Harmen Stoppels [Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:38:17 +0000 (17:38 +0000)]
rebase: make warning less passive aggressive
When you run `git rebase --continue` when no rebase is in progress, git
outputs `fatal: No rebase in progress?` which is not a question but a
statement. Make it appear as a statement, and use lowercase to align
with error message style.
Signed-off-by: Harmen Stoppels <me@harmenstoppels.nl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-rev-parse(1) manpage is completely off with respect to the
command-line description syntax with badly formatted placeholders and
malformed alternatives.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Dragan Simic [Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:22:51 +0000 (23:22 +0100)]
documentation: send-email: use camel case consistently
Correct a few random "sendemail.*" configuration parameter names in the
documentation that, for some unknown reason and contrary to the expected,
didn't use camel case format.
The majority of the corrections are straightforward, by using camel case
to denote boundaries of the individual words that, stringed together, make
up configuration parameter names. A couple of abbreviations found in some
of the corrected configuration parameter names present some exceptions,
which are described in detail below.
First, there's "SSL" as the abbreviation for "Secure Sockets Layer". [1]
As such, it's written using all uppercase letters, which is pretty much the
general rule for making abbreviations, although with certain exceptions.
Second, there's "Cc" as the abbreviation for "carbon copy", which is another
exception. As the acronym for "carbon copy", "cc" (mind the all lowercase
letters) stems from the rather old times when, literally, carbon copies were
made. [2] Therefore, using "CC" (mind the all uppercase letters) or "cc"
(mind the all lowercase letters) would be technically correct in the email
domain, as the abbreviation or as mentioned in RFC2076, [3] respectively, but
the age of email has established "Cc" (mind the mixed uppercase and lowercase
letters) as some kind of de facto standard. [1][4][5] Moreover, some of the
git utilities, primarily git-send-email(1), already refer to making email
carbon copies as specifying "Cc:" email headers. As a result, "Cc" becomes
one of the exceptions to the general rule for making abbreviations.
git-difftool--helper: honor `--trust-exit-code` with `--dir-diff`
The `--trust-exit-code` option for git-diff-tool(1) was introduced via 2b52123fcf (difftool: add support for --trust-exit-code, 2014-10-26).
When set, it makes us return the exit code of the invoked diff tool when
diffing multiple files. This patch didn't change the code path where
`--dir-diff` was passed because we already returned the exit code of the
diff tool unconditionally in that case.
This was changed a month later via c41d3fedd8 (difftool--helper: add
explicit exit statement, 2014-11-20), where an explicit `exit 0` was
added to the end of git-difftool--helper.sh. While the stated intent of
that commit was merely a cleanup, it had the consequence that we now
to ignore the exit code of the diff tool when `--dir-diff` was set. This
change in behaviour is thus very likely an unintended side effect of
this patch.
Now there are two ways to fix this:
- We can either restore the original behaviour, which unconditionally
returned the exit code of the diffing tool when `--dir-diff` is
passed.
- Or we can make the `--dir-diff` case respect the `--trust-exit-code`
flag.
The fact that we have been ignoring exit codes for 7 years by now makes
me rather lean towards the latter option. Furthermore, respecting the
flag in one case but not the other would needlessly make the user
interface more complex.
Fix the bug so that we also honor `--trust-exit-code` for dir diffs and
adjust the documentation accordingly.
Reported-by: Jean-Rémy Falleri <jr.falleri@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Tue, 20 Feb 2024 01:09:36 +0000 (20:09 -0500)]
trailer: fix comment/cut-line regression with opts->no_divider
Commit 97e9d0b78a (trailer: find the end of the log message, 2023-10-20)
combined two code paths for finding the end of the log message. For the
"no_divider" case, we used to use find_trailer_end(), and that has now
been rolled into find_end_of_log_message(). But there's a regression;
that function returns early when no_divider is set, returning the whole
string.
That's not how find_trailer_end() behaved. Although it did skip the
"---" processing (which is what "no_divider" is meant to do), we should
still respect ignored_log_message_bytes(), which covers things like
comments, "commit -v" cut lines, and so on.
