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Junio C Hamano
0424138d57 Fix bogus error message from merge-recursive error path
This error message should not usually trigger, but the function
make_cache_entry() called by add_cacheinfo() can return early
without calling into refresh_cache_entry() that sets cache_errno.

Also the error message had a wrong function name reported, and
it did not say anything about which path failed either.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-05 15:07:16 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
dc49cd769b Cast 64 bit off_t to 32 bit size_t
Some systems have sizeof(off_t) == 8 while sizeof(size_t) == 4.
This implies that we are able to access and work on files whose
maximum length is around 2^63-1 bytes, but we can only malloc or
mmap somewhat less than 2^32-1 bytes of memory.

On such a system an implicit conversion of off_t to size_t can cause
the size_t to wrap, resulting in unexpected and exciting behavior.
Right now we are working around all gcc warnings generated by the
-Wshorten-64-to-32 option by passing the off_t through xsize_t().

In the future we should make xsize_t on such problematic platforms
detect the wrapping and die if such a file is accessed.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-07 11:15:26 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
78a8d641c1 Add core.symlinks to mark filesystems that do not support symbolic links.
Some file systems that can host git repositories and their working copies
do not support symbolic links. But then if the repository contains a symbolic
link, it is impossible to check out the working copy.

This patch enables partial support of symbolic links so that it is possible
to check out a working copy on such a file system.  A new flag
core.symlinks (which is true by default) can be set to false to indicate
that the filesystem does not support symbolic links. In this case, symbolic
links that exist in the trees are checked out as small plain files, and
checking in modifications of these files preserve the symlink property in
the database (as long as an entry exists in the index).

Of course, this does not magically make symbolic links work on such defective
file systems; hence, this solution does not help if the working copy relies
on that an entry is a real symbolic link.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-02 16:58:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
53bca91a7d index_fd(): pass optional path parameter as hint for blob conversion
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-28 12:00:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
edaec3fbe8 index_fd(): use enum object_type instead of type name string.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-28 12:00:00 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
21666f1aae convert object type handling from a string to a number
We currently have two parallel notation for dealing with object types
in the code: a string and a numerical value.  One of them is obviously
redundent, and the most used one requires more stack space and a bunch
of strcmp() all over the place.

This is an initial step for the removal of the version using a char array
found in object reading code paths.  The patch is unfortunately large but
there is no sane way to split it in smaller parts without breaking the
system.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-27 01:34:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
185c975faa Do not take mode bits from index after type change.
When we do not trust executable bit from lstat(2), we copied
existing ce_mode bits without checking if the filesystem object
is a regular file (which is the only thing we apply the "trust
executable bit" business) nor if the blob in the index is a
regular file (otherwise, we should do the same as registering a
new regular file, which is to default non-executable).

Noticed by Johannes Sixt.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-16 22:56:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2cdf9509df write-cache: do not leak the serialized cache-tree data.
It is not used after getting written, and just is leaking every time
we write the index out.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-11 12:25:16 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
93822c2239 short i/o: fix calls to write to use xwrite or write_in_full
We have a number of badly checked write() calls.  Often we are
expecting write() to write exactly the size we requested or fail,
this fails to handle interrupts or short writes.  Switch to using
the new write_in_full().  Otherwise we at a minimum need to check
for EINTR and EAGAIN, where this is appropriate use xwrite().

Note, the changes to config handling are much larger and handled
in the next patch in the sequence.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-08 15:44:47 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
5fe5c8300d Cleanup read_cache_from error handling.
When I converted the mmap() call to xmmap() I failed to cleanup the
way this routine handles errors and left some crufty code behind.
This is a small cleanup, suggested by Johannes.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-29 11:36:45 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
c4712e4553 Replace mmap with xmmap, better handling MAP_FAILED.
In some cases we did not even bother to check the return value of
mmap() and just assume it worked.  This is bad, because if we are
out of virtual address space the kernel returned MAP_FAILED and we
would attempt to dereference that address, segfaulting without any
real error output to the user.

