reftable, we can fix both at once
by performing this pre-processing step one layer up in refs.c at the
common entrypoint for the two, which is 'refs_ref_iterator_begin()'.
Since that solution is both the simplest and only requires modification
in one spot, let's normalize exclude patterns so that they end with a
trailing slash. This causes us to unify the behavior between all three
backends.
There is some minor test fallout in the "overlapping excluded regions"
test, which happens to use 'refs/ba' as an exclude pattern, and expects
references under the "refs/heads/bar/*" and "refs/heads/baz/*"
hierarchies to be excluded from the results.
But that test fallout is expected, because the test was codifying the
buggy behavior to begin with, and should have never been written that
way. Split that into its own test (since the range is no longer
overlapping under the stricter interpretation of --exclude patterns
presented here). Create a new test which does have overlapping
regions by using a refs/heads/bar/4/... hierarchy and excluding both
"refs/heads/bar" and "refs/heads/bar/4".
Reported-by: SURA <surak8806@gmail.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Taylor Blau [Thu, 6 Mar 2025 15:34:48 +0000 (10:34 -0500)]
refs.c: remove empty '--exclude' patterns
In 59c35fac54 (refs/packed-backend.c: implement jump lists to avoid
excluded pattern(s), 2023-07-10), the packed-refs backend learned how to
construct "jump lists" to avoid enumerating sections of the packed-refs
file that we know the caller is going to throw out anyway.
This process works by finding the start- and end-points (that is, where
in the packed-refs file corresponds to the range we're going to ignore)
for each exclude pattern, then constructing a jump list based on that.
At enumeration time we'll consult the jump list to skip past everything
in the range(s) found in the previous step, saving time when excluding a
large portion of references.
But when there is a --exclude pattern which is just the empty string,
the behavior is a little funky. When we try and exclude the empty
string, the matched range covers the entire packed-refs file, meaning
that we won't output any packed references. But the empty pattern
doesn't actually match any references to begin with! For example, on my
copy of git.git I can do:
$ git for-each-ref '' | wc -l
0
So "git for-each-ref --exclude=''" shouldn't actually remove anything
from the output, and ought to be equivalent to "git for-each-ref". But
it's not, and in fact:
But why does the '--exclude' version output only some of the references
in the repository? Here's a hint:
$ find .git/refs -type f | wc -l
480
Indeed, because the files backend doesn't implement[^1] the same jump
list concept as the packed backend we get the correct result for the
loose references, but none of the packed references.
Since the empty string exclude pattern doesn't match anything, we can
discard them before the packed-refs backend has a chance to even see it
(and likewise for reftable, which also implements a similar concept
since 1869525066 (refs/reftable: wire up support for exclude patterns,
2024-09-16)).
This approach (copying only some of the patterns into a strvec at the
refs.c layer) may seem heavy-handed, but it's setting us up to fix
another bug in the following commit where the fix will involve modifying
the incoming patterns.
[^1]: As noted in 59c35fac54. We technically could avoid opening and
enumerating the contents of, for e.g., "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/foo/" if
we knew that we were excluding anything under the 'refs/heads/foo'
hierarchy. But the --exclude stuff is all best-effort anyway, since
the caller is expected to cull out any results that they don't want.
Noticed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
cmake: generalize the handling of the `CLAR_TEST_OBJS` list
A late-comer to the v2.49.0 party, `sk/unit-test-oid`, added yet another
array item to `CLAR_TEST_OBJS`, causing the `win+VS build` job to fail
with symptoms like this one:
unit-tests-lib.lib(u-oid-array.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved
external symbol cl_parse_any_oid referenced in function fill_array
This is a similar scenario to the one that forced me to write 8afda42fce60 (cmake: generalize the handling of the `UNIT_TEST_OBJS`
list, 2024-09-18): The hard-coded echo of `CLAR_TEST_OBJS` in
`CMakeLists.txt` that recapitulates faithfully what was already
hard-coded in `Makefile` would either have to be updated whack-a-mole
style, or generalized.
Just like I chose the latter option for `UNIT_TEST_OBJS`, I now do the
same for `CLAR_TEST_OBJS`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 904339edbd80 (Introduce support for the Meson build system,
2024-12-06) the `meson.build` file was introduced, adding also a
Windows-specific list of source files. This list was obviously meant to
be sorted alphabetically, but there is one mistake. Let's fix that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 590e081dea7c (ident: add NO_GECOS_IN_PWENT for systems without
pw_gecos in struct passwd, 2011-05-19), code was introduced to iterate
over the `gw_gecos` field; The loop variable is of type `char *`, which
assumes that `gw_gecos` is writable.
