In cone mode, the sparse-index code path learned to remove ignored
files (like build artifacts) outside the sparse cone, allowing the
entire directory outside the sparse cone to be removed, which is
especially useful when the sparse patterns change.
* ds/sparse-index-ignored-files:
sparse-checkout: clear tracked sparse dirs
sparse-index: add SPARSE_INDEX_MEMORY_ONLY flag
attr: be careful about sparse directories
sparse-checkout: create helper methods
sparse-index: use WRITE_TREE_MISSING_OK
sparse-index: silently return when cache tree fails
unpack-trees: fix nested sparse-dir search
sparse-index: silently return when not using cone-mode patterns
t7519: rewrite sparse index test
We currently store each submodule gitdir in ".git/modules/<name>", but
this has problems with some submodule naming schemes, as described in a
comment in submodule_name_to_gitdir() in this patch.
Extract the determination of the location of a submodule's gitdir into
its own function submodule_name_to_gitdir(). For now, the problem
remains unsolved, but this puts us in a better position for finding a
solution.
This was motivated, at $DAYJOB, by a part of Android's repo hierarchy
[1]. In particular, there is a repo "build", and several repos of the
form "build/<name>".
This is based on earlier work by Brandon Williams [2].
[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180808223323.79989-2-bmwill@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we integrate the sparse index into more builtins, we occasionally
need to check the sparse-checkout patterns to see if a path is within
the sparse-checkout cone. Create some helper methods that help
initialize the patterns and check for pattern matching to make this
easier.
The existing callers of commands like get_sparse_checkout_patterns() use
a custom 'struct pattern_list' that is not necessarily the one in the
'struct index_state', so there are not many previous uses that could
adopt these helpers. There are just two in builtin/add.c and
sparse-index.c that can use path_in_sparse_checkout().
We add a path_in_cone_mode_sparse_checkout() as well that will only
return false if the path is outside of the sparse-checkout definition
_and_ the sparse-checkout patterns are in cone mode.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These functions can be useful to other parts of Git. Let's move them to
dir.c, while renaming them to be make their functionality more explicit.
Signed-off-by: Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Shourya Shukla <periperidip@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
cf2dc1c238 (speed up alt_odb_usable() with many alternates, 2021-07-07)
introduced the function fspathhash() for calculating path hashes while
respecting the configuration option core.ignorecase. Call it instead of
open-coding it; the resulting code is shorter and less repetitive.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git status" codepath learned to work with sparsely populated index
without hydrating it fully.
* ds/status-with-sparse-index:
t1092: document bad sparse-checkout behavior
fsmonitor: integrate with sparse index
wt-status: expand added sparse directory entries
status: use sparse-index throughout
status: skip sparse-checkout percentage with sparse-index
diff-lib: handle index diffs with sparse dirs
dir.c: accept a directory as part of cone-mode patterns
unpack-trees: unpack sparse directory entries
unpack-trees: rename unpack_nondirectories()
unpack-trees: compare sparse directories correctly
unpack-trees: preserve cache_bottom
t1092: add tests for status/add and sparse files
t1092: expand repository data shape
t1092: replace incorrect 'echo' with 'cat'
sparse-index: include EXTENDED flag when expanding
sparse-index: skip indexes with unmerged entries
Optimization for repositories with many alternate object store.
* ew/many-alternate-optim:
oidtree: a crit-bit tree for odb_loose_cache
oidcpy_with_padding: constify `src' arg
make object_directory.loose_objects_subdir_seen a bitmap
avoid strlen via strbuf_addstr in link_alt_odb_entry
speed up alt_odb_usable() with many alternates
When we have sparse directory entries in the index, we want to compare
that directory against sparse-checkout patterns. Those pattern matching
algorithms are built expecting a file path, not a directory path. This
is especially important in the "cone mode" patterns which will match
files that exist within the "parent directories" as well as the
recursive directory matches.
If path_matches_pattern_list() is given a directory, we can add a fake
filename ("-") to the directory and get the same results as before,
assuming we are in cone mode. Since sparse index requires cone mode
patterns, this is an acceptable assumption.
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With many alternates, the duplicate check in alt_odb_usable()
wastes many cycles doing repeated fspathcmp() on every existing
alternate. Use a khash to speed up lookups by odb->path.
Since the kh_put_* API uses the supplied key without
duplicating it, we also take advantage of it to replace both
xstrdup() and strbuf_release() in link_alt_odb_entry() with
strbuf_detach() to avoid the allocation and copy.
In a test repository with 50K alternates and each of those 50K
alternates having one alternate each (for a total of 100K total
alternates); this speeds up lookup of a non-existent blob from
over 16 minutes to roughly 2.7 seconds on my busy workstation.
Note: all underlying git object directories were small and
unpacked with only loose objects and no packs. Having to load
packs increases times significantly.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the dir_init() function and replace it with a DIR_INIT
macro. In many cases in the codebase we need to initialize things with
a function for good reasons, e.g. needing to call another function on
initialization. The "dir_init()" function was not one such case, and
could trivially be replaced with a more idiomatic macro initialization
pattern.
The only place where we made use of its use of memset() was in
dir_clear() itself, which resets the contents of an an existing struct
pointer. Let's use the new "memcpy() a 'blank' struct on the stack"
idiom to do that reset.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix-up to a topic that is already in 'master'.
* en/dir-traversal:
dir: introduce readdir_skip_dot_and_dotdot() helper
dir: update stale description of treat_directory()
Revert "dir: update stale description of treat_directory()"
Revert "dir: introduce readdir_skip_dot_and_dotdot() helper"
Many places in the code were doing
while ((d = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
if (is_dot_or_dotdot(d->d_name))
continue;
...process d...
}
Introduce a readdir_skip_dot_and_dotdot() helper to make that a one-liner:
while ((d = readdir_skip_dot_and_dotdot(dir)) != NULL) {
...process d...
}
This helper particularly simplifies checks for empty directories.
Also use this helper in read_cached_dir() so that our statistics are
consistent across platforms. (In other words, read_cached_dir() should
have been using is_dot_or_dotdot() and skipping such entries, but did
not and left it to treat_path() to detect and mark such entries as
path_none.)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation comment for treat_directory() was originally written
in 095952 (Teach directory traversal about subprojects, 2007-04-11)
which was before the 'struct dir_struct' split its bitfield of named
options into a 'flags' enum in 7c4c97c0 (Turn the flags in struct
dir_struct into a single variable, 2009-02-16). When those flags
changed, the comment became stale, since members like
'show_other_directories' transitioned into flags like
DIR_SHOW_OTHER_DIRECTORIES.
