The convention to calling into built-in command implementation has
been updated to pass the repository, if known, together with the
prefix value.
* jc/pass-repo-to-builtins:
add: pass in repo variable instead of global the_repository
builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY for those without the_repository
builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE from builtin.h
builtin: add a repository parameter for builtin functions
Instead of including USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE by default on every
builtin, remove it from builtin.h and add it to all the builtins that
include builtin.h (by definition, that means all builtins/*.c).
Also, remove the include statement for repository.h since it gets
brought in through builtin.h.
The next step will be to migrate each builtin
from having to use the_repository.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to reduce the usage of the global the_repository, add a
parameter to builtin functions that will get passed a repository
variable.
This commit uses UNUSED on most of the builtin functions, as subsequent
commits will modify the actual builtins to pass the repository parameter
down.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our error reporting routines append a trailing newline, and the strings
we pass to them should not include them (otherwise we get an extra blank
line after the message).
These cases were all found by looking at the results of:
git grep -P '[^_](error|error_errno|warning|die|die_errno)\(.*\\n"[,)]' '*.c'
Note that we _do_ sometimes include a newline in the middle of such
messages, to create multiline output (hence our grep matching "," or ")"
after we see the newline, so we know we're at the end of the string).
It's possible that one or more of these cases could intentionally be
including a blank line at the end, but having looked at them all
manually, I think these are all just mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
More trace2 events at key points on push and fetch code paths have
been added.
* js/fetch-push-trace2-annotation:
send-pack: add new tracing regions for push
fetch: add top-level trace2 regions
trace2: implement trace2_printf() for event target
At $DAYJOB we experienced some slow fetch operations and needed some
additional data to help diagnose the issue.
Add top-level trace2 regions for the various modes of operation of
`git-fetch`. None of these regions are in recursive code, so any
enclosed trace messages should only see their nesting level increase by
one.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the `--atomic` flag, we use a single ref transaction to commit all
ref updates in git-fetch(1). The lifetime of transactions is somewhat
weird: while `ref_transaction_abort()` will free the transaction, a call
to `ref_transaction_commit()` won't. We thus have to manually free the
transaction in the successful case.
Adapt the code to free the transaction in the exit path to plug the
resulting memory leak. As `ref_transaction_abort()` already freed the
transaction for us, we have to unset the transaction when we hit that
code path to not cause a double free.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a parameter to each_ref_fn so that callers to the ref APIs
that use this function as a callback can have acess to the
unresolved value of a symbolic ref.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git update-ref --stdin" learned to handle transactional updates of
symbolic-refs.
* kn/update-ref-symref:
update-ref: add support for 'symref-update' command
reftable: pick either 'oid' or 'target' for new updates
update-ref: add support for 'symref-create' command
update-ref: add support for 'symref-delete' command
update-ref: add support for 'symref-verify' command
refs: specify error for regular refs with `old_target`
refs: create and use `ref_update_expects_existing_old_ref()`
Building with "-Werror -Wwrite-strings" is now supported.
* ps/no-writable-strings: (27 commits)
config.mak.dev: enable `-Wwrite-strings` warning
builtin/merge: always store allocated strings in `pull_twohead`
builtin/rebase: always store allocated string in `options.strategy`
builtin/rebase: do not assign default backend to non-constant field
imap-send: fix leaking memory in `imap_server_conf`
imap-send: drop global `imap_server_conf` variable
mailmap: always store allocated strings in mailmap blob
revision: always store allocated strings in output encoding
remote-curl: avoid assigning string constant to non-const variable
send-pack: always allocate receive status
parse-options: cast long name for OPTION_ALIAS
http: do not assign string constant to non-const field
compat/win32: fix const-correctness with string constants
pretty: add casts for decoration option pointers
object-file: make `buf` parameter of `index_mem()` a constant
object-file: mark cached object buffers as const
ident: add casts for fallback name and GECOS
entry: refactor how we remove items for delayed checkouts
line-log: always allocate the output prefix
line-log: stop assigning string constant to file parent buffer
...
