We send errors to the pager since 61b80509e3 (sending errors to stdout
under $PAGER, 2008-02-16).
In a8335024c2 (pager: do not dup2 stderr if it is already redirected,
2008-12-15) an exception was introduced to avoid redirecting stderr if
it is not connected to a terminal.
In such exceptional cases, the close(STDERR_FILENO) we're doing in
close_pager_fds, is unnecessary.
Furthermore, in a subsequent commit we're going to introduce changes
that will involve using close_pager_fds multiple times.
With this in mind, controlling when we want to close stderr, become
sensible.
Let's close(STDERR_FILENO) only when necessary, and pave the way for the
upcoming changes.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:49:34 +0000 (08:49 -0700)]
ReviewingGuidelines: encourage positive reviews more
I saw some contributors hesitate to give a positive review on
patches by their coworkers. When written well, a positive review
does not have to be a hollow "looks good" that rubber stamps an
useless approval on a topic that is not interesting to others.
Let's add a few paragraphs to encourage positive reviews, which is a
bit harder to give than a review to point out things to improve.
Alexander Shopov [Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:11:11 +0000 (14:11 +0300)]
show-ref: improve short help messages of options
Trivial change to indicate that branches and tags are real options
that can be used combined to get more information. This helps with
linting translations and prompting the user that the terms represent
options.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shopov <ash@kambanaria.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:17:55 +0000 (14:17 -0700)]
Doc: fix Asciidoctor css workaround
The previous step introduced docinfo.html to be used to tweak the
CSS used by the asciidoctor, that by default renders <code> inside
<pre> as a block element, breaking the SYNOPSIS section of a few
pages that adopted a new convention we use since Git 2.45.
But in this project, HTML files are all generated. We do not force
any human to write HTML by hand, which is an unusual and cruel
punishment. "*.html" is in the .gitignore file, and "make clean"
removes them. Having a tracked .html file makes "make clean" make
the tree dirty by removing the tracked docinfo.html file.
Let's do an obvious, minimum and stupid workaround to generate that
file at runtime instead. The mark-up is being rethought in a major
way for the next development cycle, and the CSS workaround we added
in the previous step may have to adjusted, possibly in a large way,
anyway.
For 'clang-format', setting 'RemoveBracesLLVM' to 'true', adds a check
to ensure we avoid curly braces for single-statement bodies in
conditional blocks.
However, the option does come with two warnings [1]:
This option will be renamed and expanded to support other styles.
and
Setting this option to true could lead to incorrect code formatting
due to clang-format’s lack of complete semantic information. As
such, extra care should be taken to review code changes made by
this option.
The latter seems to be of concern. While we want to experiment with the
rule, adding it to the in-tree '.clang-format' could affect end-users.
Let's only add it to the CI jobs for now. With time, we can evaluate
its efficacy and decide if we want to add it to '.clang-format' or
retract it entirely. We do so, by adding the existing rules in
'.clang-format' and this rule to a temp file outside the working tree,
which is then used by 'git clang-format'. This ensures we don't murk
with files in-tree.
check-whitespace: detect if no base_commit is provided
The 'check-whitespace' CI script exits gracefully if no base commit is
provided or if an invalid revision is provided. This is not good because
if a particular CI provides an incorrect base_commit, it would fail
successfully.
This is exactly the case with the GitLab CI. The CI is using the
"$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHA" variable to get the base commit
SHA, but variable is only defined for _merged_ pipelines. So it is empty
for regular pipelines [1]. This should've failed the check-whitespace
job.
Let's fallback to 'CI_MERGE_REQUEST_DIFF_BASE_SHA' if
"CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHA" isn't available in GitLab CI,
similar to the previous commit. Let's also add a check for incorrect
base_commit in the 'check-whitespace.sh' script. While here, fix a small
typo too.
We don't run style checks on our CI, even though we have a
'.clang-format' setup in the repository. Let's add one, the job will
validate only against the new commits added and will only run on merge
requests. Since we're introducing it for the first time, let's allow
this job to fail, so we can validate if this is useful and eventually
enforce it.
For GitHub, we allow the job to pass by adding 'continue-on-error: true'
to the workflow. This means the job would show as passed, even if the
style check failed. To know the status of the job, users have to
manually check the logs.
For GitLab, we allow the job to pass by adding 'allow_failure: true', to
the job. Unlike GitHub, here the job will show as failed with a yellow
warning symbol, but the pipeline would still show as passed.
Also for GitLab, we use the 'CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHA'
variable by default to obtain the base SHA of the merged pipeline (which
is only available for merged pipelines [1]). Otherwise we use the
'CI_MERGE_REQUEST_DIFF_BASE_SHA' variable.
There are some spacing rules that we follow in the project and it makes
sense to formalize them:
* Ensure there is no space inserted after the logical not '!' operator.