Update the comments for treat_directory() to use these flag names rather
than the old member names.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clean" and "git ls-files -i" had confusion around working on
or showing ignored paths inside an ignored directory, which has
been corrected.
* en/dir-traversal:
dir: introduce readdir_skip_dot_and_dotdot() helper
dir: update stale description of treat_directory()
dir: traverse into untracked directories if they may have ignored subfiles
dir: avoid unnecessary traversal into ignored directory
t3001, t7300: add testcase showcasing missed directory traversal
t7300: add testcase showing unnecessary traversal into ignored directory
ls-files: error out on -i unless -o or -c are specified
dir: report number of visited directories and paths with trace2
dir: convert trace calls to trace2 equivalents
Many places in the code were doing
while ((d = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
if (is_dot_or_dotdot(d->d_name))
continue;
...process d...
}
Introduce a readdir_skip_dot_and_dotdot() helper to make that a one-liner:
while ((d = readdir_skip_dot_and_dotdot(dir)) != NULL) {
...process d...
}
This helper particularly simplifies checks for empty directories.
Also use this helper in read_cached_dir() so that our statistics are
consistent across platforms. (In other words, read_cached_dir() should
have been using is_dot_or_dotdot() and skipping such entries, but did
not and left it to treat_path() to detect and mark such entries as
path_none.)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation comment for treat_directory() was originally written
in 095952 (Teach directory traversal about subprojects, 2007-04-11)
which was before the 'struct dir_struct' split its bitfield of named
options into a 'flags' enum in 7c4c97c0 (Turn the flags in struct
dir_struct into a single variable, 2009-02-16). When those flags
changed, the comment became stale, since members like
'show_other_directories' transitioned into flags like
DIR_SHOW_OTHER_DIRECTORIES.
Update the comments for treat_directory() to use these flag names rather
than the old member names.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A directory that is untracked does not imply that all files under it
should be categorized as untracked; in particular, if the caller is
interested in ignored files, many files or directories underneath the
untracked directory may be ignored. We previously partially handled
this right with DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO, but missed DIR_SHOW_IGNORED. It
was not obvious, though, because the logic for untracked and excluded
files had been fused together making it harder to reason about. The
previous commit split that logic out, making it easier to notice that
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED was missing. Add it.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The show_other_directories case in treat_directory() tried to handle
both excludes and untracked files with the same logic, and mishandled
both the excludes and the untracked files in the process, in different
ways. Split that logic apart, and then focus on the logic for the
excludes; a subsequent commit will address the logic for untracked
files.
For show_other_directories, an excluded directory means that
every path underneath that directory will also be excluded. Given that
the calling code requested to just show directories when everything
under a directory had the same state (that's what the
"DIR_SHOW_OTHER_DIRECTORIES" flag means), we generally do not need to
traverse into such directories and can just immediately mark them as
ignored (i.e. as path_excluded). The only reason we cannot just
immediately return path_excluded is the DIR_HIDE_EMPTY_DIRECTORIES flag
and the possibility that the ignored directory is an empty directory.
The code previously treated DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO in most cases as an
exception as well, which was wrong. It can sometimes reduce the number
of cases where we need to recurse (namely if
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO_MODE_MATCHING is also set), but should not be able
to increase the number of cases where we need to recurse. Fix the logic
accordingly.
Some sidenotes about possible confusion with dir.c:
* "ignored" often refers to an untracked ignore", i.e. a file which is
not tracked which matches one of the ignore/exclusion rules. But you
can also have a "tracked ignore", a tracked file that happens to match
one of the ignore/exclusion rules and which dir.c has to worry about
since "git ls-files -c -i" is supposed to list them.
* The dir code often uses "ignored" and "excluded" interchangeably,
which you need to keep in mind while reading the code.
* "exclude" is used multiple ways in the code:
* As noted above, "exclude" is often a synonym for "ignored".
* The logic for parsing .gitignore files was re-used in
.git/info/sparse-checkout, except there it is used to mark paths that
the user wants to *keep*. This was mostly addressed by commit
65edd96aec ("treewide: rename 'exclude' methods to 'pattern'",
2019-09-03), but every once in a while you'll find a comment about
"exclude" referring to these patterns that might in fact be in use
by the sparse-checkout machinery for inclusion rules.
* The word "EXCLUDE" is also used for pathspec negation, as in
(pathspec->items[3].magic & PATHSPEC_EXCLUDE)
Thus if a user had a .gitignore file containing
*~
*.log
!settings.log
And then ran
git add -- 'settings.*' ':^settings.log'
Then :^settings.log is a pathspec negation making settings.log not
be requested to be added even though all other settings.* files are
being added. Also, !settings.log in the gitignore file is a negative
exclude pattern meaning that settings.log is normally a file we
want to track even though all other *.log files are ignored.
Sometimes it feels like dir.c needs its own glossary with its many
definitions, including the multiply-defined terms.
Reported-by: Jason Gore <Jason.Gore@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Provide more statistics in trace2 output that include the number of
directories and total paths visited by the directory traversal logic.
Subsequent patches will take advantage of this to ensure we do not
unnecessarily traverse into ignored directories.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
SHA-256 transition.
* bc/hash-transition-interop-part-1:
hex: print objects using the hash algorithm member
hex: default to the_hash_algo on zero algorithm value
builtin/pack-objects: avoid using struct object_id for pack hash
commit-graph: don't store file hashes as struct object_id
builtin/show-index: set the algorithm for object IDs
hash: provide per-algorithm null OIDs
hash: set, copy, and use algo field in struct object_id
builtin/pack-redundant: avoid casting buffers to struct object_id
Use the final_oid_fn to finalize hashing of object IDs
hash: add a function to finalize object IDs
http-push: set algorithm when reading object ID
Always use oidread to read into struct object_id
hash: add an algo member to struct object_id
Builds on top of the sparse-index infrastructure to mark operations
that are not ready to mark with the sparse index, causing them to
fall back on fully-populated index that they always have worked with.
* ds/sparse-index-protections: (47 commits)
name-hash: use expand_to_path()
sparse-index: expand_to_path()
name-hash: don't add directories to name_hash
revision: ensure full index
resolve-undo: ensure full index
read-cache: ensure full index
pathspec: ensure full index
merge-recursive: ensure full index
entry: ensure full index
dir: ensure full index
update-index: ensure full index
stash: ensure full index
rm: ensure full index
merge-index: ensure full index
ls-files: ensure full index
grep: ensure full index
fsck: ensure full index
difftool: ensure full index
commit: ensure full index
checkout: ensure full index
...
