Git's background maintenance uses cron by default, but this is not
available on Windows. Instead, integrate with Task Scheduler.
Tasks can be scheduled using the 'schtasks' command. There are several
command-line options that can allow for some advanced scheduling, but
unfortunately these seem to all require authenticating using a password.
Instead, use the "/xml" option to pass an XML file that contains the
configuration for the necessary schedule. These XML files are based on
some that I exported after constructing a schedule in the Task Scheduler
GUI. These options only run background maintenance when the user is
logged in, and more fields are populated with the current username and
SID at run-time by 'schtasks'.
Since the GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER environment variable allows us to
specify 'schtasks' as the scheduler, we can test the Windows-specific
logic on other platforms. Thus, add a check that the XML file written
by Git is valid when xmllint exists on the system.
Since we use a temporary file for the XML files sent to 'schtasks', we
prefix the random characters with the frequency so it is easier to
examine the proper file during tests. Instead of an exact match on the
'args' file, we 'grep' for the arguments other than the filename.
There is a deficiency in the current design. Windows has two kinds of
applications: GUI applications that start by "winmain()" and console
applications that start by "main()". Console applications are attached
to a new Console window if they are not already associated with a GUI
application. This means that every hour the scheudled task launches a
command window for the scheduled tasks. Not only is this visually
obtrusive, but it also takes focus from whatever else the user is
doing!
A simple fix would be to insert a GUI application that acts as a shim
between the scheduled task and Git. This is currently possible in Git
for Windows by setting the <Command> tag equal to
C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe
with options "--hide --no-needs-console --command=cmd\git.exe"
followed by the arguments currently used. Since git-bash.exe is not
included in Windows builds of core Git, I chose to leave out this
feature. My plan is to submit a small patch to Git for Windows that
converts the use of git.exe with this use of git-bash.exe in the
short term. In the long term, we can consider creating this GUI
shim application within core Git, perhaps in contrib/.
Co-authored-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing mechanism for scheduling background maintenance is done
through cron. The 'crontab -e' command allows updating the schedule
while cron itself runs those commands. While this is technically
supported by macOS, it has some significant deficiencies:
1. Every run of 'crontab -e' must request elevated privileges through
the user interface. When running 'git maintenance start' from the
Terminal app, it presents a dialog box saying "Terminal.app would
like to administer your computer. Administration can include
modifying passwords, networking, and system settings." This is more
alarming than what we are hoping to achieve. If this alert had some
information about how "git" is trying to run "crontab" then we would
have some reason to believe that this dialog might be fine. However,
it also doesn't help that some scenarios just leave Git waiting for
a response without presenting anything to the user. I experienced
this when executing the command from a Bash terminal view inside
Visual Studio Code.
2. While cron initializes a user environment enough for "git config
--global --show-origin" to show the correct config file information,
it does not set up the environment enough for Git Credential Manager
Core to load credentials during a 'prefetch' task. My prefetches
against private repositories required re-authenticating through UI
pop-ups in a way that should not be required.
The solution is to switch from cron to the Apple-recommended [1]
'launchd' tool.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/ScheduledJobs.html
The basics of this tool is that we need to create XML-formatted
"plist" files inside "~/Library/LaunchAgents/" and then use the
'launchctl' tool to make launchd aware of them. The plist files
include all of the scheduling information, along with the command-line
arguments split across an array of <string> tags.
For example, here is my plist file for the weekly scheduled tasks:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0"><dict>
<key>Label</key><string>org.git-scm.git.weekly</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/local/libexec/git-core/git</string>
<string>--exec-path=/usr/local/libexec/git-core</string>
<string>for-each-repo</string>
<string>--config=maintenance.repo</string>
<string>maintenance</string>
<string>run</string>
<string>--schedule=weekly</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Day</key><integer>0</integer>
<key>Hour</key><integer>0</integer>
<key>Minute</key><integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
The schedules for the daily and hourly tasks are more complicated
since we need to use an array for the StartCalendarInterval with
an entry for each of the six days other than the 0th day (to avoid
colliding with the weekly task), and each of the 23 hours other
than the 0th hour (to avoid colliding with the daily task).
The "Label" value is currently filled with "org.git-scm.git.X"
where X is the frequency. We need a different plist file for each
frequency.