* Ensure there is no space before the case statement's colon.
* Ensure there is no space before the first bracket '[' of an array.
* Ensure there is no space in empty blocks.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The spacing around colons is currently not standardized and as such we
have the following practices in our code base:
- Spacing around the colon `int bf : 1`: 146 instances
- No spacing around the colon `int bf:1`: 148 instances
- Spacing before the colon `int bf :1`: 6 instances
- Spacing after the colon `int bf: 1`: 12 instances
Let's formalize this by picking the most followed pattern and add the
corresponding style to '.clang-format'.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
clang-format: indent preprocessor directives after hash
We do not have a rule around the indentation of preprocessor directives.
This was also discussed on the list [1], noting how there is often
inconsistency in the styling. While there was discussion, there was no
conclusion around what is the preferred style here. One style being
indenting after the hash:
#if FOO
# if BAR
# include <foo>
# endif
#endif
The other being before the hash:
#if FOO
#if BAR
#include <foo>
#endif
#endif
Let's pick the former and add 'IndentPPDirectives: AfterHash' value to
our '.clang-format'. There is no clear reason to pick one over the
other, but it would definitely be nicer to be consistent.
It was reported that t1460-refs-migrate.sh fails when using Cygwin with
errors like the following:
error: could not link file '.git/ref_migration.sr9pEF/reftable' to '.git/reftable': Permission denied
As some debugging surfaced, the root cause of this is that some files of
the newly-initialized ref store are still open when the target format is
the "reftable" format, and Cygwin refuses to rename open files.
Fix this issue by closing the new ref store before renaming its files
into place. This is a slight change in behaviour compared to before,
where we kept the new ref store open and then updated the repository's
ref store to point to it.
While we could re-open the new ref store after we have moved files
around, this is ultimately unnecessary. We know that the only user of
`repo_migrate_ref_storage_format()` is the git-refs(1) command, and it
won't access the ref store after it has been migrated anyway. So
reinitializing the ref store would be a waste of time. Regardless of
that it is still sensible to leave the repository in a consistent state.
But instead of reinitializing the ref store, we can simply unset the
repo's ref store altogether and let `get_main_ref_store()` lazily
initialize the new ref store as required.
Reported-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:04:54 +0000 (17:04 -0700)]
CodingGuidelines: document a shell that "fails" "VAR=VAL shell_func"
Over the years, we accumulated the community wisdom to avoid the
common "one-short export" construct for shell functions, but seem to
have lost on which exact platform it is known to fail. Now during
an investigation on a breakage for a recent topic, we found one
example of failing shell. Let's document that.
This does *not* mean that we can freely start using the construct
once Ubuntu 20.04 is retired. But it does mean that we cannot use
the construct until Ubuntu 20.04 is fully retired from the machines
that matter. Moreover, posix explicitly says that the behaviour for
the construct is unspecified.
Helped-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tomas Nordin [Mon, 22 Jul 2024 22:53:02 +0000 (22:53 +0000)]
doc: remove dangling closing parenthesis
The second line of the synopsis, starting with [--dry-run] has a
dangling closing paren in the second optional group. Probably added by
mistake, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 76880f0510c (doc: git-clone: apply new documentation formatting
guidelines, 2024-03-29), the synopsis of `git clone`'s manual page is
rendered differently than before; Its parent commit did the same for
`git init`.
The result looks quite nice. When rendered with AsciiDoc, that is. When
rendered using AsciiDoctor and displayed in a graphical web browser such
as Firefox, Chrome, Edge, etc, the result is quite unpleasant to my eye,
reading something like this:
The reason is that AsciiDoctor's default style sheet contains this (see
https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/blob/854923b15533/src/stylesheets/asciidoctor.css#L519-L521
for context):
pre > code {
display: block;
}
It is this `display: block` that forces the parts that are enclosed in
`<code>` tags (such as the `git clone` or the `--template=` part) to be
rendered on their own line.
Side note: This seems not to affect console web browsers like `lynx` or
`w3m`, most likely because most style sheet directions cannot be
respected in text terminals and therefore they seem to punt on style
sheets altogether.
To fix this, let's apply the method recommended by AsciiDoctor in
https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor/latest/html-backend/default-stylesheet/#customize-docinfo
to partially override AsciiDoctor's default style sheet so that the
`<code>` sections of the synopsis are no longer each rendered on their
own, individual lines.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5063.
Even on the Git home page, where AsciiDoctor's default stylesheet is
_not_ used, this change resulted in some unpleasant rendering where not
only the font is changed for the `<code>` sections of the synopsis, but
padding and a different background color make the visual impression
quite uneven. This has been addressed in the meantime, via
https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/commit/a492d0565512.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
add-patch: use normalize_marker() when recounting edited hunk
After the user has edited a hunk the number of lines in the pre- and
post- image lines is recounted the hunk header can be updated before
passing the hunk to "git apply". The recounting code correctly handles
empty context lines where the leading ' ' is omitted by treating '\n'
and '\r' as context lines.