However, it is not necessarily writable (and it is a bad idea to have it
writable in the first place), so let's switch the loop variable type to
`const char *`.
This is not a new problem, but what is new is the Meson build. While it
does not trigger in CI builds, imitating the commands of
`ci/run-build-and-tests.sh` in a regular Git for Windows SDK (`meson
setup build . --fatal-meson-warnings --warnlevel 2 --werror --wrap-mode
nofallback -Dfuzzers=true` followed by `meson compile -C build --`
results in this beautiful error:
"cc" [...] -o libgit.a.p/ident.c.obj "-c" ../ident.c
../ident.c: In function 'copy_gecos':
../ident.c:68:18: error: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
68 | for (src = get_gecos(w); *src && *src != ','; src++) {
| ^
cc1.exe: all warnings being treated as errors
Now, why does this not trigger in CI? The answer is as simple as it is
puzzling: The `win+Meson` job completely side-steps Git for Windows'
development environment, opting instead to use the GCC that is on the
`PATH` in GitHub-hosted `windows-latest` runners. That GCC is pinned to
v12.2.0 and targets the UCRT (unlikely to change any time soon, see
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/win25/20250303.1/images/windows/toolsets/toolset-2022.json#L132-L141).
That is in stark contrast to Git for Windows, which uses GCC v14.2.0 and
targets MSVCRT. Git for Windows' `Makefile`-based build also obviously
uses different compiler flags, otherwise this compile error would have
had plenty of opportunity in almost 14 years to surface.
In other words, contrary to my expectations, the `win+Meson` job is
ill-equipped to replace the `win build` job because it exercises a
completely different tool version/compiler flags vector than what Git
for Windows needs.
Nevertheless, there is currently this huge push, including breaking
changes after -rc1 and all, for switching to Meson. Therefore, we need
to make it work, somehow, even in Git for Windows' SDK, hence this
patch, at this point in time.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:37:44 +0000 (10:37 -0800)]
Merge branch 'cc/lop-remote'
Large-object promisor protocol extension.
* cc/lop-remote:
doc: add technical design doc for large object promisors
promisor-remote: check advertised name or URL
Add 'promisor-remote' capability to protocol v2
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:37:43 +0000 (10:37 -0800)]
Merge branch 'sk/unit-test-oid'
Convert a few unit tests to the clar framework.
* sk/unit-test-oid:
t/unit-tests: convert oidtree test to use clar test framework
t/unit-tests: convert oidmap test to use clar test framework
t/unit-tests: convert oid-array test to use clar test framework
t/unit-tests: implement clar specific oid helper functions
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:37:43 +0000 (10:37 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ps/path-sans-the-repository'
The path.[ch] API takes an explicit repository parameter passed
throughout the callchain, instead of relying on the_repository
singleton instance.
* ps/path-sans-the-repository:
path: adjust last remaining users of `the_repository`
environment: move access to "core.sharedRepository" into repo settings
environment: move access to "core.hooksPath" into repo settings
repo-settings: introduce function to clear struct
path: drop `git_path()` in favor of `repo_git_path()`
rerere: let `rerere_path()` write paths into a caller-provided buffer
path: drop `git_common_path()` in favor of `repo_common_path()`
worktree: return allocated string from `get_worktree_git_dir()`
path: drop `git_path_buf()` in favor of `repo_git_path_replace()`
path: drop `git_pathdup()` in favor of `repo_git_path()`
path: drop unused `strbuf_git_path()` function
path: refactor `repo_submodule_path()` family of functions
submodule: refactor `submodule_to_gitdir()` to accept a repo
path: refactor `repo_worktree_path()` family of functions
path: refactor `repo_git_path()` family of functions
path: refactor `repo_common_path()` family of functions
Phillip Wood [Wed, 5 Mar 2025 10:42:37 +0000 (10:42 +0000)]
docs: fix repository-layout when building with breaking changes
Since commit 8ccc75c2452 (remote: announce removal of "branches/" and
"remotes/", 2025-01-22) enabling WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES when building git
removes support for reading branches from ".git/branches" and remotes
from ".git/remotes". However those locations are still documented in
gitrepository-layout.adoc even though the build does not support them.