The launchctl command needs to be aligned with a user id in order
to initialize the command environment. This must be done using
the 'launchctl bootstrap' subcommand. This subcommand is new as
of macOS 10.11, which was released in September 2015. Before that
release the 'launchctl load' subcommand was recommended. The best
source of information on this transition I have seen is available
at [2]. The current design does not preclude a future version that
detects the available fatures of 'launchctl' to use the older
commands. However, it is best to rely on the newest version since
Apple might completely remove the deprecated version on short
notice.
[2] https://babodee.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/launchctl-2-0-syntax/
To remove a schedule, we must run 'launchctl bootout' with a valid
plist file. We also need to 'bootout' a task before the 'bootstrap'
subcommand will succeed, if such a task already exists.
The need for a user id requires us to run 'id -u' which works on
POSIX systems but not Windows. Further, the need for fully-qualitifed
path names including $HOME behaves differently in the Git internals and
the external test suite. The $HOME variable starts with "C:\..." instead
of the "/c/..." that is provided by Git in these subcommands. The test
therefore has a prerequisite that we are not on Windows. The cross-
platform logic still allows us to test the macOS logic on a Linux
machine.
We can verify the commands that were run by 'git maintenance start'
and 'git maintenance stop' by injecting a script that writes the
command-line arguments into GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER.
An earlier version of this patch accidentally had an opening
"<dict>" tag when it should have had a closing "</dict>" tag. This
was caught during manual testing with actual 'launchctl' commands,
but we do not want to update developers' tasks when running tests.
It appears that macOS includes the "xmllint" tool which can verify
the XML format. This is useful for any system that might contain
the tool, so use it whenever it is available.
We strive to make these tests work on all platforms, but Windows caused
some headaches. In particular, the value of getuid() called by the C
code is not guaranteed to be the same as `$(id -u)` invoked by a test.
This is because `git.exe` is a native Windows program, whereas the
utility programs run by the test script mostly utilize the MSYS2 runtime,
which emulates a POSIX-like environment. Since the purpose of the test
is to check that the input to the hook is well-formed, the actual user
ID is immaterial, thus we can work around the problem by making the the
test UID-agnostic. Another subtle issue is the $HOME environment
variable being a Windows-style path instead of a Unix-style path. We can
be more flexible here instead of expecting exact path matches.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When __git_complete was introduced, it was meant to be temporarily, while
a proper guideline for public shell functions was established
(tentatively _GIT_complete), but since that never happened, people
in the wild started to use __git_complete, even though it was marked as
not public.
Eight years is more than enough wait, let's mark this function as
public, and make it a bit more user-friendly.
So that instead of doing:
__git_complete gk __gitk_main
The user can do:
__git_complete gk gitk
And instead of:
__git_complete gf _git_fetch
Do:
__git_complete gf git_fetch
Backwards compatibility is maintained.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though the function was marked as not public, it's already used in
the wild.
We should at least test basic functionality.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
1. We should quote the argument
2. We don't need two redirections
3. A safeguard for arguments (-a) would be good
Suggested-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes the code more readable, and also will help when new code
wants to do similar checks.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user specifies a base commit to switch to, check if it actually
references a commit right away to avoid getting confused later on when
it turns out to be an invalid object.
Reported-by: LeSeulArtichaut <leseulartichaut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We trace statistics about the effectiveness of changed-path Bloom
filters since 42e50e78 (revision.c: add trace2 stats around Bloom
filter usage, 2020-04-06). Add similar tracing for the topo-walk
algorithm that uses generation numbers to limit the walk size.
This information can help investigate and describe benefits to
heuristics and other changes.
The information that is printed is in JSON format and can be formatted
nicely to present as follows:
{
"count_explort_walked":2603,
"count_indegree_walked":2603,
"count_topo_walked":473
}
Each of these values count the number of commits are visited by each of
the three "stages" of the topo-walk as detailed in b4542418 (revision.c:
generation-based topo-order algorithm, 2018-11-01).
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change all remnants of "sha1" in hash-lookup.c and .h and rename them to
reflect that we're not just able to handle SHA-1 these days.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename this function to reflect that we're not just able to handle SHA-1
these days. There are a few instances of "sha1" left in sha1-lookup.[ch]
after this, but those will be addressed in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Drop the last remnant of "sha1" in this file and rename it to reflect
that we're not just able to handle SHA-1 these days.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Generalize the last remnants of "sha" and "sha1" in this file and rename
it to reflect that we're not just able to handle SHA-1 these days.
We need to update one test to check for an updated error string.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We document the delta data as a set of instructions, but forget to
document the two sizes that precede those instructions: the size of the
base object and the size of the object to be reconstructed. Fix this
omission.