The bug is actually in the interpret-trailers command, but the obvious
way to experience it is by running "commit -v" with a "--trailer"
option. The new trailer will be added at the end of the verbose diff,
rather than before it (and consequently will be ignored entirely, since
everything after the diff's intro scissors line is thrown away).
I've added two tests here: one for interpret-trailers directly, which
shows the bug via the parsing routines, and one for "commit -v".
The fix itself is pretty simple: instead of returning early, no_divider
just skips the "---" handling but still calls ignored_log_message_bytes().
Reported-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Julio Bacellari [Sun, 18 Feb 2024 03:02:59 +0000 (05:02 +0200)]
doc: remove outdated information about interactive.singleKey
The Perl implementation of add --interactive was removed in commit [1].
Additionally, the interactive.singleKey setting is no longer silently
ignored. The internal implementation of ReadKey [2] displays a warning
if the platform is unsupported.
[1] 20b813d7d (add: remove "add.interactive.useBuiltin" & Perl "git add--interactive", 2023-02-06)
[2] a5e46e6b0 (terminal: add a new function to read a single keystroke, 2020-01-14)
Signed-off-by: Julio Bacellari <julio.bacel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:58:14 +0000 (23:58 -0500)]
t0303: check that helper_test_clean removes all credentials
Our lib-credential.sh library comes with a "clean" function that removes
all of the credentials used in its tests (to avoid leaving cruft in
system credential storage). But it's easy to add a test that uses a new
credential but forget to add it to the clean function. E.g., the case
fixed by 83e6eb7d7a (t/lib-credential: clean additional credential,
2024-02-15).
We should be able to catch this automatically, but it's a little tricky.
We can't just compare the contents of the helper's storage before and
after the test run, because there isn't a way to ask a helper to dump
all of its storage. And in most cases we don't have direct access to the
underlying storage (since the whole point of the helper is to abstract
that away). We can work around that by using our own "store" helper,
since we can directly inspect its state by looking at its on-disk file.
But there's a catch: the "store" helper doesn't support features like
caching or expiration, so using it naively fails tests (and skipping
those tests would give us incomplete coverage). Implementing all of
those features would be non-trivial. But we can hack around that by
overriding the "check" function used by the tests to turn most requests
into noop success (except for "approve" requests, which actually store
things).
And then at the end we can check that running the "clean" function takes
us back to an empty state.
Note that because we've skipped any tests that erase credentials
(because of our noop check function), the state we see at cleanup time
may be larger than it would be normally. That's OK. The point of the
clean function is to clean up any cruft we _might_ have left in place,
so we're just being doubly thorough.
The way this is bolted onto t0303 feels a little messy. But it's really
the best place to do it, because then we know that it is running the
exact sequence of tests that we'd use for testing a real external
helper. In a normal run of "make test" it currently does nothing (the
idea is that you run it manually after pointing it at some helper
program). But now with this patch, "make test" will sanity-check the
script itself.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
M Hickford [Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:40:58 +0000 (20:40 +0000)]
libsecret: retrieve empty password
Since 0ce02e2f (credential/libsecret: store new attributes, 2023-06-16)
a test that stores empty username and password fails when
t0303-credential-external.sh is run with
GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER=libsecret.
Retrieve empty password carefully. This fixes test:
ok 14 - helper (libsecret) can store empty username
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:50:07 +0000 (10:50 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ps/reftable-backend' into ps/reflog-list
* ps/reftable-backend:
refs/reftable: fix leak when copying reflog fails
ci: add jobs to test with the reftable backend
refs: introduce reftable backend
mergetools: vimdiff: use correct tool's name when reading mergetool config
The /mergetools/vimdiff script, which handles both vimdiff, nvimdiff
and gvimdiff mergetools (the latter 2 simply source the vimdiff script), has a
function merge_cmd() which read the layout variable from git config, and it
would always read the value of mergetool.**vimdiff**.layout, instead of the
mergetool being currently used (vimdiff or nvimdiff or gvimdiff).