We have a global tag refspec structure that is used by both git-clone(1)
and git-fetch(1). Initialization of the structure will break once we
enable `-Wwrite-strings`, even though the breakage is harmless. While we
could just add casts, the structure isn't really required in the first
place as we can simply initialize the structures at the respective
callsites.
Refactor the code accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new command 'symref-delete' to allow deletions of symbolic refs in
a transaction via the '--stdin' mode of the 'git-update-ref' command.
The 'symref-delete' command can, when given an <old-target>, delete the
provided <ref> only when it points to <old-target>.
This command is only compatible with the 'no-deref' mode because we
optionally want to check the 'old_target' of the ref being deleted.
De-referencing a symbolic ref would provide a regular ref and we already
have the 'delete' command for regular refs.
While users can also use 'git symbolic-ref -d' to delete symbolic refs,
the 'symref-delete' command in 'git-update-ref' allows users to do so
within a transaction, which promises atomicity of the operation and can
be batched with other commands.
When no 'old_target' is provided it can also delete regular refs,
similar to how the 'delete' command can delete symrefs when no 'old_oid'
is provided.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Further clean-up the refs subsystem to stop relying on
the_repository, and instead use the repository associated to the
ref_store object.
* ps/refs-without-the-repository-updates:
refs/packed: remove references to `the_hash_algo`
refs/files: remove references to `the_hash_algo`
refs/files: use correct repository
refs: remove `dwim_log()`
refs: drop `git_default_branch_name()`
refs: pass repo when peeling objects
refs: move object peeling into "object.c"
refs: pass ref store when detecting dangling symrefs
refs: convert iteration over replace refs to accept ref store
refs: retrieve worktree ref stores via associated repository
refs: refactor `resolve_gitlink_ref()` to accept a repository
refs: pass repo when retrieving submodule ref store
refs: track ref stores via strmap
refs: implement releasing ref storages
refs: rename `init_db` callback to avoid confusion
refs: adjust names for `init` and `init_db` callbacks
* kn/ref-transaction-symref:
refs: remove `create_symref` and associated dead code
refs: rename `refs_create_symref()` to `refs_update_symref()`
refs: use transaction in `refs_create_symref()`
refs: add support for transactional symref updates
refs: move `original_update_refname` to 'refs.c'
refs: support symrefs in 'reference-transaction' hook
files-backend: extract out `create_symref_lock()`
refs: accept symref values in `ref_transaction_update()`
Updates to symbolic refs can now be made as a part of ref
transaction.
* kn/ref-transaction-symref:
refs: remove `create_symref` and associated dead code
refs: rename `refs_create_symref()` to `refs_update_symref()`
refs: use transaction in `refs_create_symref()`
refs: add support for transactional symref updates
refs: move `original_update_refname` to 'refs.c'
refs: support symrefs in 'reference-transaction' hook
files-backend: extract out `create_symref_lock()`
refs: accept symref values in `ref_transaction_update()`
Both `warn_dangling_symref()` and `warn_dangling_symrefs()` derive the
ref store via `the_repository`. Adapt them to instead take in the ref
store as a parameter. While at it, rename the functions to have a `ref_`
prefix to align them with other functions that take a ref store.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Apply the rules that rewrite callers of "refs" interfaces to explicitly
pass `struct ref_store`. The resulting patch has been applied with the
`--whitespace=fix` option.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `ref_transaction_update()` obtains ref information and
flags to create a `ref_update` and add them to the transaction at hand.
To extend symref support in transactions, we need to also accept the
old and new ref targets and process it. This commit adds the required
parameters to the function and modifies all call sites.
The two parameters added are `new_target` and `old_target`. The
`new_target` is used to denote what the reference should point to when
the transaction is applied. Some functions allow this parameter to be
NULL, meaning that the reference is not changed.