We are replacing all calls to mmap() with xmmap() and moving all
MAP_FAILED checking into that single location.  If a mmap call
fails we try to release enough least-recently-used pack windows
to possibly succeed, then retry the mmap() attempt.  If we cannot
mmap even after releasing pack memory then we die() as none of our
callers have any reasonable recovery strategy for a failed mmap.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-29 11:36:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
81a361be3b Fix check_file_directory_conflict().
When replacing an existing file A with a directory A that has a
file A/B in it in the index, 'update-index --replace --add A/B'
did not properly remove the file to make room for the new
directory.

There was a trivial logic error, most likely a cut & paste one,
dating back to quite early days of git.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-17 01:14:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c33ab0dd10 git-add: remove conflicting entry when adding.
When replacing an existing file A with a directory A that has a
file A/B in it in the index, 'git add' did not succeed because
it forgot to pass the allow-replace flag to add_cache_entry().

It might be safer to leave this as an error and require the user
to explicitly remove the existing A first before adding A/B
since it is an unusual case, but doing that automatically is
much easier to use.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-17 01:14:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
790fa0e297 update-index: make D/F conflict error a bit more verbose.
When you remove a directory D that has a tracked file D/F out of the
way to create a file D and try to "git update-index --add D", it used
to say "cannot add" which was not very helpful.  This issues an extra
error message to explain the situation before the final "fatal" message.

Since D/F conflicts are relatively rare event, extra verbosity would
not make things too noisy.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-17 01:14:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2bbaaed9ee trust-executable-bit: fix breakage for symlinks
An earlier commit f28b34a broke symlinks when trust-executable-bit
is not set because it incorrectly assumed that everything was a
regular file.

Reported by Juergen Ruehle.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-22 16:36:49 -08:00
Rene Scharfe
a6e8a76770 sparse fix: non-ANSI function declaration
The declaration of discard_cache() in cache.h already has its "void".

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-18 11:40:00 -08:00
Shawn Pearce
fd28b34afd Ignore executable bit when adding files if filemode=0.
If the user has configured core.filemode=0 then we shouldn't set
the execute bit in the index when adding a new file as the user
has indicated that the local filesystem can't be trusted.

This means that when adding files that should be marked executable
in a repository with core.filemode=0 the user must perform a
'git update-index --chmod=+x' on the file before committing the
addition.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-26 22:42:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1e49cb8ad4 Merge branch 'js/c-merge-recursive'
* js/c-merge-recursive: (21 commits)
  discard_cache(): discard index, even if no file was mmap()ed
  merge-recur: do not die unnecessarily
  merge-recur: try to merge older merge bases first
  merge-recur: if there is no common ancestor, fake empty one
  merge-recur: do not setenv("GIT_INDEX_FILE")
  merge-recur: do not call git-write-tree
  merge-recursive: fix rename handling
  .gitignore: git-merge-recur is a built file.
  merge-recur: virtual commits shall never be parsed
  merge-recur: use the unpack_trees() interface instead of exec()ing read-tree
  merge-recur: fix thinko in unique_path()
  Makefile: git-merge-recur depends on xdiff libraries.
  merge-recur: Explain why sha_eq() and struct stage_data cannot go
  merge-recur: Cleanup last mixedCase variables...
  merge-recur: Fix compiler warning with -pedantic
  merge-recur: Remove dead code
  merge-recur: Get rid of debug code
  merge-recur: Convert variable names to lower_case
  Cumulative update of merge-recursive in C
  recur vs recursive: help testing without touching too many stuff.
  ...

This is an evil merge that removes TEST script from the toplevel.
2006-08-27 20:33:46 -07:00
David Rientjes
a89fccd281 Do not use memcmp(sha1_1, sha1_2, 20) with hardcoded length.
Introduces global inline:

	hashcmp(const unsigned char *sha1, const unsigned char *sha2)

Uses memcmp for comparison and returns the result based on the length of
the hash name (a future runtime decision).