Up until recently, object IDs did not have an algorithm member, only a
hash. Consequently, it was possible to share one null (all-zeros)
object ID among all hash algorithms. Now that we're going to be
handling objects from multiple hash algorithms, it's important to make
sure that all object IDs have a correct algorithm field.
Introduce a per-algorithm null OID, and add it to struct hash_algo.
Introduce a wrapper function as well, and use it everywhere we used to
use the null_oid constant.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the future, we'll want oidread to automatically set the hash
algorithm member for an object ID we read into it, so ensure we use
oidread instead of hashcpy everywhere we're copying a hash value into a
struct object_id.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before iterating over all cache entries, ensure that a sparse index is
expanded to a full index to avoid unexpected behavior.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Several methods specify that they take a 'struct index_state' pointer
with the 'const' qualifier because they intend to only query the data,
not change it. However, we will be introducing a step very low in the
method stack that might modify a sparse-index to become a full index in
the case that our queries venture inside a sparse-directory entry.
This change only removes the 'const' qualifiers that are necessary for
the following change which will actually modify the implementation of
index_name_stage_pos().
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It does not make sense to make ".gitattributes", ".gitignore" and
".mailmap" symlinks, as they are supposed to be usable from the
object store (think: bare repositories where HEAD:.mailmap etc. are
used). When these files are symbolic links, we used to read the
contents of the files pointed by them by mistake, which has been
corrected.
* jk/open-dotgitx-with-nofollow:
mailmap: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .mailmap
exclude: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .gitignore
attr: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .gitattributes
exclude: add flags parameter to add_patterns()
attr: convert "macro_ok" into a flags field
add open_nofollow() helper
Add and apply a semantic patch for converting code that open-codes
CALLOC_ARRAY to use it instead. It shortens the code and infers the
element size automatically.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use FLEX_ALLOC_STR() to allocate the `struct untracked_cache_dir`
for the root directory. Get rid of unsafe code that might fail to
initialize the `name` field (if FLEX_ARRAY is not 1). This will
make it clear that we intend to have a structure with an empty
string following it.
A problem was observed on Windows where the length of the memset() was
too short, so the first byte of the name field was not zeroed. This
resulted in the name field having garbage from a previous use of that
area of memory.
The record for the root directory was then written to the untracked-cache
extension in the index. This garbage would then be visible to future
commands when they reloaded the untracked-cache extension.
Since the directory record for the root directory had garbage in the
`name` field, the `t/helper/test-tool dump-untracked-cache` tool
printed this garbage as the path prefix (rather than '/') for each
directory in the untracked cache as it recursed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As with .gitattributes, we would like to make sure that .gitignore files
are handled consistently whether read from the index or from the
filesystem. Likewise, we would like to avoid reading out-of-tree files
pointed to by the symlinks, which could have security implications in
certain setups.
We can cover both by using open_nofollow() when opening the in-tree
files. We'll continue to follow links for core.excludesFile, as well as
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a number of callers of add_patterns() and its sibling
functions. Let's give them a "flags" parameter for adding new options
without having to touch each caller. We'll use this in a future patch to
add O_NOFOLLOW support. But for now each caller just passes 0.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A future feature will want to load the sparse-checkout patterns into a
pattern_list, but the current mechanism to do so is a bit complicated.
This is made difficult due to needing to find the sparse-checkout file
in different ways throughout the codebase.
The logic implemented in the new get_sparse_checkout_patterns() was
duplicated in populate_from_existing_patterns() in unpack-trees.c. Use
the new method instead, keeping the logic around handling the struct
unpack_trees_options.
The callers to get_sparse_checkout_filename() in
builtin/sparse-checkout.c manipulate the sparse-checkout file directly,
so it is not appropriate to replace logic in that file with
get_sparse_checkout_patterns().
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A specialization of hashmap that uses a string as key has been
introduced. Hopefully it will see wider use over time.
* en/strmap:
shortlog: use strset from strmap.h
Use new HASHMAP_INIT macro to simplify hashmap initialization
strmap: take advantage of FLEXPTR_ALLOC_STR when relevant
strmap: enable allocations to come from a mem_pool
strmap: add a strset sub-type
strmap: split create_entry() out of strmap_put()
strmap: add functions facilitating use as a string->int map
strmap: enable faster clearing and reusing of strmaps
strmap: add more utility functions
strmap: new utility functions
hashmap: provide deallocation function names
hashmap: introduce a new hashmap_partial_clear()
hashmap: allow re-use after hashmap_free()
hashmap: adjust spacing to fix argument alignment
hashmap: add usage documentation explaining hashmap_free[_entries]()
hashmap_free(), hashmap_free_entries(), and hashmap_free_() have existed
for a while, but aren't necessarily the clearest names, especially with
hashmap_partial_clear() being added to the mix and lazy-initialization
now being supported. Peff suggested we adopt the following names[1]:
- hashmap_clear() - remove all entries and de-allocate any
hashmap-specific data, but be ready for reuse
- hashmap_clear_and_free() - ditto, but free the entries themselves
- hashmap_partial_clear() - remove all entries but don't deallocate
table
- hashmap_partial_clear_and_free() - ditto, but free the entries
This patch provides the new names and converts all existing callers over
to the new naming scheme.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20201030125059.GA3277724@coredump.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Vandiver <alexmv@dropbox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nipunn Koorapati <nipunn@dropbox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We don't use the untracked_cache_dir parameter that is passed in, but
instead look at the untracked_cache_dir inside the cached_dir struct we
are passed. It's been this way since the introduction of
treat_path_fast() in 91a2288b5f (untracked cache: record/validate dir
mtime and reuse cached output, 2015-03-08).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up.
* jk/leakfix:
submodule--helper: fix leak of core.worktree value
config: fix leak in git_config_get_expiry_in_days()
config: drop git_config_get_string_const()
config: fix leaks from git_config_get_string_const()
checkout: fix leak of non-existent branch names
submodule--helper: use strbuf_release() to free strbufs
clear_pattern_list(): clear embedded hashmaps
"ls-files -o" mishandled the top-level directory of another git
working tree that hangs in the current git working tree.
* en/dir-nonbare-embedded:
dir: avoid prematurely marking nonbare repositories as matches
t3000: fix some test description typos
The dir structure seemed to have a number of leaks and problems around
it. First I noticed that parent_hashmap and recursive_hashmap were
being leaked (though Peff noticed and submitted fixes before me). Then
I noticed in the previous commit that clear_directory() was only taking
responsibility for a subset of fields within dir_struct, despite the
fact that entries[] and ignored[] we allocated internally to dir.c.