Rather than cramming all the details about the encoding into the running
text, introduce a separate section detailing our "size encoding" and
refer to it.
Reported-by: Ross Light <ross@zombiezen.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 25d5ea410f ("[PATCH] Redo rename/copy detection logic.",
2005-05-24) added a duplicate entry check on rename_src in order to
avoid segfaults; the code at the time was prone to double free()s and an
easy way to avoid it was just to turn off rename detection for any
duplicate entries. Note that the form of the check was modified two
commits ago in this series.
Similarly, commit 4d6be03b95 ("diffcore-rename: avoid processing
duplicate destinations", 2015-02-26) added a duplicate entry check
on rename_dst for the exact same reason -- the code was prone to double
free()s, and an easy way to avoid it was just to turn off rename
detection entirely. Note that the form of the check was modified in the
commit just before this one.
In the original code in both places, the code was dealing with
individual diff_filespecs and trying to match things up, instead of just
keeping the original diff_filepairs around as we do now. The
intervening change in structure has fixed the accounting problems and
the associated double free()s that used to occur, and thus we already
have a better fix. As such, we can remove the band-aid checks for
duplicate entries.
Due to the last two patches, the diffcore_rename() setup is no longer a
sizeable chunk of overall runtime. Thus, in a large rebase of many
commits with lots of renames and several optimizations to inexact rename
detection, this patch only speeds up the overall code by about half a
percent or so and is pretty close to the run-to-run variability making
it hard to get an exact measurement. However, with some trace2 regions
around the setup code in diffcore_rename() so that I can focus on just
it, I measure that this patch consistently saves almost a third of the
remaining time spent in diffcore_rename() setup.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t6016 manually reconstructs git log --graph output by using the reported
commit hashes from `git rev-parse`. Each tag is converted into an
environment variable manually, and then `echo`-ed to an expected output
file, which is in turn compared to the actual output.
The expected output is difficult to read and write, because, e.g.,
each line of output must be prefaced with echo, quoted, and properly
escaped. Additionally, the test is sensitive to trailing whitespace,
which may potentially be removed from graph log output in the future.
In order to reduce duplication, ease troubleshooting of failed tests by
improving readability, and ease the addition of more tests to this file,
port the operations to `lib-log-graph.sh`, which is already used in
several other tests, e.g., t4215. Give all merges a simple commit
message, and use a common `check_graph` macro taking a heredoc of the
expected output which does not required extensive escaping.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Russo <aerusso@aerusso.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We use various made-up config keys in the "core" section for no real
reason. Change them to work in the "section" section instead and be
careful to also change "cores" to "sections". Make sure to also catch
"Core", "CoReS" and similar.
There are a few instances that actually want to work with a real "core"
config such as `core.bare` or `core.editor`. After this, it's clearer
that they work with "core" for a reason.
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We test that we can handle `git config --file symlink` and the error
case of `git config --file symlink-to-missing-file`. For good measure,
we also throw in a test to check that we correctly handle referencing a
missing regular file. But we have such a test earlier in this script.
They both check that we fail to use `--file no-such-file --list`.
Drop the latter of these and keep the one that is in the general area
where we test `--file` and `GIT_CONFIG`. The one we're dropping also
checks that we can't even get a specific key from the missing file --
let's make sure we check that in the test we keep.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have two tests for checking that we can handle `git config --file
../other-config ...`. One, using `--file`, was introduced in 65807ee697
("builtin-config: Fix crash when using "-f <relative path>" from
non-root dir", 2010-01-26), then another, using `GIT_CONFIG`, came about
in 270a34438b ("config: stop using config_exclusive_filename",
2012-02-16).
The latter of these was then converted to use `--file` in f7e8714101
("t: prefer "git config --file" to GIT_CONFIG", 2014-03-20). Both where
then simplified in a5db0b77b9 ("t1300: extract and use
test_cmp_config()", 2018-10-21).
These two tests differ slightly in the order of the options used, but
other than that, they are identical. Let's drop one. As noted in
f7e8714101, we do still have a test for `GIT_CONFIG` and it shares the
implementation with `--file`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'gitmodules.txt' is a guide about the '.gitmodules' file that describes
submodule properties, and that file must exist at the root of the
repository. This was clarified in e5b5c1d2cf (Document clarification:
gitmodules, gitattributes, 2008-08-31).
However, that commit mistakenly uses the non-existing environment
variable 'GIT_WORK_DIR' to refer to the root of the repository.