Update this code to use normalize_marker() so that the handling of empty
context lines is consistent with the rest of the hunk parsing
code. There is a small change in behavior as normalize_marker() only
treats "\r\n" as an empty context line rather than any line starting
with '\r'. This should not matter in practice as Macs have used Unix
line endings since MacOs 10 was released in 2001 and if it transpires
that someone is still using an earlier version of MacOs where lines end
with '\r' then we will need to change the handling of '\r' in
normalize_marker() anyway.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
add-patch: handle splitting hunks with diff.suppressBlankEmpty
When "add -p" parses diffs, it looks for context lines starting with a
single space. But when diff.suppressBlankEmpty is in effect, an empty
context line will omit the space, giving us a true empty line. This
confuses the parser, which is unable to split based on such a line.
It's tempting to say that we should just make sure that we generate a
diff without that option. However, although we do not parse hunks that
the user has manually edited with parse_diff() we do allow the user
to split such hunks. As POSIX calls the decision of whether to print the
space here "implementation-defined" we need to handle edited hunks where
empty context lines omit the space.
So let's handle both cases: a context line either starts with a space or
consists of a totally empty line by normalizing the first character to a
space when we parse them. Normalizing the first character rather than
changing the code to check for a space or newline will hopefully future
proof against introducing similar bugs if the code is changed.
Reported-by: Ilya Tumaykin <itumaykin@gmail.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
doc: git-clone fix discrepancy between asciidoc and asciidoctor
Asciidoc.py does not have the concept of generalized roles, whereas
asciidoctor interprets [foo]`blah` as blah with role foo in the
synopsis, making in effect foo disappear in the output. Note that
square brackets not directly followed by an inline markup do not
define a role, which is why we do not have the issue on other parts of
the documentation.
In order to get a consistant result across asciidoctor and
asciidoc.py, the hack is to use the {empty} entity
to split the bracket part from the inline format part.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:52:09 +0000 (13:52 -0700)]
howto-maintain: update daily tasks
Some "implementation details" of how I perform these integration
tasks day to day have changed since the document was originally
written. Update to reflect the way things are currently done.
Junio C Hamano [Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:44:35 +0000 (13:44 -0700)]
howto-maintain: cover a whole development cycle
The "policy" part is more important than the "daily operation" part
in that it establishes why certain maintainer tasks exist and are
performed the way they are.
The text briefly touches the role each integration branches play in
the workflow, but does not give the whole picture of what happens in
a single development cycle using these branches. Extend the
description to describe a whole development cycle.
This reverts b7d6f23a171 (midx-write.c: use `--stdin-packs` when
repacking, 2024-04-01) and then marks the test created in the previous
change as passing.
The fundamental issue with the reverted change is that the focus on
pack-files separates the object selection from how the multi-pack-index
selects a single pack-file for an object ID with multiple copies among
the tracked pack-files.
The change was made with the intention of improving delta compression in
the resulting pack-file, but that can be resolved with the existing
object list mechanism. There are other potential pitfalls of doing an
object walk at this time if the repository is a blobless partial clone,
and that will require additional testing on top of the one that changes
here.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Alex Galvin [Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:47:37 +0000 (20:47 +0000)]
git-svn: use `svn:global-ignores` to create .gitignore
`svn:global-ignores` contains a list of file patterns that should
not be tracked in version control. The syntax of these patterns is
the same as `svn:ignore`. Their semantics differ: patterns in
`svn:global-ignores` apply to all paths under the directory where
they apply, while `svn:ignore` only applies to the directory's
immediate children.
Signed-off-by: Alex Galvin <agalvin@comqi.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Alex Galvin [Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:47:36 +0000 (20:47 +0000)]
git-svn: add public property `svn:global-ignores`
Subversion 1.8 added a new property `svn:global-ignores`. It
contains a list of patterns used to determine what files should
be ignored. If Git-SVN is going to ignore these files as well, it
is important that we do not skip over directories that have this
property set.
Signed-off-by: Alex Galvin <agalvin@comqi.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git 2.45.0 included the change b7d6f23a171 (midx-write.c: use
`--stdin-packs` when repacking, 2024-04-01) which caused the 'git
multi-pack-index repack' command to use 'git pack-objects --stdin-packs'
instead of listing the objects to repack. While this change was
motivated by efficient cross-process communication and the ability to
improve delta compression, it breaks a fundamental function of the
'incremental-repack' task that is enabled by default in Scalar clones or
Git repositories that run 'git maintenance start'.