That, of course, resulted in many callers either leaking or haphazardly
trying to free these arrays and their contents.
Digging further, I found that despite the pretty clear documentation
near the top of dir.h that folks were supposed to call clear_directory()
when the user no longer needed the dir_struct, there were four callers
that didn't bother doing that at all. However, two of them clearly
thought about leaks since they had an UNLEAK(dir) directive, which to me
suggests that the method to free the data was too unclear. I suspect
the non-obviousness of the API and its holes led folks to avoid it,
which then snowballed into further problems with the entries[],
ignored[], parent_hashmap, and recursive_hashmap problems.
Rename clear_directory() to dir_clear() to be more in line with other
data structures in git, and introduce a dir_init() to handle the
suggested memsetting of dir_struct to all zeroes. I hope that a name
like "dir_clear()" is more clear, and that the presence of dir_init()
will provide a hint to those looking at the code that they need to look
for either a dir_clear() or a dir_free() and lead them to find
dir_clear().
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The calling convention for the dir API is supposed to end with a call to
clear_directory() to free up no longer needed memory. However,
clear_directory() didn't free dir->entries or dir->ignored. I believe
this was an oversight, but a number of callers noticed memory leaks and
started free'ing these. Unfortunately, they did so somewhat haphazardly
(sometimes freeing the entries in the arrays, and sometimes only
free'ing the arrays themselves). This suggests the callers weren't
trying to make sure any possible memory used might be free'd, but just
the memory they noticed their usecase definitely had allocated.
Fix this mess by moving all the duplicated free'ing logic into
clear_directory(). End by resetting dir to a pristine state so it could
be reused if desired.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 96cc8ab531 (sparse-checkout: use hashmaps for cone patterns,
2019-11-21) added some auxiliary hashmaps to the pattern_list struct,
but they're leaked when clear_pattern_list() is called.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Nonbare repositories are special directories. Unlike normal directories
that we might recurse into to list the files they contain, nonbare
repositories must themselves match and then we always report only on the
nonbare repository directory itself and not on any of its contents.
Separately, when traversing directories to try to find untracked or
excluded files, we often think in terms of paths either matching the
specified pathspec, or not matching them. However, there is a special
value that do_match_pathspec() uses named
MATCHED_RECURSIVELY_LEADING_PATHSPEC which means "this directory does
not match any pathspec BUT it is possible a file or directory underneath
it does." That special value prevents us from prematurely thinking that
some directory and everything under it is irrelevant, but also allows us
to differentiate from "this is a match".
The combination of these two special cases was previously uncovered.
Add a test to the testsuite to cover it, and make sure that we return a
nonbare repository as a non-match if the best match it got was
MATCHED_RECURSIVELY_LEADING_PATHSPEC.
Reported-by: christian w <usebees@gmail.com>
Simplified-testcase-and-bisection-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 95c11ecc73 ("Fix error-prone fill_directory() API; make it only
return matches", 2020-04-01), we taught `fill_directory()`, or more
specifically `treat_path()`, to check against any pathspecs so that we
could simplify the callers.
But in doing so, we added a slightly-too-early return for the "excluded"
case. We end up not checking the pathspecs, meaning we return
`path_excluded` when maybe we should return `path_none`. As a result,
`git status --ignored -- pathspec` might show paths that don't actually
match "pathspec".
Move the "excluded" check down to after we've checked any pathspecs.
Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up of "git clean" resulted in a fix of recent
performance regression.
* en/clean-cleanups:
clean: optimize and document cases where we recurse into subdirectories
clean: consolidate handling of ignored parameters
dir, clean: avoid disallowed behavior
dir: fix a few confusing comments
Use of negative pathspec, while collecting paths including
untracked ones in the working tree, was broken.
* en/do-match-pathspec-fix:
dir: fix treatment of negated pathspecs
dir.h documented quite clearly that DIR_SHOW_IGNORED and
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO are mutually exclusive, with a big comment to this
effect by the definition of both enum values. However, a command like
git clean -fx $DIR
would set both values for dir.flags. I _think_ it happened to work
because:
* As dir.h points out, DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS only takes effect
if DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO is set.
* As coded, I believe DIR_SHOW_IGNORED would just happen to take
precedence over DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO in the code as currently
constructed.
Which is a long way of saying "we just got lucky".
Fix clean.c to avoid setting these mutually exclusive values at the same
time, and add a check to dir.c that will throw a BUG() to prevent anyone
else from making this mistake.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
do_match_pathspec() started life as match_pathspec_depth_1() and for
correctness was only supposed to be called from match_pathspec_depth().
match_pathspec_depth() was later renamed to match_pathspec(), so the
invariant we expect today is that do_match_pathspec() has no direct
callers outside of match_pathspec().
Unfortunately, this intention was lost with the renames of the two
functions, and additional calls to do_match_pathspec() were added in
commits 75a6315f74 ("ls-files: add pathspec matching for submodules",
2016-10-07) and 89a1f4aaf7 ("dir: if our pathspec might match files
under a dir, recurse into it", 2019-09-17). Of course,
do_match_pathspec() had an important advantge over match_pathspec() --
match_pathspec() would hardcode flags to one of two values, and these
new callers needed to pass some other value for flags. Also, although
calling do_match_pathspec() directly was incorrect, there likely wasn't
any difference in the observable end output, because the bug just meant
that fill_diretory() would recurse into unneeded directories. Since
subsequent does-this-path-match checks on individual paths under the
directory would cause those extra paths to be filtered out, the only
difference from using the wrong function was unnecessary computation.
The second of those bad calls to do_match_pathspec() was involved -- via
either direct movement or via copying+editing -- into a number of later
refactors. See commits 777b420347 ("dir: synchronize
treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive()", 2019-12-19),
8d92fb2927 ("dir: replace exponential algorithm with a linear one",
2020-04-01), and 95c11ecc73 ("Fix error-prone fill_directory() API; make
it only return matches", 2020-04-01). The last of those introduced the
usage of do_match_pathspec() on an individual file, and thus resulted in
individual paths being returned that shouldn't be.
The problem with calling do_match_pathspec() instead of match_pathspec()
is that any negated patterns such as ':!unwanted_path` will be ignored.