The `old_target` denotes the value the reference must have before the
update. Some functions allow this parameter to be NULL, meaning that the
old value of the reference is not checked.
We also update the internal function `ref_transaction_add_update()`
similarly to take the two new parameters.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A config parser callback function fell through instead of returning
after recognising and processing a variable, wasting cycles, which
has been corrected.
* ds/fetch-config-parse-microfix:
fetch: return when parsing submodule.recurse
When parsing config keys, the normal pattern is to return 0 after
completing the logic for a specific config key, since no other key will
match. One instance, for "submodule.recurse", was missing this case in
builtin/fetch.c.
This is a very minor change, and will have minimal impact to
performance. This particular block was edited recently in 56e8bb4fb4
(fetch: use `fetch_config` to store "fetch.recurseSubmodules" value,
2023-05-17), which led to some hesitation that perhaps this omission was
on purpose.
However, no later cases within git_fetch_config() will match the key if
equal to "submodule.recurse" and neither will any key matches within the
catch-all git_default_config().
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some functions in Git's source code follow the convention that returning
a negative value indicates a fatal error, e.g. repository corruption.
Let's use this convention in `repo_in_merge_bases()` to report when one
of the specified commits is missing (i.e. when `repo_parse_commit()`
reports an error).
Also adjust the callers of `repo_in_merge_bases()` to handle such
negative return values.
Note: As of this patch, errors are returned only if any of the specified
merge heads is missing. Over the course of the next patches, missing
commits will also be reported by the `paint_down_to_common()` function,
which is called by `repo_in_merge_bases_many()`, and those errors will
be properly propagated back to the caller at that stage.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using strncmp() and strlen() to check whether a string starts with
another one requires repeating the prefix candidate. Use starts_with()
instead, which reduces repetition and is more readable.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch" learned to pay attention to "fetch.all" configuration
variable, which pretends as if "--all" was passed from the command
line when no remote parameter was given.
* tb/fetch-all-configuration:
fetch: add new config option fetch.all
Remove unused header "#include".
* en/header-cleanup:
treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
treewide: add direct includes currently only pulled in transitively
trace2/tr2_tls.h: remove unnecessary include
submodule-config.h: remove unnecessary include
pkt-line.h: remove unnecessary include
line-log.h: remove unnecessary include
http.h: remove unnecessary include
fsmonitor--daemon.h: remove unnecessary includes
blame.h: remove unnecessary includes
archive.h: remove unnecessary include
treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
treewide: remove unnecessary includes from header files
Introduce a boolean configuration option fetch.all which allows to
fetch all available remotes by default. The config option can be
overridden by explicitly specifying a remote or by using --no-all.
The behavior for --all is unchanged and calling git-fetch with --all
and a remote will still result in an error.
Additionally, describe the configuration variable in the config
documentation and implement new tests to cover the expected behavior.
Also add --no-all to the command-line documentation of git-fetch.
Signed-off-by: Tamino Bauknecht <dev@tb6.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each of these were checked with
gcc -E -I. ${SOURCE_FILE} | grep ${HEADER_FILE}
to ensure that removing the direct inclusion of the header actually
resulted in that header no longer being included at all (i.e. that
no other header pulled it in transitively).
...except for a few cases where we verified that although the header
was brought in transitively, nothing from it was directly used in
that source file. These cases were:
* builtin/credential-cache.c
* builtin/pull.c
* builtin/send-pack.c
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If an error occurs during an atomic fetch, a redundant error message
will appear at the end of do_fetch(). It was introduced in b3a804663c
(fetch: make `--atomic` flag cover backfilling of tags, 2022-02-17).
Because a failure message is displayed before setting retcode in the
function do_fetch(), calling error() on the err message at the end of
this function may result in redundant or empty error message to be
displayed.