The 'incremental-repack' task performs a two-step process of the
'expire' and 'repack' subcommands of the 'git multi-pack-index' builtin.
The 'expire' command removes any pack-files listed in the
multi-pack-index but without any referenced objects. The 'repack' task
then finds a batch of pack-files to repack and sends their objects to
'git pack-objects'. Both the pack-files chosen for the batch and the
objects chosen to repack are based on the ones that the multi-pack-index
references. Objects that appear in a pack-file but have a duplicate copy
in a newer pack-file are not considered in this case. Since the
multi-pack-index references only the newest copy of an object, this
allows the next 'incremental-repack' task to remove the pack-files in
the next 'expire' task. This delay is intentional due to how Windows
handles may block deletion of files with open read handles.
However, the mentioned commit changed this behavior to divorce the set
of objects referenced by the multi-pack-index and instead use a set of
"included" and "excluded" pack-files in the 'git pack-objects' builtin.
When a pack-file is selected as "included", only the objects it contains
but are not in any "excluded" pack-files are considered for repacking.
This has led to client repositories failing to remove old pack-files as
they still have some referenced objects. This grows over time until the
point that Git is trying to repack the same pack-files over and over.
For now, create a test case that demonstrates the expected behavior, but
also fails in its final line. The setup here it attempting to recreate a
typical situation for a repository that uses a blobless partial clone.
There would be a large initial pack-file from the clone that is never
selected in the 'repack' batch. There are other pack-files that have a
combination of new objects from incremental fetches and possibly blobs
that are not connected to those incremental fetches; these blobs could
be filled in from commands like 'git checkout' or 'git blame'. The
pack-files also have some overlap on purpose so test-1 has some
duplicates in test-2 and test-2 has some duplicates in test-3.
At the end of the test, the test-2 pack-file still exists though it
should have been expired. This test will pass when reverting the
offending commit.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ramsay Jones [Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:13:25 +0000 (02:13 +0100)]
config.mak.uname: remove unused uname_P variable
The uname_P make variable was added in commit e15f545155 ("Makefile
tweaks: Solaris 9+ dont need iconv / move up uname variables",
2006-02-20), but it seems to never have been used (even in that original
commit). The man page for 'uname' notes that the '-p' processor option
is non-portable (the 'uname_M' variable is used by the Makefile for that
purpose).
Remove the unused 'uname_P' make variable.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ramsay Jones [Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:12:19 +0000 (02:12 +0100)]
Makefile: drop -Wno-universal-initializer from SP_EXTRA_FLAGS
Commit 1c96642326 ("sparse: allow '{ 0 }' to be used without warnings",
2020-05-22) added -Wno-universal-initializer to the SP_EXTRA_FLAGS in
order to suppress potential sparse warnings from using '{0}' as an
aggregate initializer. At that time, the default was for sparse to
issue warnings (i.e. the default was -Wuniversal-initializer) if such
an initializer was used to initialize an aggregate whose first member
was a pointer type. However, this default was changed just a few days
later to -Wno-universal-initializer (first released in sparse v0.6.2)
and has been so in all subsequent release versions of sparse. Thus,
including -Wno-universal-initializer in the SP_EXTRA_FLAGS variable is
redundant.
Remove the unnecessary warning flag from SP_EXTRA_FLAGS, essentially
reverting commit 1c96642326.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:47:27 +0000 (10:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'js/var-git-shell-path'
"git var GIT_SHELL_PATH" should report the path to the shell used
to spawn external commands, but it didn't do so on Windows, which
has been corrected.
* js/var-git-shell-path:
var(win32): do report the GIT_SHELL_PATH that is actually used
run-command: declare the `git_shell_path()` function globally
run-command(win32): resolve the path to the Unix shell early
mingw(is_msys2_sh): handle forward slashes in the `sh.exe` path, too
win32: override `fspathcmp()` with a directory separator-aware version
strvec: declare the `strvec_push_nodup()` function globally
run-command: refactor getting the Unix shell path into its own function
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:47:25 +0000 (10:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jc/http-cookiefile'
The http.cookieFile and http.saveCookies configuration variables
have a few values that need to be avoided, which are now ignored
with warning messages.
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:47:24 +0000 (10:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/test-body-in-here-doc'
The test framework learned to take the test body not as a single
string but as a here-document.
* jk/test-body-in-here-doc:
t/.gitattributes: ignore whitespace in chainlint expect files
t: convert some here-doc test bodies
test-lib: allow test snippets as here-docs
chainlint.pl: add tests for test body in heredoc
chainlint.pl: recognize test bodies defined via heredoc
chainlint.pl: check line numbers in expected output
chainlint.pl: force CRLF conversion when opening input files
chainlint.pl: do not spawn more threads than we have scripts
chainlint.pl: only start threads if jobs > 1
chainlint.pl: add test_expect_success call to test snippets
Taylor Blau [Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:17:31 +0000 (09:17 -0400)]
Documentation: fix default value for core.maxTreeDepth
When `core.maxTreeDepth` was originally introduced via be20128bfa (add
core.maxTreeDepth config, 2023-08-31), its default value was 4096.