Rectify this by adding a new document attribute "with-breaking-changes"
and use it to make the inclusion of those sections of the documentation
conditional. Note that the name of the attribute does not match the test
prerequisite WITHOUT_BREAKING_CHANGES added in c5bc9a7f94a (Makefile:
wire up build option for deprecated features, 2025-01-22). This is to
avoid the awkward double negative ifndef::without_breaking_changes for
documentation that should be included when WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES is
enabled. The test prerequisite will be renamed to match the
documentation attribute in a future patch series.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Seyi Kuforiji [Tue, 4 Mar 2025 11:33:22 +0000 (12:33 +0100)]
t/unit-tests: convert trailer test to use clar
Adapt trailer test file to use clar testing framework by using clar
assertions where necessary. Split test into individual test functions
for clarity and maintainability. Each test case now has its own
function, making it easier to isolate failures and improve test
readability.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Seyi Kuforiji <kuforiji98@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe [Tue, 4 Mar 2025 16:11:54 +0000 (17:11 +0100)]
reftable: release name on reftable_reader_new() error
If block_source_read_block() or parse_footer() fail, we leak the "name"
member of struct reftable_reader in reftable_reader_new(). Release it.
Reported by: H Z <shiyuyuranzh@gmail.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Todd Zullinger [Mon, 3 Mar 2025 20:44:07 +0000 (15:44 -0500)]
howto/new-command: update reference to builtin docs
Commit ec14d4ecb5 (builtin.h: take over documentation from
api-builtin.txt, 2017-08-02) deleted api-builtin.txt and moved the
contents into builtin.h. Most of the references were fixed in d85e9448dd (new-command.txt: update reference to builtin docs,
2023-02-04), but one remained. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Todd Zullinger [Mon, 3 Mar 2025 20:44:01 +0000 (15:44 -0500)]
doc: remove unneeded .gitattributes
The top-level .gitattributes file contains entries for the Documentation
tree. Documentation/.gitattributes has not been touched since it was
added in 14f9e128d3 (Define the project whitespace policy, 2008-02-10).
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Todd Zullinger [Mon, 3 Mar 2025 20:44:00 +0000 (15:44 -0500)]
.gitattributes: more *.txt -> *.adoc updates
All Documentation files now end in .adoc. Update the entries for
git-merge.adoc, gitk.adoc, and user-manual.adoc to properly set the
conflict-marker-size attribute.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Todd Zullinger [Mon, 3 Mar 2025 20:43:59 +0000 (15:43 -0500)]
t0450: *.txt -> *.adoc fixes
After 1f010d6bdf (doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files,
2025-01-20), we no longer matched any files in this test. The result is
that we did not test for mismatches in the documentation and --help
output.
Adjust the test to look at the renamed *.adoc files.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:28:21 +0000 (09:28 -0800)]
BreakingChanges: clarify the procedure
The point behind a compile-time switch is to ensure that we have a
mechanism to hide myriad of backward incompatible changes that may
be prepared and accumulated over time, yet make them available for
testing any time during the development toward the big version
boundary. Add a few words to stress that point.
Since the document was first written, we have added the CI job that
the document anticipated us to have. Rephrase to state the current
status.
The discussion in [*1*] made us abandon the "feature.git3" based
runtime switching of behaviour and instead adopt the compile-time
switching mechanism, but a stray sentence about runtime switching
still remained in the final text by mistake. Remove it.
Christian Couder [Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:32:04 +0000 (12:32 +0100)]
doc: add technical design doc for large object promisors
Let's add a design doc about how we could improve handling liarge blobs
using "Large Object Promisors" (LOPs). It's a set of features with the
goal of using special dedicated promisor remotes to store large blobs,
and having them accessed directly by main remotes and clients.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 3 Mar 2025 16:53:01 +0000 (08:53 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ps/build-meson-fixes-0130'
Assorted fixes and improvements to the build procedure based on
meson.