We can remove the redundant error() function, because we know that
the function ref_transaction_abort() never fails. While we can find a
common pattern for calling ref_transaction_abort() by running command
"git grep -A1 ref_transaction_abort", e.g.:
if (ref_transaction_abort(transaction, &error))
error("abort: %s", error.buf);
Following this pattern, we can tolerate the return value of the function
ref_transaction_abort() being changed in the future. We also delay the
output of the err message to the end of do_fetch() to reduce redundant
code. With these changes, the test case "fetch porcelain output
(atomic)" in t5574 will also be fixed.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unused parameters to functions are marked as such, and/or removed,
in order to bring us closer to -Wunused-parameter clean.
* jk/unused-post-2.42-part2:
parse-options: mark unused parameters in noop callback
interpret-trailers: mark unused "unset" parameters in option callbacks
parse-options: add more BUG_ON() annotations
merge: do not pass unused opt->value parameter
parse-options: mark unused "opt" parameter in callbacks
parse-options: prefer opt->value to globals in callbacks
checkout-index: delay automatic setting of to_tempfile
format-patch: use OPT_STRING_LIST for to/cc options
merge: simplify parsing of "-n" option
merge: make xopts a strvec
We have several parse-options callbacks that ignore their "opt"
parameters entirely. This is a little unusual, as we'd normally put the
result of the parsing into opt->value. In the case of these callbacks,
though, they directly manipulate global variables instead (and in
most cases the caller sets opt->value to NULL in the OPT_CALLBACK
declaration).
The immediate symptom we'd like to deal with is that the unused "opt"
variables trigger -Wunused-parameter. But how to fix that is debatable.
One option is to annotate them with UNUSED. But another is to have the
caller pass in the appropriate variable via opt->value, and use it. That
has the benefit of making the callbacks reusable (in theory at least),
and makes it clear from the OPT_CALLBACK declaration which variables
will be affected (doubly so for the cases in builtin/fast-export.c,
where we do set opt->value, but it is completely ignored!).
The slight downside is that we lose type safety, since they're now
passing through void pointers.
I went with the "just use them" approach here. The loss of type safety
is unfortunate, but that is already an issue with most of the other
callbacks. If we want to try to address that, we should do so more
consistently (and this patch would prepare these callbacks for whatever
we choose to do there).
Note that in the cases in builtin/fast-export.c, we are passing
anonymous enums. We'll have to give them names so that we can declare
the appropriate pointer type within the callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since this callback is just trying to collect the set of queued tag
updates, there is no need for it to look at old_oid at all. Mark it as
unused to appease -Wunused-parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command line option parsing for "git clone", "git fetch", and
"git push" have duplicated implementations of parsing "--ipv4" and
"--ipv6" options, by having two OPT_SET_INT() for "ipv4" and "ipv6".
Introduce a new OPT_IPVERSION() macro and use it in these three
commands.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reduce reliance on a global state in the config reading API.
* gc/config-context:
config: pass source to config_parser_event_fn_t
config: add kvi.path, use it to evaluate includes
config.c: remove config_reader from configsets
config: pass kvi to die_bad_number()
trace2: plumb config kvi
config.c: pass ctx with CLI config
config: pass ctx with config files
config.c: pass ctx in configsets
config: add ctx arg to config_fn_t
urlmatch.h: use config_fn_t type
config: inline git_color_default_config
Plumb "struct key_value_info" through all code paths that end in
die_bad_number(), which lets us remove the helper functions that read
analogous values from "struct config_reader". As a result, nothing reads
config_reader.config_kvi any more, so remove that too.
In config.c, this requires changing the signature of
git_configset_get_value() to 'return' "kvi" in an out parameter so that
git_configset_get_<type>() can pass it to git_config_<type>(). Only
numeric types will use "kvi", so for non-numeric types (e.g.
git_configset_get_string()), pass NULL to indicate that the out
parameter isn't needed.
Outside of config.c, config callbacks now need to pass "ctx->kvi" to any
of the git_config_<type>() functions that parse a config string into a
number type. Included is a .cocci patch to make that refactor.