Add a new match_pathspec_with_flags() function to fulfill the needs of
specifying special flags while still correctly checking negated
patterns, add a big comment above do_match_pathspec() to prevent others
from misusing it, and correct current callers of do_match_pathspec() to
instead use either match_pathspec() or match_pathspec_with_flags().
One final note is that DO_MATCH_LEADING_PATHSPEC needs special
consideration when working with DO_MATCH_EXCLUDE. The point of
DO_MATCH_LEADING_PATHSPEC is that if we have a pathspec like
*/Makefile
and we are checking a directory path like
src/module/component
that we want to consider it a match so that we recurse into the
directory because it _might_ have a file named Makefile somewhere below.
However, when we are using an exclusion pattern, i.e. we have a pathspec
like
:(exclude)*/Makefile
we do NOT want to say that a directory path like
src/module/component
is a (negative) match. While there *might* be a file named 'Makefile'
somewhere below that directory, there could also be other files and we
cannot pre-emptively rule all the files under that directory out; we
need to recurse and then check individual files. Adjust the
DO_MATCH_LEADING_PATHSPEC logic to only get activated for positive
pathspecs.
Reported-by: John Millikin <jmillikin@stripe.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The directory traversal code had redundant recursive calls which
made its performance characteristics exponential with respect to
the depth of the tree, which was corrected.
* en/fill-directory-exponential:
completion: fix 'git add' on paths under an untracked directory
Fix error-prone fill_directory() API; make it only return matches
dir: replace double pathspec matching with single in treat_directory()
dir: include DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS handling in treat_directory()
dir: replace exponential algorithm with a linear one
dir: refactor treat_directory to clarify control flow
dir: fix confusion based on variable tense
dir: fix broken comment
dir: consolidate treat_path() and treat_one_path()
dir: fix simple typo in comment
t3000: add more testcases testing a variety of ls-files issues
t7063: more thorough status checking
Traditionally, the expected calling convention for the dir.c API was:
fill_directory(&dir, ..., pathspec)
foreach entry in dir->entries:
if (dir_path_match(entry, pathspec))
process_or_display(entry)
This may have made sense once upon a time, because the fill_directory() call
could use cheap checks to avoid doing full pathspec matching, and an external
caller may have wanted to do other post-processing of the results anyway.
However:
* this structure makes it easy for users of the API to get it wrong
* this structure actually makes it harder to understand
fill_directory() and the functions it uses internally. It has
tripped me up several times while trying to fix bugs and
restructure things.
* relying on post-filtering was already found to produce wrong
results; pathspec matching had to be added internally for multiple
cases in order to get the right results (see commits 404ebceda0
(dir: also check directories for matching pathspecs, 2019-09-17)
and 89a1f4aaf7 (dir: if our pathspec might match files under a
dir, recurse into it, 2019-09-17))
* it's bad for performance: fill_directory() already has to do lots
of checks and knows the subset of cases where it still needs to do
more checks. Forcing external callers to do full pathspec
matching means they must re-check _every_ path.
So, add the pathspec matching within the fill_directory() internals, and
remove it from external callers.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
treat_directory() had a call to both do_match_pathspec() and
match_pathspec(). These calls have migrated through the code somewhat
since their introduction, but we don't actually need both. Replace the
two calls with one, and while at it, move the check earlier in order to
reduce the need for callers of fill_directory() to do post-filtering of
results.
The next patch will address post-filtering more forcefully and provide
more relevant history and context.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Handling DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS within treat_directory() instead of
as a post-processing step in read_directory():
* allows us to directly access and remove the relevant entries instead
of needing to calculate which ones need to be removed
* keeps the logic for directory handling in one location (and puts it
closer the the logic for stripping out extra ignored entries, which
seems logical).
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
dir's read_directory_recursive() naturally operates recursively in order
to walk the directory tree. Treating of directories is sometimes weird
because there are so many different permutations about how to handle
directories. Some examples:
* 'git ls-files -o --directory' only needs to know that a directory
itself is untracked; it doesn't need to recurse into it to see what
is underneath.
* 'git status' needs to recurse into an untracked directory, but only
to determine whether or not it is empty. If there are no files
underneath, the directory itself will be omitted from the output.
If it is not empty, only the directory will be listed.
* 'git status --ignored' needs to recurse into untracked directories
and report all the ignored entries and then report the directory as
untracked -- UNLESS all the entries under the directory are
ignored, in which case we don't print any of the entries under the
directory and just report the directory itself as ignored. (Note
that although this forces us to walk all untracked files underneath
the directory as well, we strip them from the output, except for
users like 'git clean' who also set DIR_KEEP_TRACKED_CONTENTS.)
* For 'git clean', we may need to recurse into a directory that
doesn't match any specified pathspecs, if it's possible that there
is an entry underneath the directory that can match one of the
pathspecs. In such a case, we need to be careful to omit the
directory itself from the list of paths (see commit 404ebceda0
("dir: also check directories for matching pathspecs", 2019-09-17))
Part of the tension noted above is that the treatment of a directory can
change based on the files within it, and based on the various settings
in dir->flags. Trying to keep this in mind while reading over the code,
it is easy to think in terms of "treat_directory() tells us what to do
with a directory, and read_directory_recursive() is the thing that
recurses". Since we need to look into a directory to know how to treat
it, though, it is quite easy to decide to (also) recurse into the
directory from treat_directory() by adding a read_directory_recursive()
call. Adding such a call is actually fine, IF we make sure that
read_directory_recursive() does not also recurse into that same
directory.
Unfortunately, commit df5bcdf83a ("dir: recurse into untracked dirs
for ignored files", 2017-05-18), added exactly such a case to the code,
meaning we'd have two calls to read_directory_recursive() for an
untracked directory. So, if we had a file named
one/two/three/four/five/somefile.txt
and nothing in one/ was tracked, then 'git status --ignored' would
call read_directory_recursive() twice on the directory 'one/', and
each of those would call read_directory_recursive() twice on the
directory 'one/two/', and so on until read_directory_recursive() was
called 2^5 times for 'one/two/three/four/five/'.
Avoid calling read_directory_recursive() twice per level by moving a
lot of the special logic into treat_directory().
Since dir.c is somewhat complex, extra cruft built up around this over
time. While trying to unravel it, I noticed several instances where the
first call to read_directory_recursive() would return e.g.
path_untracked for some directory and a later one would return e.g.
path_none, despite the fact that the directory clearly should have been
considered untracked. The code happened to work due to the side-effect
from the first invocation of adding untracked entries to dir->entries;
this allowed it to get the correct output despite the supposed override
in return value by the later call.