* ps/build-meson-fixes-0130:
gitlab-ci: restrict maximum number of link jobs on Windows
meson: consistently use custom program paths to resolve programs
meson: fix overwritten `git` variable
meson: prevent finding sed(1) in a loop
meson: improve handling of `sane_tool_path` option
meson: improve PATH handling
meson: drop separate version library
meson: stop linking libcurl into all executables
meson: introduce `libgit_curl` dependency
meson: simplify use of the common-main library
meson: inline the static 'git' library
meson: fix OpenSSL fallback when not explicitly required
meson: fix exec path with enabled runtime prefix
Phillip Wood [Sun, 2 Mar 2025 16:02:30 +0000 (16:02 +0000)]
meson: fix building technical and howto docs
When our asciidoc files were renamed from "*.txt" to "*.adoc" in 1f010d6bdf7 (doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20)
the "meson.build" file in "Documentation" was updated but the
"meson.build" files in the "technical" and "howto" subdirectories were
not. This causes the meson build to fail when configured with
-Ddocs=html. Fix this by updating the relevant "meson.build" files.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diffs queued from git-diff-pairs(1) are flushed when stdin is
closed. To enable greater flexibility, allow control over when the diff
queue is flushed by writing a single NUL byte on stdin between input
file pairs. Diff output between flushes is separated by a single NUL
byte.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Justin Tobler [Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:33:45 +0000 (15:33 -0600)]
builtin: introduce diff-pairs command
Through git-diff(1), a single diff can be generated from a pair of blob
revisions directly. Unfortunately, there is not a mechanism to compute
batches of specific file pair diffs in a single process. Such a feature
is particularly useful on the server-side where diffing between a large
set of changes is not feasible all at once due to timeout concerns.
To facilitate this, introduce git-diff-pairs(1) which acts as a backend
passing its NUL-terminated raw diff format input from stdin through diff
machinery to produce various forms of output such as patch or raw.
The raw format was originally designed as an interchange format and
represents the contents of the diff_queued_diff list making it possible
to break the diff pipeline into separate stages. For example,
git-diff-tree(1) can be used as a frontend to compute file pairs to
queue and feed its raw output to git-diff-pairs(1) to compute patches.
With this, batches of diffs can be progressively generated without
having to recompute renames or retrieve object context. Something like
the following:
should generate the same output as `git diff-tree -p -M`. Furthermore,
each line of raw diff formatted input can also be individually fed to a
separate git-diff-pairs(1) process and still produce the same output.
Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Justin Tobler [Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:33:44 +0000 (15:33 -0600)]
diff: add option to skip resolving diff statuses
By default, `diffcore_std()` resolves the statuses for queued diff file
pairs by calling `diff_resolve_rename_copy()`. If status information is
already manually set, invoking `diffcore_std()` may change the status
value.
Introduce the `skip_resolving_statuses` diff option that prevents
`diffcore_std()` from resolving file pair statuses when enabled.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Justin Tobler [Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:33:43 +0000 (15:33 -0600)]
diff: return diff_filepair from diff queue helpers
The `diff_addremove()` and `diff_change()` functions set up and queue
diffs, but do not return the `diff_filepair` added to the queue. In a
subsequent commit, modifications to `diff_filepair` need to occur in
certain cases after being queued.
Since the existing `diff_addremove()` and `diff_change()` are also used
for callbacks in `diff_options` as types `add_remove_fn_t` and
`change_fn_t`, modifying the existing function signatures requires
further changes. The diff options for pruning use `file_add_remove()`
and `file_change()` where file pairs do not even get queued. Thus,
separate functions are implemented instead.
Split out the queuing operations into `diff_queue_addremove()` and
`diff_queue_change()` which also return a handle to the queued
`diff_filepair`. Both `diff_addremove()` and `diff_change()` are
reimplemented as thin wrappers around the new functions.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Sat, 1 Mar 2025 18:25:10 +0000 (10:25 -0800)]
doc: fix build-docdep.perl
We renamed from .txt to .adoc all the asciidoc source files and
necessary includes. We also need to adjust the build-docdep tool to
work on files whose suffix is .adoc when computing the documentation
dependencies.
Todd Zullinger [Sat, 1 Mar 2025 15:36:02 +0000 (10:36 -0500)]
doc: update howto-index.sh for .adoc extensions
The .txt extensions were changed to .adoc in 1f010d6bdf (doc: use .adoc
extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20). This left broken links in
the generated howto-index.html.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
path: adjust last remaining users of `the_repository`
With the preceding refactorings we now only have a couple of implicit
users of `the_repository` left in the "path" subsystem, all of which
depend on global state via `calc_shared_perm()`. Make the dependency on
`the_repository` explicit by passing the repo as a parameter instead and
adjust callers accordingly.