The only exceptional case is builtin/config.c, where git_config_<type>()
is called outside of a config callback (namely, on user-provided input),
so config source information has never been available. In this case,
die_bad_number() defaults to a generic, but perfectly descriptive
message. Let's provide a safe, non-NULL for "kvi" anyway, but make sure
not to change the message.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new "const struct config_context *ctx" arg to config_fn_t to hold
additional information about the config iteration operation.
config_context has a "struct key_value_info kvi" member that holds
metadata about the config source being read (e.g. what kind of config
source it is, the filename, etc). In this series, we're only interested
in .kvi, so we could have just used "struct key_value_info" as an arg,
but config_context makes it possible to add/adjust members in the future
without changing the config_fn_t signature. We could also consider other
ways of organizing the args (e.g. moving the config name and value into
config_context or key_value_info), but in my experiments, the
incremental benefit doesn't justify the added complexity (e.g. a
config_fn_t will sometimes invoke another config_fn_t but with a
different config value).
In subsequent commits, the .kvi member will replace the global "struct
config_reader" in config.c, making config iteration a global-free
operation. It requires much more work for the machinery to provide
meaningful values of .kvi, so for now, merely change the signature and
call sites, pass NULL as a placeholder value, and don't rely on the arg
in any meaningful way.
Most of the changes are performed by
contrib/coccinelle/config_fn_ctx.pending.cocci, which, for every
config_fn_t:
- Modifies the signature to accept "const struct config_context *ctx"
- Passes "ctx" to any inner config_fn_t, if needed
- Adds UNUSED attributes to "ctx", if needed
Most config_fn_t instances are easily identified by seeing if they are
called by the various config functions. Most of the remaining ones are
manually named in the .cocci patch. Manual cleanups are still needed,
but the majority of it is trivial; it's either adjusting config_fn_t
that the .cocci patch didn't catch, or adding forward declarations of
"struct config_context ctx" to make the signatures make sense.
The non-trivial changes are in cases where we are invoking a config_fn_t
outside of config machinery, and we now need to decide what value of
"ctx" to pass. These cases are:
- trace2/tr2_cfg.c:tr2_cfg_set_fl()
This is indirectly called by git_config_set() so that the trace2
machinery can notice the new config values and update its settings
using the tr2 config parsing function, i.e. tr2_cfg_cb().
- builtin/checkout.c:checkout_main()
This calls git_xmerge_config() as a shorthand for parsing a CLI arg.
This might be worth refactoring away in the future, since
git_xmerge_config() can call git_default_config(), which can do much
more than just parsing.
Handle them by creating a KVI_INIT macro that initializes "struct
key_value_info" to a reasonable default, and use that to construct the
"ctx" arg.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The vast majority of files including object-store.h did not need dir.h
nor khash.h. Split the header into two files, and let most just depend
upon object-store-ll.h, while letting the two callers that need it
depend on the full object-store.h.
After this patch:
$ git grep -h include..object-store | sort | uniq -c
2 #include "object-store.h"
129 #include "object-store-ll.h"
Diff best viewed with `--color-moved`.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This also made it clear that several .c files that depended upon path.h
were missing a #include for it; add the missing includes while at it.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since this header showed up in some places besides just #include
statements, update/clean-up/remove those other places as well.