I am somewhat concerned that there are still bugs and maybe even
testcases with the wrong expectation. I have tried to carefully
document treat_directory() since it becomes more complex after this
change (though much of this complexity came from elsewhere that probably
deserved better comments to begin with). However, much of my work felt
more like a game of whackamole while attempting to make the code match
the existing regression tests than an attempt to create an
implementation that matched some clear design. That seems wrong to me,
but the rules of existing behavior had so many special cases that I had
a hard time coming up with some overarching rules about what correct
behavior is for all cases, forcing me to hope that the regression tests
are correct and sufficient. Such a hope seems likely to be ill-founded,
given my experience with dir.c-related testcases in the last few months:
Examples where the documentation was hard to parse or even just wrong:
* 3aca58045f (git-clean.txt: do not claim we will delete files with
-n/--dry-run, 2019-09-17)
* 09487f2cba (clean: avoid removing untracked files in a nested git
repository, 2019-09-17)
* e86bbcf987 (clean: disambiguate the definition of -d, 2019-09-17)
Examples where testcases were declared wrong and changed:
* 09487f2cba (clean: avoid removing untracked files in a nested git
repository, 2019-09-17)
* e86bbcf987 (clean: disambiguate the definition of -d, 2019-09-17)
* a2b13367fe (Revert "dir.c: make 'git-status --ignored' work within
leading directories", 2019-12-10)
Examples where testcases were clearly inadequate:
* 502c386ff9 (t7300-clean: demonstrate deleting nested repo with an
ignored file breakage, 2019-08-25)
* 7541cc5302 (t7300: add testcases showing failure to clean specified
pathspecs, 2019-09-17)
* a5e916c745 (dir: fix off-by-one error in match_pathspec_item,
2019-09-17)
* 404ebceda0 (dir: also check directories for matching pathspecs,
2019-09-17)
* 09487f2cba (clean: avoid removing untracked files in a nested git
repository, 2019-09-17)
* e86bbcf987 (clean: disambiguate the definition of -d, 2019-09-17)
* 452efd11fb (t3011: demonstrate directory traversal failures,
2019-12-10)
* b9670c1f5e (dir: fix checks on common prefix directory, 2019-12-19)
Examples where "correct behavior" was unclear to everyone:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190905154735.29784-1-newren@gmail.com/
Other commits of note:
* 902b90cf42 (clean: fix theoretical path corruption, 2019-09-17)
However, on the positive side, it does make the code much faster. For
the following simple shell loop in an empty repository:
for depth in $(seq 10 25)
do
dirs=$(for i in $(seq 1 $depth) ; do printf 'dir/' ; done)
rm -rf dir
mkdir -p $dirs
>$dirs/untracked-file
/usr/bin/time --format="$depth: %e" git status --ignored >/dev/null
done
I saw the following timings, in seconds (note that the numbers are a
little noisy from run-to-run, but the trend is very clear with every
run):
10: 0.03
11: 0.05
12: 0.08
13: 0.19
14: 0.29
15: 0.50
16: 1.05
17: 2.11
18: 4.11
19: 8.60
20: 17.55
21: 33.87
22: 68.71
23: 140.05
24: 274.45
25: 551.15
For the above run, using strace I can look for the number of untracked
directories opened and can verify that it matches the expected
2^($depth+1)-2 (the sum of 2^1 + 2^2 + 2^3 + ... + 2^$depth).
After this fix, with strace I can verify that the number of untracked
directories that are opened drops to just $depth, and the timings all
drop to 0.00. In fact, it isn't until a depth of 190 nested directories
that it sometimes starts reporting a time of 0.01 seconds and doesn't
consistently report 0.01 seconds until there are 240 nested directories.
The previous code would have taken
17.55 * 2^220 / (60*60*24*365) = 9.4 * 10^59 YEARS
to have completed the 240 nested directories case. It's not often
that you get to speed something up by a factor of 3*10^69.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The logic in treat_directory() is handled by a multi-case
switch statement, but this switch is very asymmetrical, as
the first two cases are simple but the third is more
complicated than the rest of the method. In fact, the third
case includes a "break" statement that leads to the block
of code outside the switch statement. That is the only way
to reach that block, as the switch handles all possible
values from directory_exists_in_index();
Extract the switch statement into a series of "if" statements.
This simplifies the trivial cases, while clarifying how to
reach the "show_other_directories" case. This is particularly
important as the "show_other_directories" case will expand
in a later change.
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Despite having contributed several fixes in this area, I have for months
(years?) assumed that the "exclude" variable was a directive; this
caused me to think of it as a different mode we operate in and left me
confused as I tried to build up a mental model around why we'd need such
a directive. I mostly tried to ignore it while focusing on the pieces I
was trying to understand.
Then I finally traced this variable all back to a call to is_excluded(),
meaning it was actually functioning as an adjective. In particular, it
was a checked property ("Does this path match a rule in .gitignore?"),
rather than a mode passed in from the caller. Change the variable name
to match the part of speech used by the function called to define it,
which will hopefully make these bits of code slightly clearer to the
next reader.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 16e2cfa909 ("read_directory(): further split treat_path()",
2010-01-08) split treat_one_path() out of treat_path(), because
treat_leading_path() would not have access to a dirent but wanted to
re-use as much of treat_path() as possible. Not re-using all of
treat_path() caused other bugs, as noted in commit b9670c1f5e ("dir:
fix checks on common prefix directory", 2019-12-19). Finally, in commit
ad6f2157f9 ("dir: restructure in a way to avoid passing around a
struct dirent", 2020-01-16), dirents were removed from treat_path() and
other functions entirely.
Since the only reason for splitting these functions was the lack of a
dirent -- which no longer applies to either function -- and since the
split caused problems in the past resulting in us not using
treat_one_path() separately anymore, just undo the split.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git sparse-checkout" learned a new "add" subcommand.
* ds/sparse-add:
sparse-checkout: allow one-character directories in cone mode
sparse-checkout: work with Windows paths
sparse-checkout: create 'add' subcommand
sparse-checkout: extract pattern update from 'set' subcommand
sparse-checkout: extract add_patterns_from_input()
In 9e6d3e64 (sparse-checkout: detect short patterns, 2020-01-24), a
condition on the minimum length of a cone-mode pattern was introduced.
However, this condition was off-by-one.
If we have a directory with a single character, say "b", then the
command
git sparse-checkout set b
will correctly add the pattern "/b/" to the sparse-checkout file. When
this is interpeted in dir.c, the pattern is "/b" with the
PATTERN_FLAG_MUSTBEDIR flag. This string has length two, which satisfies
our inclusive inequality (<= 2).