Note that this change bubbles up into a couple of subsystems that were
previously declared as free from `the_repository`. Instead of marking
all of them as `the_repository`-dependent again, we instead use the
repository that is available in the calling context. There are three
exceptions though with "copy.c", "pack-write.c" and "tempfile.c".
Adjusting these would require us to adapt callsites all over the place,
so this is left for a future iteration.
Mark "path.c" as free from `the_repository`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
environment: move access to "core.sharedRepository" into repo settings
Similar as with the preceding commit, we track "core.sharedRepository"
via a pair of global variables. Move them into `struct repo_settings` so
that we can instead track them per-repository.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
environment: move access to "core.hooksPath" into repo settings
The "core.hooksPath" setting is stored in a global variable and
populated via the `git_default_core_config`. This may cause issues in
the case where one is handling multiple different repositories in a
single process with different values for that config key, as we may or
may not see the correct value in that case. Furthermore, global state
blocks our path towards libification.
Refactor the code so that we instead store the value in `struct
repo_settings`. The value is computed as-needed and cached. The result
should be functionally the same as there aren't ever any code paths
where we'd execute hooks outside the context of a repository.
Note that this requires us to change the passed-in repository in the
`repo_git_path()` family of functions to be non-constant, as we call
`adjust_git_path()` there.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We don't provide a way to clear a `struct repo_settings`, and instead
open-code this in `repo_clear()`. This is mixing up concerns and means
that developers have to touch multiple files whenever they add a new
field to the structure in case the associated resources need to be
released.
Provide a new `repo_settings_clear()` function to improve this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
path: drop `git_path()` in favor of `repo_git_path()`
Remove `git_path()` in favor of the `repo_git_path()` family of
functions, which makes the implicit dependency on `the_repository` go
away.
Note that `git_path()` returned a string allocated via `get_pathname()`,
which uses a rotating set of statically allocated buffers. Consequently,
callers didn't have to free the returned string. The same isn't true for
`repo_common_path()`, so we also have to add logic to free the returned
strings.
This refactoring also allows us to remove `repo_common_pathv()` as well
as `get_pathname()` from the public interface.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rerere: let `rerere_path()` write paths into a caller-provided buffer
Same as with `get_worktree_git_dir()` a couple of commits ago, the
`rerere_path()` function returns paths that need not be free'd by the
caller because `git_path()` internally uses `get_pathname()`.
Refactor the function to instead accept a caller-provided buffer that
the path will be written into, passing on ownership to the caller. This
refactoring prepares us for the removal of `git_path()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:22:59 +0000 (15:22 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ua/os-version-capability'
The value of "uname -s" is by default sent over the wire as a part
of the "version" capability.
* ua/os-version-capability:
agent: advertise OS name via agent capability
t5701: add setup test to remove side-effect dependency
version: extend get_uname_info() to hide system details
version: refactor get_uname_info()
version: refactor redact_non_printables()
version: replace manual ASCII checks with isprint() for clarity
shejialuo [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:07:48 +0000 (00:07 +0800)]
builtin/fsck: add `git refs verify` child process
At now, we have already implemented the ref consistency checks for both
"files-backend" and "packed-backend". Although we would check some
redundant things, it won't cause trouble. So, let's integrate it into
the "git-fsck(1)" command to get feedback from the users. And also by
calling "git refs verify" in "git-fsck(1)", we make sure that the new
added checks don't break.
Introduce a new function "fsck_refs" that initializes and runs a child
process to execute the "git refs verify" command. In order to provide
the user interface create a progress which makes the total task be 1.
It's hard to know how many loose refs we will check now. We might
improve this later.
Then, introduce the option to allow the user to disable checking ref
database consistency. Put this function in the very first execution
sequence of "git-fsck(1)" due to that we don't want the existing code of
"git-fsck(1)" which would implicitly check the consistency of refs to
die the program.
Last, update the test to exercise the code.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
shejialuo [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:07:40 +0000 (00:07 +0800)]
packed-backend: check whether the "packed-refs" is sorted
When there is a "sorted" trait in the header of the "packed-refs" file,
it means that each entry is sorted increasingly by comparing the
refname. We should add checks to verify whether the "packed-refs" is
sorted in this case.
Update the "packed_fsck_ref_header" to know whether there is a "sorted"
trail in the header. It may seem that we could record all refnames
during the parsing process and then compare later. However, this is not
a good design due to the following reasons:
1. Because we need to store the state across the whole checking
lifetime, we would consume a lot of memory if there are many entries
in the "packed-refs" file.