It looks like in 7b5cf8be18 (vimdiff: add tool documentation, 2022-03-30),
we explained the current behavior in Documentation/config/mergetool.txt:
```
mergetool.vimdiff.layout::
The vimdiff backend uses this variable to control how its split
windows look like. Applies even if you are using Neovim (`nvim`) or
gVim (`gvim`) as the merge tool. See BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS section
```
which makes sense why it's explained this way - the vimdiff backend is used by
gvim and nvim. But the mergetool's configuration should be separate for each tool,
and indeed that's confirmed in same commit at Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.txt:
```
Variants
Instead of `--tool=vimdiff`, you can also use one of these other variants:
* `--tool=gvimdiff`, to open gVim instead of Vim.
* `--tool=nvimdiff`, to open Neovim instead of Vim.
When using these variants, in order to specify a custom layout you will have to
set configuration variables `mergetool.gvimdiff.layout` and
`mergetool.nvimdiff.layout` instead of `mergetool.vimdiff.layout`
```
So it looks like we just forgot to update the 1 part of the vimdiff script
that read the config variable. Cheers.
Though, for backward compatibility, I've kept the mergetool.vimdiff
fallback, so that people who unknowingly relied on it, won't have their
setup broken now.
Signed-off-by: Kipras Melnikovas <kipras@kipras.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teng Long [Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:04:30 +0000 (21:04 +0800)]
l10n: zh_CN: for git 2.44 rounds
In addition to the localized translation in 2.44, for zh_CN, we have
uniformly modified the translation of the word "commit-graph" to make it
more consistent with language usage habits.
Beat Bolli [Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:10:46 +0000 (18:10 +0100)]
completion: use awk for filtering the config entries
Commits 1e0ee4087e (completion: add and use
__git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section, 2024-02-10) and 6e32f718ff (completion: add and use
__git_compute_second_level_config_vars_for_section, 2024-02-10)
introduced new helpers for config completion.
Both helpers use a pipeline of grep and awk to filter the list of config
entries. awk is perfectly capable of filtering, so let's eliminate the
grep process and move the filtering into the awk script.
The "-E" grep option (extended syntax) was not necessary, as $section is
a single word.
While at it, wrap the over-long lines to make them more readable.
Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Bo Anderson [Thu, 15 Feb 2024 01:03:56 +0000 (01:03 +0000)]
t/lib-credential: clean additional credential
71201ab0e5 (t/lib-credential.sh: ensure credential helpers handle long
headers, 2023-05-01) added a test which stores credentials with the host
victim.example.com but this was never cleaned up, leaving residual data
in the credential store after running the tests.
Add a cleanup call for this credential to resolve this issue.
Signed-off-by: Bo Anderson <mail@boanderson.me> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t7003: ensure filter-branch prunes reflogs with the reftable backend
In t7003 we conditionally check whether the reflog for branches pruned
by git-filter-branch(1) get deleted based on whether or not we use the
"files" backend. Same as with the preceding commit, this condition was
added because in its initial iteration the "reftable" backend did not
delete reflogs when their corresponding ref was deleted. Since then, the
backend has been aligned to behave the same as the "files" backend
though, which makes this check unnecessary.
Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t2011: exercise D/F conflicts with HEAD with the reftable backend
Some of the tests in t2011 exercise whether it is possible to move away
from a symbolic HEAD ref whose target ref has a directory-file conflict
with another, preexisting ref. These tests don't use git-symbolic-ref(1)
but manually write HEAD. This is supposedly done to avoid using logic
that we're about to exercise, but it makes it impossible to verify
whether the logic also works for ref backends other than "files".
Refactor the code to use git-symbolic-ref(1) instead so that the tests
work with the "reftable" backend, as well. We already have lots of tests
in t1404 that ensure that both git-update-ref(1) and git-symbolic-ref(1)
work in such a scenario, so it should be safe to rely on it here.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 5e00514745 (t1405: explictly delete reflogs for reftable, 2022-01-31)
we have added a test that explicitly deletes the reflog when not using
the "files" backend. This was required because back then, the "reftable"
backend didn't yet delete reflogs when deleting their corresponding
branches, and thus subsequent tests would fail because some unexpected
reflogs still exist.