There have since been a couple of updates to its default value that were
not reflected in the documentation for `core.maxTreeDepth`:
- 4d5693ba05 (lower core.maxTreeDepth default to 2048, 2023-08-31)
- b64d78ad02 (max_tree_depth: lower it for MSVC to avoid stack
overflows, 2023-11-01)
Commit 4d5693ba05 lowers the default to 2048 for platforms with smaller
stack sizes, and commit b64d78ad02 lowers the default even further when
Git is compiled with MSVC.
Neither of these changes were reflected in the documentation, which I
noticed while merging newer releases back into GitHub's private fork
(which contained the original implementation of `core.maxTreeDepth`).
Update the documentation to reflect what the platform-specific default
values are.
Noticed-by: Keith W. Campbell <keithc@ca.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Martin Ågren [Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:54:28 +0000 (12:54 +0200)]
Documentation/gitpacking: make sample configs listing blocks
This document contains a few sample config snippets. At least with
Asciidoctor, the section headers are rendered *more* indented than the
variables that follow:
[bitmapPseudoMerge "all"]
pattern = "refs/"
...
To address this, wrap these listings in AsciiDoc listing blocks. Remove
the indentation from the section headings. This is similar to how we
handle such sample config elsewhere, e.g., in config.txt.
While we're here, fix the nearby "wiht" typo.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:00:50 +0000 (03:00 -0400)]
t4153: stop redirecting input from /dev/zero
Commit 852a171018 (am: let command-line options override saved options,
2015-08-04) redirected a few "git am" invocations from /dev/zero, even
though it did not expect "am" to read the input. This was necessary at
the time because those tests used test_terminal, and as described in 18d8c26930 (test_terminal: redirect child process' stdin to a pty,
2015-08-04):
Note that due to the way the code is structured, the child's stdin
pseudo-tty will be closed when we finish reading from our stdin. This
means that in the common case, where our stdin is attached to /dev/null,
the child's stdin pseudo-tty will be closed immediately. Some operations
like isatty(), which git-am uses, require the file descriptor to be
open, and hence if the success of the command depends on such functions,
test_terminal's stdin should be redirected to a source with large amount
of data to ensure that the child's stdin is not closed, e.g.
test_terminal git am --3way </dev/zero
But we later dropped the use of test_terminal in 53ce2e3f0a (am: add
explicit "--retry" option, 2024-06-06). That commit dropped one of the
redirections from /dev/zero but not the other.
In theory the remaining one should not cause any problems, but it turns
out that at least one platform (NonStop) does not have /dev/zero at all.
We never noticed before because it also did not pass the TTY prereq,
meaning these tests were not run at all there until 53ce2e3f0a.
So let's drop the useless /dev/zero mention. There are others in the
test suite, but they are run only for tests marked with EXPENSIVE (so
not typically by default).
Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:56:25 +0000 (12:56 -0700)]
Revert "reflog expire: don't use lookup_commit_reference_gently()"
During Git 2.35 timeframe, daf1d828 (reflog expire: don't use
lookup_commit_reference_gently(), 2021-12-22) replaced a call to
lookup_commit_reference_gently() with a call to lookup_commit().
What it failed to consider was that our refs do not necessarily
point at commits (most notably, we have annotated and signed tags),
and more importantly that lookup_commit() does not dereference a tag
to return a commit; instead it returns NULL when a tag is given.
Since the commit returned is used as a starting point for the
reachability check, this ejected the commits that are reachable only
by an annotated tag out of the set of reachable commits, breaking
the computation to correctly implement the "--expire-unreachable"
option. We also started giving an error message that the API
function expected to be fed a commit object.
This problem hasn't been reported or noticed for a long time,
probably because the "refs/tags/" hierarchy by default is not
covered by reflogs, as nobody usually moves tags.
Revert the change to correctly find the commit pointed at by the ref
to restore the previous behaviour, but do so only in a more modern
codebase, as we had significant code churn since then and it is not
grave enough to worry about for older maintenance tracks.
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:18:58 +0000 (11:18 -0700)]
Merge branch 'bc/gitfaq-more'
A handful of entries are added to the GitFAQ document.
* bc/gitfaq-more:
doc: mention that proxies must be completely transparent
gitfaq: add entry about syncing working trees
gitfaq: give advice on using eol attribute in gitattributes
gitfaq: add documentation on proxies
Address-looking strings found on the trailer are now placed on the Cc: list after running through sanitize_address by "git send-email".