2. We cannot reuse the existing compare function "cmp_packed_ref_records"
which cause repetition.
Because "cmp_packed_ref_records" needs an extra parameter "struct
snaphost", extract the common part into a new function
"cmp_packed_ref_records" to reuse this function to compare.
Then, create a new function "packed_fsck_ref_sorted" to parse the file
again and user the new fsck message "packedRefUnsorted(ERROR)" to report
to the user if the file is not sorted.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"packed-backend.c::next_record" will parse the ref entry to check the
consistency. This function has already checked the following things:
1. Parse the main line of the ref entry to inspect whether the oid is
not correct. Then, check whether the next character is oid. Then
check the refname.
2. If the next line starts with '^', it would continue to parse the
peeled oid and check whether the last character is '\n'.
As we decide to implement the ref consistency check for "packed-refs",
let's port these two checks and update the test to exercise the code.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
shejialuo [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:07:00 +0000 (00:07 +0800)]
packed-backend: check whether the refname contains NUL characters
"packed-backend.c::next_record" will use "check_refname_format" to check
the consistency of the refname. If it is not OK, the program will die.
However, it is reported in [1], we cannot catch some corruption. But we
already have the code path and we must miss out something.
In the above code, `p` is the start pointer of the refname and `eol` is
the next newline pointer. We calculate the length of the refname by
subtracting the two pointers. Then we add the memory range between `p`
and `eol` to get the refname.
However, if there are some NUL characters in the memory range between `p`
and `eol`, we will see the refname as a valid ref name as long as the
memory range between `p` and first occurred NUL character is valid.
In order to catch above corruption, create a new function
"refname_contains_nul" by searching the first NUL character. If it is
not at the end of the string, there must be some NUL characters in the
refname.
Use this function in "next_record" function to die the program if
"refname_contains_nul" returns true.
Reported-by: R. Diez <rdiez-temp3@rd10.de> Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "packed-backend.c::create_snapshot", if there is a header (the line
which starts with '#'), we will check whether the line starts with "#
pack-refs with: ". However, we need to consider other situations and
discuss whether we need to add checks.
1. If the header does not exist, we should not report an error to the
user. This is because in older Git version, we never write header in
the "packed-refs" file. Also, we do allow no header in "packed-refs"
in runtime.
2. If the header content does not start with "# packed-ref with: ", we
should report an error just like what "create_snapshot" does. So,
create a new fsck message "badPackedRefHeader(ERROR)" for this.
3. If the header content is not the same as the constant string
"PACKED_REFS_HEADER". This is expected because we make it extensible
intentionally and runtime "create_snapshot" won't complain about
unknown traits. In order to align with the runtime behavior. There is
no need to report.
As we have analyzed, we only need to check the case 2 in the above. In
order to do this, use "open_nofollow" function to get the file
descriptor and then read the "packed-refs" file via "strbuf_read". Like
what "create_snapshot" and other functions do, we could split the line
by finding the next newline in the buffer. When we cannot find a
newline, we could report an error.
So, create a function "packed_fsck_ref_next_line" to find the next
newline and if there is no such newline, use
"packedRefEntryNotTerminated(ERROR)" to report an error to the user.
Then, parse the first line to apply the checks. Update the test to
exercise the code.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
shejialuo [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:06:40 +0000 (00:06 +0800)]
packed-backend: check if header starts with "# pack-refs with: "
We always write a space after "# pack-refs with:" but we don't align
with this rule in the "create_snapshot" method where we would check
whether header starts with "# pack-refs with:". It might seem that we
should undoubtedly tighten this rule, however, we don't have any
technical documentation about this and there is a possibility that we
would break the compatibility for other third-party libraries.
By investigating influential third-party libraries, we could conclude
how these libraries handle the header of "packed-refs" file:
1. libgit2 is fine and always writes the space. It also expects the
whitespace to exist.
2. JGit does not expect th header to have a trailing space, but expects
the "peeled" capability to have a leading space, which is mostly
equivalent because that capability is typically the first one we
write. It always writes the space.
3. gitoxide expects the space t exist and writes it.
4. go-git doesn't create the header by default.
As many third-party libraries expect a single space after "# pack-refs
with:", if we forget to write the space after the colon,
"create_snapshot" won't catch this. And we would break other
re-implementations. So, we'd better tighten the rule by checking whether
the header starts with "# pack-refs with: ".
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>