The "reftable" backend was eventually changed though so that it behaves
the same as the "files" backend and deletes reflogs when deleting refs.
This was done to make the "reftable" backend behave like the "files"
backend as closely as possible so that it can act as a drop-in
replacement.
The cleanup-style test is thus not required anymore. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t1404: make D/F conflict tests compatible with reftable backend
Some of the tests in t1404 exercise whether Git correctly aborts
transactions when there is a directory/file conflict with ref names.
While these tests are all marked to require the "files" backend, they do
in fact apply to the "reftable" backend as well.
This may not make much sense on the surface: D/F conflicts only exist
because the "files" backend uses the filesystem to store loose refs, and
thus the restriction theoretically shouldn't apply to the "reftable"
backend. But for now, the "reftable" backend artificially restricts the
creation of such conflicting refs so that it is a drop-in replacement
for the "files" backend. This also ensures that the "reftable" backend
can easily be used on the server side without causing issues for clients
which only know to use the "files" backend.
The only difference between the "files" and "reftable" backends is a
slightly different error message. Adapt the tests to accomodate for this
difference and remove the REFFILES prerequisite so that we start testing
with both backends.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t1400: exercise reflog with gaps with reftable backend
In t1400, we have a test that exercises whether we print a warning
message as expected when the reflog contains entries which have a gap
between the old entry's new object ID and the new entry's old object ID.
While the logic should apply to all ref backends, the test setup writes
into `.git/logs` directly and is thus "files"-backend specific.
Refactor the test to instead use `git reflog delete` to create the gap
and drop the REFFILES prerequisite.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t0410: convert tests to use DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT prereq
In t0410 we have two tests which exercise how partial clones behave in
the context of a repository with extensions. These tests are marked to
require a repository using SHA1 and the "files" backend because we
explicitly set the repository format version to 0, and setting up either
the "objectFormat" or "refStorage" extensions requires a repository
format version of 1.
We have recently introduced a new DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT prerequisite.
Despite capturing the intent more directly, it also has the added
benefit that it can easily be extended in the future in case we add new
repository extensions. Adapt the tests to use it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jiang Xin [Thu, 15 Feb 2024 01:48:25 +0000 (09:48 +0800)]
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:git/git
* 'master' of github.com:git/git: (51 commits)
Hopefully the last batch of fixes before 2.44 final
Git 2.43.2
A few more fixes before -rc1
write-or-die: fix the polarity of GIT_FLUSH environment variable
A few more topics before -rc1
completion: add and use __git_compute_second_level_config_vars_for_section
completion: add and use __git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section
completion: complete 'submodule.*' config variables
completion: add space after config variable names also in Bash 3
receive-pack: use find_commit_header() in check_nonce()
ci(linux32): add a note about Actions that must not be updated
ci: bump remaining outdated Actions versions
unit-tests: do show relative file paths on non-Windows, too
receive-pack: use find_commit_header() in check_cert_push_options()
prune: mark rebase autostash and orig-head as reachable
sequencer: unset GIT_CHERRY_PICK_HELP for 'exec' commands
ref-filter.c: sort formatted dates by byte value
ssh signing: signal an error with a negative return value
bisect: document command line arguments for "bisect start"
bisect: document "terms" subcommand more fully
...
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:36:06 +0000 (15:36 -0800)]
Merge branch 'pb/complete-config'
The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to
complete configuration variable names better.
* pb/complete-config:
completion: add and use __git_compute_second_level_config_vars_for_section
completion: add and use __git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section
completion: complete 'submodule.*' config variables
completion: add space after config variable names also in Bash 3
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:36:05 +0000 (15:36 -0800)]
Merge branch 'rs/receive-pack-remove-find-header'
Code simplification.