* cb/send-email-sanitize-trailer-addresses:
git-send-email: use sanitized address when reading mbox body
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:18:55 +0000 (11:18 -0700)]
Merge branch 'en/ort-inner-merge-error-fix'
The "ort" merge backend saw one bugfix for a crash that happens
when inner merge gets killed, and assorted code clean-ups.
* en/ort-inner-merge-error-fix:
merge-ort: fix missing early return
merge-ort: convert more error() cases to path_msg()
merge-ort: upon merge abort, only show messages causing the abort
merge-ort: loosen commented requirements
merge-ort: clearer propagation of failure-to-function from merge_submodule
merge-ort: fix type of local 'clean' var in handle_content_merge ()
merge-ort: maintain expected invariant for priv member
merge-ort: extract handling of priv member into reusable function
Christian Hesse [Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:55:44 +0000 (11:55 +0200)]
refs: correct the version numbers in a comment
The paragraph talks about a change made in c8f815c2 (refs: remove
functions without ref store, 2024-05-07), which is v2.46.0-rc0~119^2
and will be published as part of v2.46, not v2.45.
Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `githooks` documentation mentions that the post-receive hook
executes once after git-receive-pack(1) updates all references and that
it also receives the same information as the pre-receive hook on
standard input. This is misleading though because the hook only
executes once if at least one of the attempted reference updates is
successful. Also, while each line provided on standard input is in the
same format as the pre-receive hook, the information received only
includes the set of references that were successfully updated.
Update the documentation to clarify these points and also provide a
reference to the post-receive hook section of the `git-receive-pack`
documentation which has additional information.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:05:00 +0000 (08:05 -0700)]
doc: note that AT&T ksh does not work with our test suite
The scripted Porcelain commands do not allow use of "local" because
it is not universally supported, but we use it liberally in our test
scripts, which means some POSIX compliant shells (like "ksh93") can
not be used to run our tests.
Document the status quo, to help the next person who gets perplexed
seeing our tests fail.
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:11:43 +0000 (10:11 -0700)]
Merge branch 'cp/unit-test-reftable-record'
A test in reftable library has been rewritten using the unit test
framework.
* cp/unit-test-reftable-record:
t-reftable-record: add tests for reftable_log_record_compare_key()
t-reftable-record: add tests for reftable_ref_record_compare_name()
t-reftable-record: add index tests for reftable_record_is_deletion()
t-reftable-record: add obj tests for reftable_record_is_deletion()
t-reftable-record: add log tests for reftable_record_is_deletion()
t-reftable-record: add ref tests for reftable_record_is_deletion()
t-reftable-record: add comparison tests for obj records
t-reftable-record: add comparison tests for index records
t-reftable-record: add comparison tests for ref records
t-reftable-record: add reftable_record_cmp() tests for log records
t: move reftable/record_test.c to the unit testing framework
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:11:41 +0000 (10:11 -0700)]
Merge branch 'jk/tests-without-dns'
Test suite has been taught not to unnecessarily rely on DNS failing
a bogus external name.
* jk/tests-without-dns:
t/lib-bundle-uri: use local fake bundle URLs
t5551: do not confirm that bogus url cannot be used
t5553: use local url for invalid fetch
"git describe --dirty --broken" forgot to refresh the index before
seeing if there is any chang, ("git describe --dirty" correctly did
so), which has been corrected.
* as/describe-broken-refresh-index-fix:
describe: refresh the index when 'broken' flag is used
René Scharfe [Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:06:50 +0000 (19:06 +0200)]
t-strvec: improve check_strvec() output
The macro check_strvec calls the function check_strvec_loc(), which
performs the actual checks. They report the line number inside that
function on error, which is not very helpful. Before the previous
patch half of them triggered an assertion that reported the caller's
line number using a custom message, which was more useful, but a bit
awkward.
Improve the output by getting rid of check_strvec_loc() and performing
all checks within check_strvec, as they then report the line number of
the call site, aiding in finding the broken test. Determine the number
of items and check it up front to avoid having to do them both in the
loop and at the end.
Sanity check the expected items to make sure there are any and that the
last one is NULL, as the compiler no longer does that for us with the
removal of the function attribute LAST_ARG_MUST_BE_NULL.
Use only the actual strvec name passed to the macro, the internal
"expect" array name and an index "i" in the output, for clarity. While
"expect" does not exist at the call site, it's reasonably easy to infer
that it's referring to the NULL-terminated list of expected strings,
converted to an array.
Here's the output with less items than expected in the strvec before:
We can let check_strvec add the terminating NULL for us and remove it
from callers, making it impossible to forget. Leave that conversion for
a future patch, though, since this reimplementation is already intrusive
enough.