The reason for this inequality is that we will start to read the pattern
string character-by-character using three char pointers: prev, cur,
next. In particular, next is set to the current pattern plus two. The
mistake was that next will still be a valid pointer when the pattern
length is two, since the string is null-terminated.
Make this inequality strict so these patterns work.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some codepaths were given a repository instance as a parameter to
work in the repository, but passed the_repository instance to its
callees, which has been cleaned up (somewhat).
* mt/use-passed-repo-more-in-funcs:
sha1-file: allow check_object_signature() to handle any repo
sha1-file: pass git_hash_algo to hash_object_file()
sha1-file: pass git_hash_algo to write_object_file_prepare()
streaming: allow open_istream() to handle any repo
pack-check: use given repo's hash_algo at verify_packfile()
cache-tree: use given repo's hash_algo at verify_one()
diff: make diff_populate_filespec() honor its repo argument
Some rough edges in the sparse-checkout feature, especially around
the cone mode, have been cleaned up.
* ds/sparse-checkout-harden:
sparse-checkout: fix cone mode behavior mismatch
sparse-checkout: improve docs around 'set' in cone mode
sparse-checkout: escape all glob characters on write
sparse-checkout: use C-style quotes in 'list' subcommand
sparse-checkout: unquote C-style strings over --stdin
sparse-checkout: write escaped patterns in cone mode
sparse-checkout: properly match escaped characters
sparse-checkout: warn on globs in cone patterns
sparse-checkout: detect short patterns
sparse-checkout: cone mode does not recognize "**"
sparse-checkout: fix documentation typo for core.sparseCheckoutCone
clone: fix --sparse option with URLs
sparse-checkout: create leading directories
t1091: improve here-docs
t1091: use check_files to reduce boilerplate
In cone mode, the sparse-checkout feature uses hashset containment
queries to match paths. Make this algorithm respect escaped asterisk
(*) and backslash (\) characters.
Create dup_and_filter_pattern() method to convert a pattern by
removing escape characters and dropping an optional "/*" at the end.
This method is available in dir.h as we will use it in
builtin/sparse-checkout.c in a later change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In cone mode, the sparse-checkout commmand will write patterns that
allow faster pattern matching. This matching only works if the patterns
in the sparse-checkout file are those written by that command. Users
can edit the sparse-checkout file and create patterns that cause the
cone mode matching to fail.
The cone mode patterns may end in "/*" but otherwise an un-escaped
asterisk or other glob character is invalid. Add checks to disable
cone mode when seeing these values.
A later change will properly handle escaped globs.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow hash_object_file() to work on arbitrary repos by introducing a
git_hash_algo parameter. Change callers which have a struct repository
pointer in their scope to pass on the git_hash_algo from the said repo.
For all other callers, pass on the_hash_algo, which was already being
used internally at hash_object_file(). This functionality will be used
in the following patch to make check_object_signature() be able to work
on arbitrary repos (which, in turn, will be used to fix an
inconsistency at object.c:parse_object()).
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In cone mode, the shortest pattern the sparse-checkout command will
write into the sparse-checkout file is "/*". This is handled carefully
in add_pattern_to_hashsets(), so warn if any other pattern is this
short. This will assist future pattern checks by allowing us to assume
there are at least three characters in the pattern.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When core.sparseCheckoutCone is enabled, the 'git sparse-checkout set'
command creates a restricted set of possible patterns that are used
by a custom algorithm to quickly match those patterns.
If a user manually edits the sparse-checkout file, then they could
create patterns that do not match these expectations. The cone-mode
matching algorithm can return incorrect results. The solution is to
detect these incorrect patterns, warn that we do not recognize them,
and revert to the standard algorithm.
Check each pattern for the "**" substring, and revert to the old
logic if seen. While technically a "/<dir>/**" pattern matches
the meaning of "/<dir>/", it is not one that would be written by
the sparse-checkout builtin in cone mode. Attempting to accept that
pattern change complicates the logic and instead we punt and do
not accept any instance of "**".
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 777b420347 (dir: synchronize treat_leading_path() and
read_directory_recursive(), 2019-12-19) tried to add two warning
comments in those functions, pointing at each other. But the one in
treat_leading_path() just points at itself.
Let's fix that. Since the comment also redirects the reader for more
details to "the commit that added this warning", and since we're now
modifying the warning (creating a new commit without those details),
let's mention the actual commit id.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Restructure the code slightly to avoid passing around a struct dirent
anywhere, which also enables us to avoid trying to manufacture one.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I was going to title this "dir: more synchronizing of
treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive()", a nod to commit
777b420347 ("dir: synchronize treat_leading_path() and
read_directory_recursive()", 2019-12-19), but the title was too long.
Anyway, first the backstory...
fill_directory() has always had a slightly error-prone interface: it
returns a subset of paths which *might* match the specified pathspec; it
was intended to prune away some paths which didn't match the specified
pathspec and keep at least all the ones that did match it. Given this
interface, callers were responsible to post-process the results and
check whether each actually matched the pathspec.
builtin/clean.c did this. It would first prune out duplicates (e.g. if
"dir" was returned as well as all files under "dir/", then it would
simplify this to just "dir"), and after pruning duplicates it would
compare the remaining paths to the specified pathspec(s). This
post-processing itself could run into problems, though, as noted in
commit 404ebceda0 ("dir: also check directories for matching
pathspecs", 2019-09-17):
For the case of git-clean and a set of pathspecs of "dir/file" and
"more", this caused a problem because we'd end up with dir entries
for both of
"dir"
"dir/file"
Then correct_untracked_entries() would try to helpfully prune
duplicates for us by removing "dir/file" since it's under "dir",
leaving us with
"dir"
Since the original pathspec only had "dir/file", the only entry left
doesn't match and leaves nothing to be removed. (Note that if only
one pathspec was specified, e.g. only "dir/file", then the
common_prefix_len optimizations in fill_directory would cause us to
bypass this problem, making it appear in simple tests that we could
correctly remove manually specified pathspecs.)
That commit fixed the issue -- when multiple pathspecs were specified --
by making sure fill_directory() wouldn't return both "dir" and
"dir/file" outside the common_prefix_len optimization path. This is
where it starts to get fun.