Acked-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-17 14:23:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8e3abd4c97 Merge branch 'jc/racy'
* jc/racy:
  Remove the "delay writing to avoid runtime penalty of racy-git avoidance"
  Add check program "git-check-racy"
  Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
  avoid nanosleep(2)
2006-08-16 14:00:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0fc82cff12 Remove the "delay writing to avoid runtime penalty of racy-git avoidance"
The work-around should not be needed.  Even if it turns out we
would want it later, git will remember the patch for us ;-).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15 22:12:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
42f774063d Add check program "git-check-racy"
This will help counting the racily clean paths, but it should be
useless for daily use.  Do not even enable it in the makefile.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15 21:38:07 -07:00
David Rientjes
96f1e58f52 remove unnecessary initializations
[jc: I needed to hand merge the changes to the updated codebase,
 so the result needs to be checked.]

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15 21:22:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
789a09b487 avoid nanosleep(2)
On Solaris nanosleep(2) is not available in libc; you need to
link with -lrt to get it.

The purpose of the loop is to wait until the next filesystem
timestamp granularity, and the code uses subsecond sleep in the
hope that it can shorten the delay to 0.5 seconds on average
instead of a full second.  It is probably not worth depending on
an extra library for this.

We might want to yank out the whole "racy-git avoidance is
costly later at runtime, so let's delay writing the index out"
codepath later, but that is a separate issue and needs some
testing on large trees to figure it out.  After playing with the
kernel tree, I have a feeling that the whole thing may not be
worth it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15 03:39:47 -07:00
David Rientjes
968a1d65f4 read-cache.c cleanup
Removes conditional returns.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-14 18:41:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eed94a570e Merge branch 'master' into js/c-merge-recursive
Adjust to hold_lock_file_for_update() change on the master.
2006-08-12 18:35:14 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
4147d801db discard_cache(): discard index, even if no file was mmap()ed
Since add_cacheinfo() can be called without a mapped index file,
discard_cache() _has_ to discard the entries, even when
cache_mmap == NULL.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-10 14:30:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6015c28b1d read-cache: tweak racy-git delay logic
Instead of looping over the entries and writing out, use a
separate loop after all entries have been written out to check
how many entries are racily clean.  Make sure that the newly
created index file gets the right timestamp when we check by
flushing the buffered data by ce_write().

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-08 17:17:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b7e58b17b5 Racy git: avoid having to be always too careful
Immediately after a bulk checkout, most of the paths in the
working tree would have the same timestamp as the index file,
and this would force ce_match_stat() to take slow path for all
of them.  When writing an index file out, if many of the paths
have very new (read: the same timestamp as the index file being
written out) timestamp, we are better off delaying the return
from the command, to make sure that later command to touch the
working tree files will leave newer timestamps than recorded in
the index, thereby avoiding to take the slow path.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-07 01:58:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7f8508e8d3 Fix double "close()" in ce_compare_data
Doing an "strace" on "git diff" shows that we close() a file descriptor
twice (getting EBADFD on the second one) when we end up in ce_compare_data
if the index does not match the checked-out stat information.

The "index_fd()" function will already have closed the fd for us, so we
should not close it again.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-31 11:55:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c1a788acee Merge branch 'js/read-tree' into js/c-merge-recursive
* js/read-tree: (107 commits)
  read-tree: move merge functions to the library
  read-trees: refactor the unpack_trees() part
  tar-tree: illustrate an obscure feature better
  git.c: allow alias expansion without a git directory
  setup_git_directory_gently: do not barf when GIT_DIR is given.
  Build on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
  Call setup_git_directory() much earlier
  Call setup_git_directory() early
  Display an error from update-ref if target ref name is invalid.
  Fix http-fetch
  t4103: fix binary patch application test.
  git-apply -R: binary patches are irreversible for now.
  Teach git-apply about '-R'
  Makefile: ssh-pull.o depends on ssh-fetch.c
  log and diff family: honor config even from subdirectories
  git-reset: detect update-ref error and report it.
  lost-found: use fsck-objects --full
  Teach git-http-fetch the --stdin switch
  Teach git-local-fetch the --stdin switch
  Make pull() support fetching multiple targets at once
  ...
2006-07-30 23:42:10 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
11be42a476 Make git-mv a builtin
This also moves add_file_to_index() to read-cache.c. Oh, and while
touching builtin-add.c, it also removes a duplicate git_config() call.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-26 13:36:36 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
8fd2cb4069 Extract helper bits from c-merge-recursive work
This backports the pieces that are not uncooked from the merge-recursive
WIP we have seen earlier, to be used in git-mv rewritten in C.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-26 13:36:36 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
6d297f8137 Status update on merge-recursive in C
This is just an update for people being interested. Alex and me were
busy with that project for a few days now. While it has progressed nicely,
there are quite a couple TODOs in merge-recursive.c, just search for "TODO".