Reported-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>
The documentation claims that "recursive defaults to the diff.algorithm
config setting", but this is currently not the case. This fixes it,
ensuring that diff.algorithm is used when -Xdiff-algorithm is not
supplied. This affects the following porcelain commands: "merge",
"rebase", "cherry-pick", "pull", "stash", "log", "am" and "checkout".
It also affects the "merge-tree" ancillary interrogator.
This change refactors the initialization of merge options to introduce
two functions, "init_merge_ui_options" and "init_merge_basic_options"
instead of just one "init_merge_options". This design follows the
approach used in diff.c, providing initialization methods for
porcelain and plumbing commands respectively. Thanks to that, the
"replay" and "merge-recursive" plumbing commands remain unaffected by
diff.algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Antonin Delpeuch <antonin@delpeuch.eu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
var(win32): do report the GIT_SHELL_PATH that is actually used
On Windows, Unix-like paths like `/bin/sh` make very little sense. In
the best case, they simply don't work, in the worst case they are
misinterpreted as absolute paths that are relative to the drive
associated with the current directory.
To that end, Git does not actually use the path `/bin/sh` that is
recorded e.g. when `run_command()` is called with a Unix shell
command-line. Instead, as of 776297548e (Do not use SHELL_PATH from
build system in prepare_shell_cmd on Windows, 2012-04-17), it
re-interprets `/bin/sh` as "look up `sh` on the `PATH` and use the
result instead".
This is the logic users expect to be followed when running `git var
GIT_SHELL_PATH`.
However, when 1e65721227 (var: add support for listing the shell,
2023-06-27) introduced support for `git var GIT_SHELL_PATH`, Windows was
not special-cased as above, which is why it outputs `/bin/sh` even
though that disagrees with what Git actually uses.
Let's fix this by using the exact same logic as `prepare_shell_cmd()`,
adjusting the Windows-specific `git var GIT_SHELL_PATH` test case to
verify that it actually finds a working executable.
Reported-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
run-command(win32): resolve the path to the Unix shell early
In 776297548e (Do not use SHELL_PATH from build system in
prepare_shell_cmd on Windows, 2012-04-17), the hard-coded path to the
Unix shell was replaced by passing `sh` instead when executing Unix
shell scripts in Git.
This was done because the hard-coded path to the Unix shell is incorrect
on Windows because it not only is a Unix-style absolute path instead of
a Windows one, but Git uses the runtime prefix feature on Windows, i.e.
the correct path cannot be hard-coded.
Naturally, the `sh` argument will be resolved to the full path of said
executable eventually.
To help fixing the bug where `git var GIT_SHELL_PATH` currently does not
reflect that logic, but shows that incorrect hard-coded Unix-style
absolute path, let's resolve the full path to the `sh` executable early
in the `git_shell_path()` function so that we can use it in `git var`,
too, and be sure that the output is equivalent to what `run_command()`
does when it is asked to execute a command-line using a Unix shell.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mingw(is_msys2_sh): handle forward slashes in the `sh.exe` path, too
Whether the full path to the MSYS2 Bash is specified using backslashes
or forward slashes, in either case the command-line arguments need to be
quoted in the MSYS2-specific manner instead of using regular Win32
command-line quoting rules.
In preparation for `prepare_shell_cmd()` to use the full path to
`sh.exe` (with forward slashes for consistency), let's teach the
`is_msys2_sh()` function about this; Otherwise 5580.4 'clone with
backslashed path' would fail once `prepare_shell_cmd()` uses the full
path instead of merely `sh`.
This patch relies on the just-introduced fix where `fspathcmp()` handles
backslashes and forward slashes as equivalent on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
win32: override `fspathcmp()` with a directory separator-aware version
On Windows, the backslash is the directory separator, even if the
forward slash can be used, too, at least since Windows NT.
This means that the paths `a/b` and `a\b` are equivalent, and
`fspathcmp()` needs to be made aware of that fact.
Note that we have to override both `fspathcmp()` and `fspathncmp()`, and
the former cannot be a mere pre-processor constant that transforms calls
to `fspathcmp(a, b)` into `fspathncmp(a, b, (size_t)-1)` because the
function `report_collided_checkout()` in `unpack-trees.c` wants to
assign `list.cmp = fspathcmp`.
Also note that `fspatheq()` does _not_ need to be overridden because it
calls `fspathcmp()` internally.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strvec: declare the `strvec_push_nodup()` function globally
This function differs from `strvec_push()` in that it takes ownership of
the allocated string that is passed as second argument.
This is useful when appending elements to the string array that have
been freshly allocated and serve no further other purpose after that.