Fix that by using the correct variable, 'GIT_WORK_TREE'. Take the
opportunity to modernize and improve the formatting of that guide,
and fix a grammar mistake.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hotfix for a topic of this cycle.
* ma/maintenance-crontab-fix:
t7900-maintenance: test for magic markers
gc: fix handling of crontab magic markers
git-maintenance.txt: add missing word
Test coverage fix.
* js/no-more-prepare-for-main-in-test:
tests: drop the `PREPARE_FOR_MAIN_BRANCH` prereq
t9902: use `main` as initial branch name
t6302: use `main` as initial branch name
t5703: use `main` as initial branch name
t5510: use `main` as initial branch name
t5505: finalize transitioning to using the branch name `main`
t3205: finalize transitioning to using the branch name `main`
t3203: complete the transition to using the branch name `main`
t3201: finalize transitioning to using the branch name `main`
t3200: finish transitioning to the initial branch name `main`
t1400: use `main` as initial branch name
"git pack-redandant" when there is only one packfile used to crash,
which has been corrected.
* jx/pack-redundant-on-single-pack:
pack-redundant: fix crash when one packfile in repo
Example of pattern file type: text+k
Text filtered through the p4 pattern regexp must be converted from
string back to bytes, otherwise 'data' command for the fast-import
will receive extra invalid characters, followed by the fast-import
process error.
CC: Yang Zhao <yang.zhao@skyboxlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Levin <dendy.ua@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows users to write hash-agnostic scripts and configs by
disabling abbreviations. Using "-c core.abbrev=40" will be
insufficient with SHA-256, and "-c core.abbrev=64" won't work with
SHA-1 repos today.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
[jc: tweaked implementation, added doc and a test]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amend the wording of documentation added in 6cfec03680 (mktag:
minimally update the description., 2007-06-10). It makes more sense to
say "when it exists" here, as we're referring to "the message".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the "mktag" documentation to refer to the input hash as just
"hash", not "sha1". This command has supported SHA-256 for a while
now.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test_export() has been self-recursive since its inception even though a
simple for-loop would have served just as well to append its arguments
to the `test_export_` variable separated by the pipe character "|".
Recently `test_export_` was changed instead to a space-separated list of
tokens to be exported, an operation which can be accomplished via a
single simple assignment, with no need for looping or recursion.
Therefore, simplify the implementation.
While at it, take advantage of the fact that variable names to be
exported are shell identifiers, thus won't be composed of special
characters or whitespace, thus simple a `$*` can be used rather than
magical `"$@"`.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'linkgit' Asciidoc macro is misspelled as 'linkit' in the
description of 'GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR' since the addition of that variable
to git(1) in 902a126eca (doc: mention GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR and
'sequence.editor' more, 2020-08-31). Also, it uses two colons instead of
one.
Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Comment did not adequately explain how the two loops work
together to achieve the goal of querying for matching of any
negative refspec.
Signed-off-by: Nipunn Koorapati <nipunn@dropbox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The logic added to check for negative pathspec match by c0192df630
(refspec: add support for negative refspecs, 2020-09-30) looks at
refspec->src assuming it is never NULL, however when
remote.origin.push is set to ":", then refspec->src is NULL,
causing a segfault within strcmp.
Tell git to handle matching refspec by adding the needle to the
set of positively matched refspecs, since matching ":" refspecs
match anything as src.
Add test for matching refspec pushes fetch-negative-refspec
both individually and in combination with a negative refspec.
Signed-off-by: Nipunn Koorapati <nipunn@dropbox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we insert our "BEGIN" and "END" markers into the cron table, it's
so that a Git version from many years into the future would be able to
identify this region in the cron table. Let's add a test to make sure
that these markers don't ever change.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On `git maintenance start`, we add a few entries to the user's cron
table. We wrap our entries using two magic markers, "# BEGIN GIT
MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE" and "# END GIT MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE". At a later
`git maintenance stop`, we will go through the table and remove these
lines. Or rather, we will remove the "BEGIN" marker, the "END" marker
and everything between them.
Alas, we have a bug in how we detect the "END" marker: we don't. As we
loop through all the lines of the crontab, if we are in the "old
region", i.e., the region we're aiming to remove, we make an early
`continue` and don't get as far as checking for the "END" marker. Thus,
once we've seen our "BEGIN", we remove everything until the end of the
file.
Rewrite the logic for identifying these markers. There are four cases
that are mutually exclusive: The current line starts a region or it ends
it, or it's firmly within the region, or it's outside of it (and should
be printed).
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a missing "a" before "bunch".
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