* rs/receive-pack-remove-find-header:
receive-pack: use find_commit_header() in check_nonce()
receive-pack: use find_commit_header() in check_cert_push_options()
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:36:05 +0000 (15:36 -0800)]
Merge branch 'pw/gc-during-rebase'
The sequencer machinery does not use the ref API and instead
records names of certain objects it needs for its correct operation
in temporary files, which makes these objects susceptible to loss
by garbage collection. These temporary files have been added as
starting points for reachability analysis to fix this.
* pw/gc-during-rebase:
prune: mark rebase autostash and orig-head as reachable
Chandra Pratap [Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:50:48 +0000 (17:50 +0000)]
t9146: replace test -d/-e/-f with appropriate test_path_is_* function
The helper functions test_path_is_* provide better debugging
information than test -d/-e/-f.
Replace "if ! test -d then <error message>" and "test -d" with
"test_path_is_dir" at places where we check for existent directories.
Replace "test -f" with "test_path_is_file" at places where we check
for existent files.
Replace "test ! -e" and "if test -d then <error message>" with
"test_path_is_missing" where we check for non-existent directories.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:44:01 +0000 (10:44 -0800)]
doc: add shortcut to "am --whitespace=<action>"
We refer readers of "git am --help" to "git apply --help" for many
options that are passed through, and most of them are simple
booleans, but --whitespace takes from a set of actions whose names
may slip users' minds. Give a list of them in "git am --help" to
reduce one level of redirection only to find out what they are.
In the helper function to parse the available options, there was a
helpful comment reminding the developer to update list of <action>s
in the completion script. Mention the two documentation pages there
as well.
Christian Couder [Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:25:13 +0000 (15:25 +0100)]
rev-list: allow missing tips with --missing=[print|allow*]
In 9830926c7d (rev-list: add commit object support in `--missing`
option, 2023-10-27) we fixed the `--missing` option in `git rev-list`
so that it works with with missing commits, not just blobs/trees.
Unfortunately, such a command would still fail with a "fatal: bad
object <oid>" if it is passed a missing commit, blob or tree as an
argument (before the rev walking even begins).
When such a command is used to find the dependencies of some objects,
for example the dependencies of quarantined objects (see the
"QUARANTINE ENVIRONMENT" section in the git-receive-pack(1)
documentation), it would be better if the command would instead
consider such missing objects, especially commits, in the same way as
other missing objects.
If, for example `--missing=print` is used, it would be nice for some
use cases if the missing tips passed as arguments were reported in
the same way as other missing objects instead of the command just
failing.
We could introduce a new option to make it work like this, but most
users are likely to prefer the command to have this behavior as the
default one. Introducing a new option would require another dumb loop
to look for that option early, which isn't nice.
Also we made `git rev-list` work with missing commits very recently
and the command is most often passed commits as arguments. So let's
consider this as a bug fix related to these recent changes.
While at it let's add a NEEDSWORK comment to say that we should get
rid of the existing ugly dumb loops that parse the
`--exclude-promisor-objects` and `--missing=...` options early.
Helped-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Christian Couder [Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:25:11 +0000 (15:25 +0100)]
oidset: refactor oidset_insert_from_set()
In a following commit, we will need to add all the oids from a set into
another set. In "list-objects-filter.c", there is already a static
function called add_all() to do that.
Let's rename this function oidset_insert_from_set() and move it into
oidset.{c,h} to make it generally available.
While at it, let's remove a useless `!= NULL`.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Christian Couder [Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:25:10 +0000 (15:25 +0100)]
revision: clarify a 'return NULL' in get_reference()
When we know a pointer variable is NULL, it's clearer to
explicitly return NULL than to return that variable.
In get_reference(), when 'object' is NULL, we already return NULL
when 'revs->exclude_promisor_objects && is_promisor_object(oid)' is
true, but we return 'object' when 'revs->ignore_missing' is true.
Let's make the code clearer and more uniform by also explicitly
returning NULL when 'revs->ignore_missing' is true.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jiang Xin [Wed, 14 Feb 2024 08:46:41 +0000 (16:46 +0800)]
diff: mark param1 and param2 as placeholders
Some l10n translators translated the parameters "files", "param1" and
"param2" in the following message:
"synonym for --dirstat=files,param1,param2..."