Without declaring this function globally, call sites would allocate the
memory, only to have `strvec_push()` duplicate the string, and then the
first copy would need to be released. Having this function globally
avoids that kind of unnecessary work.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the `oidtree` test helper was turned into a unit test, a new
`lib-oid` source file was added as dependency. This was only done in the
Makefile so far, but also needs to be done in the CMake definition.
This is a companion of ed548408723d (t/: migrate helper/test-oidtree.c
to unit-tests/t-oidtree.c, 2024-06-08).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t-reftable-merged: add test for REFTABLE_FORMAT_ERROR
When calling reftable_new_merged_table(), if the hash ID of the
passed reftable_table parameter doesn't match the passed hash_id
parameter, a REFTABLE_FORMAT_ERROR is thrown. This case is
currently left unexercised, so add a test for the same.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t-reftable-merged: use reftable_ref_record_equal to compare ref records
In the test t_merged_single_record() defined in t-reftable-merged.c,
the 'input' and 'expected' ref records are checked for equality
by comparing their update indices. It is very much possible for
two different ref records to have the same update indices. Use
reftable_ref_record_equal() instead for a stronger check.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t-reftable-merged: add tests for reftable_merged_table_max_update_index
reftable_merged_table_max_update_index() as defined by reftable/
merged.{c, h} returns the maximum update index in a merged table.
Since this function is currently unexercised, add tests for it.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t-reftable-merged: improve the const-correctness of helper functions
In t-reftable-merged.c, a number of helper functions used by the
tests can be re-defined with parameters made 'const' which makes
it easier to understand if they're read-only or not. Re-define
these functions along these lines.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t-reftable-merged: improve the test t_merged_single_record()
In t-reftable-merged.c, the test t_merged_single_record() ensures
that a ref ('a') which occurs in only one of the records ('r2')
can be retrieved. Improve this test by adding another record 'r3'
to ensure that ref 'a' only occurs in 'r2' and that merged tables
don't simply read the last record.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t: harmonize t-reftable-merged.c with coding guidelines
Harmonize the newly ported test unit-tests/t-reftable-merged.c
with the following guidelines:
- Single line control flow statements like 'for' and 'if'
must omit curly braces.
- Structs must be 0-initialized with '= { 0 }' instead of '= { NULL }'.
- Array indices should preferably be of type 'size_t', not 'int'.
- It is fine to use C99 initial declaration in 'for' loop.
While at it, use 'ARRAY_SIZE(x)' to store the number of elements
in an array instead of hardcoding them.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t: move reftable/merged_test.c to the unit testing framework
reftable/merged_test.c exercises the functions defined in
reftable/merged.{c, h}. Migrate reftable/merged_test.c to the unit
testing framework. Migration involves refactoring the tests
to use the unit testing framework instead of reftable's test
framework and renaming the tests according to unit-tests' naming
conventions.
Also, move strbuf_add_void() and noop_flush() from
reftable/test_framework.c to the ported test. This is because
both these functions are used in the merged tests and
reftable/test_framework.{c, h} is not #included in the ported test.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
builtin/push: call set_refspecs after validating remote
When an end-user runs "git push" with an empty string for the remote
repository name, e.g.
$ git push '' main
"git push" fails with a BUG(). Even though this is a nonsense request
that we want to fail, we shouldn't hit a BUG(). Instead we want to give
a sensible error message, e.g., 'bad repository'".
This is because since 9badf97c42 (remote: allow resetting url list,
2024-06-14), we reset the remote URL if the provided URL is empty. When
a user of 'remotes_remote_get' tries to fetch a remote with an empty
repo name, the function initializes the remote via 'make_remote'. But
the remote is still not a valid remote, since the URL is empty, so it
tries to add the URL alias using 'add_url_alias'. This in-turn will call
'add_url', but since the URL is empty we call 'strvec_clear' on the
`remote->url`. Back in 'remotes_remote_get', we again check if the
remote is valid, which fails, so we return 'NULL' for the 'struct
remote *' value.
The 'builtin/push.c' code, calls 'set_refspecs' before validating the
remote. This worked with empty repo names earlier since we would get a
remote, albeit with an empty URL. With the new changes, we get a 'NULL'
remote value, this causes the check for remote to fail and raises the
BUG in 'set_refspecs'.
Do a simple fix by doing remote validation first. Also add a test to
validate the bug fix. With this, we can also now directly pass remote to
'set_refspecs' instead of it trying to lazily obtain it.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Piotr Szlazak [Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:36:48 +0000 (08:36 +0000)]
doc: update http.cookieFile with in-memory cookie processing
Documentation only mentions how to read cookies from the given file
and how to save them to the file using http.saveCookies.
But underlying libcURL allows the HTTP cookies used only in memory;
cookies from the server will be accepted and sent back in successive
requests within same connection, by using an empty string as the
filename. Document this.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Szlazak <piotr.szlazak@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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