For impatient people: yes, it passes all the tests, and yes, according
to the evil test Alex did, it is faster than the Python script.

But no, it is not yet finished. Biggest points are:

- there are still three external calls
- in the end, it should not be necessary to write the index more than once
  (just before exiting)
- a lot of things can be refactored to make the code easier and shorter

BTW we cannot just plug in git-merge-tree yet, because git-merge-tree
does not handle renames at all.

This patch is meant for testing, and as such,

- it compile the program to git-merge-recur
- it adjusts the scripts and tests to use git-merge-recur instead of
  git-merge-recursive
- it provides "TEST", a script to execute the tests regarding -recursive
- it inlines the changes to read-cache.c (read_cache_from(), discard_cache()
  and refresh_cache_entry())

Brought to you by Alex Riesen and Dscho

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-13 23:10:19 -07:00
Pavel Roskin
a9486b02ec Avoid C99 comments, use old-style C comments instead.
This doesn't make the code uglier or harder to read, yet it makes the
code more portable.  This also simplifies checking for other potential
incompatibilities.  "gcc -std=c89 -pedantic" can flag many incompatible
constructs as warnings, but C99 comments will cause it to emit an error.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-10 00:47:13 -07:00
Florian Forster
1d7f171c3a Remove all void-pointer arithmetic.
ANSI C99 doesn't allow void-pointer arithmetic. This patch fixes this in
various ways. Usually the strategy that required the least changes was used.

Signed-off-by: Florian Forster <octo@verplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-20 01:59:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7d55561986 Merge branch 'jc/dirwalk-n-cache-tree' into jc/cache-tree
* jc/dirwalk-n-cache-tree: (212 commits)
  builtin-rm: squelch compiler warnings.
  Add builtin "git rm" command
  Move pathspec matching from builtin-add.c into dir.c
  Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index.
  builtin-add: fix unmatched pathspec warnings.
  Remove old "git-add.sh" remnants
  builtin-add: warn on unmatched pathspecs
  Do "git add" as a builtin
  Clean up git-ls-file directory walking library interface
  libify git-ls-files directory traversal
  Add a conversion tool to migrate remote information into the config
  fetch, pull: ask config for remote information
  Fix build procedure for builtin-init-db
  read-tree -m -u: do not overwrite or remove untracked working tree files.
  apply --cached: do not check newly added file in the working tree
  Implement a --dry-run option to git-quiltimport
  Implement git-quiltimport
  Revert "builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep."
  builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep.
  builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep.
  ...
2006-05-28 22:34:34 -07:00
Dennis Stosberg
ac58c7b18e git-write-tree writes garbage on sparc64
In the "next" branch, write_index_ext_header() writes garbage on a
64-bit big-endian machine; the written index file will be unreadable.
I noticed this on NetBSD/sparc64. Reproducible with:

$ git init-db
$ :>file
$ git-update-index --add file
$ git-write-tree
$ git-update-index
error: index uses  extension, which we do not understand
fatal: index file corrupt

Signed-off-by: Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-28 13:31:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
93872e0700 Merge branch 'lt/dirwalk' into jc/dirwalk-n-cache-tree
This commit is what this branch is all about.  It records the
evil merge needed to adjust built-in git-add and git-rm for
the cache-tree extension.