Translating "param1" and "param2" is OK, but changing the parameter
"files" is wrong. The parameters that are not meant to be used verbatim
should be marked as placeholders, but the verbatim parameter not marked
as a placeholder should be left as is.
This change is a complement for commit 51e846e673 (doc: enforce
placeholders in documentation, 2023-12-25).
With the help of Jean-Noël,some parameter combinations in one
placeholder (e.g. "<param1,param2>...") are splited into seperate
placeholders.
Helped-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:31:11 +0000 (14:31 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jc/unit-tests-make-relative-fix'
The mechanism to report the filename in the source code, used by
the unit-test machinery, assumed that the compiler expanded __FILE__
to the path to the source given to the $(CC), but some compilers
give full path, breaking the output. This has been corrected.
* jc/unit-tests-make-relative-fix:
unit-tests: do show relative file paths on non-Windows, too
The Perl version of the add -i/-p commands has been removed since 20b813d (add: remove "add.interactive.useBuiltin" & Perl "git
add--interactive", 2023-02-07)
Therefore, Perl prerequisite in the test scripts which use the patch
mode functionality is not neccessary.
Signed-off-by: Ghanshyam Thakkar <shyamthakkar001@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, (restore, checkout, reset) commands correctly take '@' as a
synonym for 'HEAD'. However, in patch mode different prompts/messages
are given on command line due to patch mode machinery not considering
'@' to be a synonym for 'HEAD' due to literal string comparison with
the word 'HEAD', and therefore assigning patch_mode_($command)_nothead
and triggering reverse mode (-R in diff-index). The NEEDSWORK comment
suggested comparing commit objects to get around this. However, doing
so would also take a non-checked out branch pointing to the same commit
as HEAD, as HEAD. This would cause confusion to the user.
Therefore, after parsing '@', replace it with 'HEAD' as reasonably
early as possible. This also solves another problem of disparity
between 'git checkout HEAD' and 'git checkout @' (latter detaches at
the HEAD commit and the former does not).
Trade-offs:
- Some of the errors would show the revision argument as 'HEAD' when
given '@'. This should be fine, as most users who probably use '@'
would be aware that it is a shortcut for 'HEAD' and most probably
used to use 'HEAD'. There is also relevant documentation in
'gitrevisions' manpage about '@' being the shortcut for 'HEAD'. Also,
the simplicity of the solution far outweighs this cost.
- Consider '@' as a shortcut for 'HEAD' even if 'refs/heads/@' exists
at a different commit. Naming a branch '@' is an obvious foot-gun and
many existing commands already take '@' for 'HEAD' even if
'refs/heads/@' exists at a different commit or does not exist at all
(e.g. 'git log @', 'git push origin @' etc.). Therefore this is an
existing assumption and should not be a problem.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ghanshyam Thakkar <shyamthakkar001@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 8 Feb 2024 23:17:31 +0000 (15:17 -0800)]
git: --no-lazy-fetch option
Sometimes, especially during tests of low level machinery, it is
handy to have a way to disable lazy fetching of objects. This
allows us to say, for example, "git cat-file -e <object-name>", to
see if the object is locally available.
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:48:15 +0000 (11:48 -0800)]
write-or-die: fix the polarity of GIT_FLUSH environment variable
When GIT_FLUSH is set to 1, true, on, yes, then we should disable
skip_stdout_flush, but the conversion somehow did the opposite.
With the understanding of the original motivation behind "skip" in 06f59e9f (Don't fflush(stdout) when it's not helpful, 2007-06-29),
we can sympathize with the current naming (we wanted to avoid
useless flushing of stdout by default, with an escape hatch to
always flush), but it is still not a good excuse.
Retire the "skip_stdout_flush" variable and replace it with "flush_stdout"
that tells if we do or do not want to run fflush().
Reported-by: Xiaoguang WANG <wxiaoguang@gmail.com> Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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