Note that compat/fsmonitor/fsm-path-utils-darwin.c previously got
away with violating the rule that all files must start with an include
of git-compat-util.h (or a short-list of alternate headers that happen
to include it first). This change exposed the violation and caused it
to stop building correctly; fix it by having it include
git-compat-util.h first, as per policy.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the parsed "submodule.fetchJobs" config value into the
`fetch_config` structure. This reduces our reliance on global variables
and further unifies the way we parse the configuration in git-fetch(1).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the parsed "fetch.parallel" config value into the `fetch_config`
structure. This reduces our reliance on global variables and further
unifies the way we parse the configuration in git-fetch(1).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the parsed "fetch.recurseSubmodules" config value into the
`fetch_config` structure. This reduces our reliance on global variables
and further unifies the way we parse the configuration in git-fetch(1).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the parsed "fetch.showForcedUpdaets" config value into the
`fetch_config` structure. This reduces our reliance on global variables
and further unifies the way we parse the configuration in git-fetch(1).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the parsed "fetch.pruneTags" config value into the `fetch_config`
structure. This reduces our reliance on global variables and further
unifies the way we parse the configuration in git-fetch(1).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the parsed "fetch.prune" config value into the `fetch_config`
structure. This reduces our reliance on global variables and further
unifies the way we parse the configuration in git-fetch(1).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `fetch_config` structure currently only has a single member, which
is the `display_format`. We're about extend it to contain all parsed
config values and will thus need it available in most of the code.
Prepare for this change by passing through the `fetch_config` directly
instead of only passing its single member.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Drop the `NULL` check for `remote_ref` in `update_local_ref()`. The
function only has a single caller, and that caller always passes in a
non-`NULL` value.
This fixes a false positive in Coverity.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With 50957937f9 (fetch: introduce `display_format` enum, 2023-05-10), a
new enumeration was introduced to determine the display format that is
to be used by git-fetch(1). The `DISPLAY_FORMAT_UNKNOWN` value isn't
ever used though, and neither do we rely on the explicit `0` value for
initialization anywhere.
Remove the enum value.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch" learned the "--porcelain" option that emits what it did
in a machine-parseable format.
* ps/fetch-output-format:
fetch: introduce machine-parseable "porcelain" output format
fetch: move option related variables into main function
fetch: lift up parsing of "fetch.output" config variable
fetch: introduce `display_format` enum
fetch: refactor calculation of the display table width
fetch: print left-hand side when fetching HEAD:foo
fetch: add a test to exercise invalid output formats
fetch: split out tests for output format
fetch: fix `--no-recurse-submodules` with multi-remote fetches
The output of git-fetch(1) is obviously designed for consumption by
users, only: we neatly columnize data, we abbreviate reference names, we
print neat arrows and we don't provide information about actual object
IDs that have changed. This makes the output format basically unusable
in the context of scripted invocations of git-fetch(1) that want to
learn about the exact changes that the command performs.
Introduce a new machine-parseable "porcelain" output format that is
supposed to fix this shortcoming. This output format is intended to
provide information about every reference that is about to be updated,
the old object ID that the reference has been pointing to and the new
object ID it will be updated to. Furthermore, the output format provides
the same flags as the human-readable format to indicate basic conditions
for each reference update like whether it was a fast-forward update, a
branch deletion, a rejected update or others.
The output format is quite simple:
```
<flag> <old-object-id> <new-object-id> <local-reference>\n
```
We assume two conditions which are generally true:
- The old and new object IDs have fixed known widths and cannot
contain spaces.
- References cannot contain newlines.
With these assumptions, the output format becomes unambiguously
parseable. Furthermore, given that this output is designed to be
consumed by scripts, the machine-readable data is printed to stdout
instead of stderr like the human-readable output is. This is mostly done
so that other data printed to stderr, like error messages or progress
meters, don't interfere with the parseable data.
A notable ommission here is that the output format does not include the
remote from which a reference was fetched, which might be important
information especially in the context of multi-remote fetches. But as
such a format would require us to print the remote for every single
reference update due to parallelizable fetches it feels wasteful for the
most likely usecase, which is when fetching from a single remote.
In a similar spirit, a second restriction is that this cannot be used
with `--recurse-submodules`. This is because any reference updates would
be ambiguous without also printing the repository in which the update
happens.
Considering that both multi-remote and submodule fetches are user-facing
features, using them in conjunction with `--porcelain` that is intended
for scripting purposes is likely not going to be useful in the majority
of cases. With that in mind these restrictions feel acceptable. If
usecases for either of these come up in the future though it is easy
enough to add a new "porcelain-v2" format that adds this information.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