* lt/dirwalk:
  Add builtin "git rm" command
  Move pathspec matching from builtin-add.c into dir.c
  Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index.
  builtin-add: fix unmatched pathspec warnings.
  Remove old "git-add.sh" remnants
  builtin-add: warn on unmatched pathspecs
  Do "git add" as a builtin
  Clean up git-ls-file directory walking library interface
  libify git-ls-files directory traversal

Conflicts:

	Makefile
	builtin.h
	git.c
	update-index.c
2006-05-20 01:52:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
283c8eef6c Merge branch 'jc/cache-tree' into jc/dirwalk-n-cache-tree
* jc/cache-tree: (24 commits)
  Fix crash when reading the empty tree
  fsck-objects: do not segfault on missing tree in cache-tree
  cache-tree: a bit more debugging support.
  read-tree: invalidate cache-tree entry when a new index entry is added.
  Fix test-dump-cache-tree in one-tree disappeared case.
  fsck-objects: mark objects reachable from cache-tree
  cache-tree: replace a sscanf() by two strtol() calls
  cache-tree.c: typefix
  test-dump-cache-tree: validate the cached data as well.
  cache_tree_update: give an option to update cache-tree only.
  read-tree: teach 1-way merege and plain read to prime cache-tree.
  read-tree: teach 1 and 2 way merges about cache-tree.
  update-index: when --unresolve, smudge the relevant cache-tree entries.
  test-dump-cache-tree: report number of subtrees.
  cache-tree: sort the subtree entries.
  Teach fsck-objects about cache-tree.
  index: make the index file format extensible.
  cache-tree: protect against "git prune".
  Add test-dump-cache-tree
  Use cache-tree in update-index.
  ...
2006-05-20 00:56:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
405e5b2fe0 Libify the index refresh logic
This cleans up and libifies the "git update-index --[really-]refresh"
functionality. This will be eventually required for eventually doing the
"commit" and "status" commands as built-ins.

It really just moves "refresh_index()" from update-index.c to
read-cache.c, but it also has to change the calling convention so that the
function uses a "unsigned int flags" argument instead of various static
flags variables for passing down the information about whether to be quiet
or not, and allow unmerged entries etc.

That actually cleans up update-index.c too, since it turns out that all
those flags were really specific to that one function of the index update,
so they shouldn't have had file-scope visibility even before.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-19 15:59:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8dcf39c46e Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index.
With this one, it's now a fatal error to try to add a pathname
that cannot be added with "git add", i.e.

	[torvalds@g5 git]$ git add .git/config
	fatal: unable to add .git/config to index

and

	[torvalds@g5 git]$ git add foo/../bar
	fatal: unable to add foo/../bar to index

instead of the old "Ignoring path xyz" warning that would end up
silently succeeding on any other paths.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-18 12:07:31 -07:00
Yakov Lerner
28cc4ab422 read-cache.c: use xcalloc() not calloc()
Elsewhere we use xcalloc(); we should consistently do so.

Signed-off-by: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-09 06:28:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bad68ec924 index: make the index file format extensible.
... and move the cache-tree data into it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-24 21:24:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1af1c2b63d read-cache/write-cache: optionally return cache checksum SHA1.
read_cache_1() and write_cache_1() takes an extra parameter
*sha1 that returns the checksum of the index file when non-NULL.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-23 16:57:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7b80be150c cache_name_compare() compares name and stage, nothing else.
The code was a bit unclear in expressing what it wants to compare.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-12 23:46:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5f73076c1a "Assume unchanged" git
This adds "assume unchanged" logic, started by this message in the list
discussion recently:

	<Pine.LNX.4.64.0601311807470.7301@g5.osdl.org>

This is a workaround for filesystems that do not have lstat()
that is quick enough for the index mechanism to take advantage
of.  On the paths marked as "assumed to be unchanged", the user
needs to explicitly use update-index to register the object name
to be in the next commit.

You can use two new options to update-index to set and reset the
CE_VALID bit:

	git-update-index --assume-unchanged path...
	git-update-index --no-assume-unchanged path...

These forms manipulate only the CE_VALID bit; it does not change
the object name recorded in the index file.  Nor they add a new
entry to the index.

When the configuration variable "core.ignorestat = true" is set,
the index entries are marked with CE_VALID bit automatically
after:

 - update-index to explicitly register the current object name to the
   index file.

 - when update-index --refresh finds the path to be up-to-date.

 - when tools like read-tree -u and apply --index update the working
   tree file and register the current object name to the index file.

The flag is dropped upon read-tree that does not check out the index
entry.  This happens regardless of the core.ignorestat settings.

Index entries marked with CE_VALID bit are assumed to be
unchanged most of the time.  However, there are cases that
CE_VALID bit is ignored for the sake of safety and usability:

 - while "git-read-tree -m" or git-apply need to make sure
   that the paths involved in the merge do not have local
   modifications.  This sacrifices performance for safety.

 - when git-checkout-index -f -q -u -a tries to see if it needs
   to checkout the paths.  Otherwise you can never check
   anything out ;-).

 - when git-update-index --really-refresh (a new flag) tries to
   see if the index entry is up to date.  You can start with
   everything marked as CE_VALID and run this once to drop
   CE_VALID bit for paths that are modified.

Most notably, "update-index --refresh" honours CE_VALID and does
not actively stat, so after you modified a file in the working
tree, update-index --refresh would not notice until you tell the
index about it with "git-update-index path" or "git-update-index
--no-assume-unchanged path".

This version is not expected to be perfect.  I think diff
between index and/or tree and working files may need some
adjustment, and there probably needs other cases we should
automatically unmark paths that are marked to be CE_VALID.

But the basics seem to work, and ready to be tested by people
who asked for this feature.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-08 21:54:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4b3511b0f8 ce_smudge_racily_clean_entry: explain why it works.
This is a tricky code and warrants extra commenting.  I wasted
30 minutes trying to break it until I realized why it works.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-20 14:18:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
407c8eb0d0 Racy GIT (part #2)
The previous round caught the most trivial case well, but broke
down once index file is updated again.  Smudge problematic
entries (they should be very few if any under normal interactive
workflow) before writing a new index file out.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-20 12:12:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
29e4d36357 Racy GIT
This fixes the longstanding "Racy GIT" problem, which was pretty
much there from the beginning of time, but was first
demonstrated by Pasky in this message on October 24, 2005:

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=113014629716878

If you run the following sequence of commands:

	echo frotz >infocom
        git update-index --add infocom
        echo xyzzy >infocom

so that the second update to file "infocom" does not change
st_mtime, what is recorded as the stat information for the cache
entry "infocom" exactly matches what is on the filesystem
(owner, group, inum, mtime, ctime, mode, length).  After this
sequence, we incorrectly think "infocom" file still has string
"frotz" in it, and get really confused.  E.g. git-diff-files
would say there is no change, git-update-index --refresh would
not even look at the filesystem to correct the situation.

Some ways of working around this issue were already suggested by
Linus in the same thread on the same day, including waiting
until the next second before returning from update-index if a
cache entry written out has the current timestamp, but that
means we can make at most one commit per second, and given that
the e-mail patch workflow used by Linus needs to process at
least 5 commits per second, it is not an acceptable solution.
Linus notes that git-apply is primarily used to update the index
while processing e-mailed patches, which is true, and
git-apply's up-to-date check is fooled by the same problem but
luckily in the other direction, so it is not really a big issue,
but still it is disturbing.

The function ce_match_stat() is called to bypass the comparison
against filesystem data when the stat data recorded in the cache
entry matches what stat() returns from the filesystem.  This
patch tackles the problem by changing it to actually go to the
filesystem data for cache entries that have the same mtime as
the index file itself.  This works as long as the index file and
working tree files are on the filesystems that share the same
monotonic clock.  Files on network mounted filesystems sometimes
get skewed timestamps compared to "date" output, but as long as
working tree files' timestamps are skewed the same way as the
index file's, this approach still works.  The only problematic
files are the ones that have the same timestamp as the index
file's, because two file updates that sandwitch the index file
update must happen within the same second to trigger the
problem.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-20 00:22:28 -08:00