In commit b9670c1f5e ("dir: fix checks on common prefix directory",
2019-12-19), we noticed that the common_prefix_len wasn't doing
appropriate checks and letting all kinds of stuff through, resulting in
recursing into .git/ directories and other craziness. So it started
locking down and doing checks on pathnames within that code path. That
continued with commit 777b420347 ("dir: synchronize
treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive()", 2019-12-19), which
noted the following:
Our optimization to avoid calling into read_directory_recursive()
when all pathspecs have a common leading directory mean that we need
to match the logic that read_directory_recursive() would use if we
had just called it from the root. Since it does more than call
treat_path() we need to copy that same logic.
...and then it more forcefully addressed the issue with this wonderfully
ironic statement:
Needing to duplicate logic like this means it is guaranteed someone
will eventually need to make further changes and forget to update
both locations. It is tempting to just nuke the leading_directory
special casing to avoid such bugs and simplify the code, but
unpack_trees' verify_clean_subdirectory() also calls
read_directory() and does so with a non-empty leading path, so I'm
hesitant to try to restructure further. Add obnoxious warnings to
treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive() to try to warn
people of such problems.
You would think that with such a strongly worded description, that its
author would have actually ensured that the logic in
treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive() did actually match
and that *everything* that was needed had at least been copied over at
the time that this paragraph was written. But you'd be wrong, I messed
it up by missing part of the logic.
Copy the missing bits to fix the new final test in t7300.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Assorted fixes to the directory traversal API.
* en/fill-directory-fixes:
dir.c: use st_add3() for allocation size
dir: consolidate similar code in treat_directory()
dir: synchronize treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive()
dir: fix checks on common prefix directory
dir: break part of read_directory_recursive() out for reuse
dir: exit before wildcard fall-through if there is no wildcard
dir: remove stray quote character in comment
Revert "dir.c: make 'git-status --ignored' work within leading directories"
t3011: demonstrate directory traversal failures
Management of sparsely checked-out working tree has gained a
dedicated "sparse-checkout" command.
* ds/sparse-cone: (21 commits)
sparse-checkout: improve OS ls compatibility
sparse-checkout: respect core.ignoreCase in cone mode
sparse-checkout: check for dirty status
sparse-checkout: update working directory in-process for 'init'
sparse-checkout: cone mode should not interact with .gitignore
sparse-checkout: write using lockfile
sparse-checkout: use in-process update for disable subcommand
sparse-checkout: update working directory in-process
sparse-checkout: sanitize for nested folders
unpack-trees: add progress to clear_ce_flags()
unpack-trees: hash less in cone mode
sparse-checkout: init and set in cone mode
sparse-checkout: use hashmaps for cone patterns
sparse-checkout: add 'cone' mode
trace2: add region in clear_ce_flags
sparse-checkout: create 'disable' subcommand
sparse-checkout: add '--stdin' option to set subcommand
sparse-checkout: 'set' subcommand
clone: add --sparse mode
sparse-checkout: create 'init' subcommand
...
When preparing a manufactured dirent instance, we add a length of
path to the size of struct to decide how many bytes to allocate.
Make sure this addition does not wrap-around to cause us
underallocate.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both the DIR_SKIP_NESTED_GIT and DIR_NO_GITLINKS cases were checking for
whether a path was actually a nonbare repository. That code could be
shared, with just the result of how to act differing between the two
cases.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our optimization to avoid calling into read_directory_recursive() when
all pathspecs have a common leading directory mean that we need to match
the logic that read_directory_recursive() would use if we had just
called it from the root. Since it does more than call treat_path() we
need to copy that same logic.
Alternatively, we could try to change treat_path to return path_recurse
for an untracked directory under the given special circumstances that
this logic checks for, but a simple switch results in many test failures
such as 'git clean -d' not wiping out untracked but empty directories.
To work around that, we'd need the caller of treat_path to check for
path_recurse and sometimes special case it into path_untracked. In
other words, we'd still have extra logic in both places.
Needing to duplicate logic like this means it is guaranteed someone will
eventually need to make further changes and forget to update both
locations. It is tempting to just nuke the leading_directory special
casing to avoid such bugs and simplify the code, but unpack_trees'
verify_clean_subdirectory() also calls read_directory() and does so with
a non-empty leading path, so I'm hesitant to try to restructure further.
Add obnoxious warnings to treat_leading_path() and
read_directory_recursive() to try to warn people of such problems.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many years ago, the directory traversing logic had an optimization that
would always recurse into any directory that was a common prefix of all
the pathspecs without walking the leading directories to get down to
the desired directory. Thus,
git ls-files -o .git/ # case A
would notice that .git/ was a common prefix of all pathspecs (since
it is the only pathspec listed), and then traverse into it and start
showing unknown files under that directory. Unfortunately, .git/ is not
a directory we should be traversing into, which made this optimization
problematic. This also affected cases like
git ls-files -o --exclude-standard t/ # case B
where t/ was in the .gitignore file and thus isn't interesting and
shouldn't be recursed into. It also affected cases like
git ls-files -o --directory untracked_dir/ # case C
where untracked_dir/ is indeed untracked and thus interesting, but the
--directory flag means we only want to show the directory itself, not
recurse into it and start listing untracked files below it.
The case B class of bugs were noted and fixed in commits 16e2cfa909
("read_directory(): further split treat_path()", 2010-01-08) and
48ffef966c ("ls-files: fix overeager pathspec optimization",
2010-01-08), with the idea being that we first wanted to check whether
the common prefix was interesting. The former patch noted that
treat_path() couldn't be used when checking the common prefix because
treat_path() requires a dir_entry() and we haven't read any directories
at the point we are checking the common prefix. So, that patch split
treat_one_path() out of treat_path(). The latter patch then created a
new treat_leading_path() which duplicated by hand the bits of
treat_path() that couldn't be broken out and then called
treat_one_path() for the remainder. There were three problems with this
approach:
* The duplicated logic in treat_leading_path() accidentally missed the
check for special paths (such as is_dot_or_dotdot and matching
".git"), causing case A types of bugs to continue to be an issue.
* The treat_leading_path() logic assumed we should traverse into
anything where path_treatment was not path_none, i.e. it perpetuated
class C types of bugs.
* It meant we had split logic that needed to kept in sync, running the
risk that people introduced new inconsistencies (such as in commit
be8a84c526, which we reverted earlier in this series, or in commit
df5bcdf83a which we'll fix in a subsequent commit)
Fix most these problems by making treat_leading_path() not only loop
over each leading path component, but calling treat_path() directly on
each. To do so, we have to create a synthetic dir_entry, but that only
takes a few lines. Then, pay attention to the path_treatment result we
get from treat_path() and don't treat path_excluded, path_untracked, and
path_recurse all the same as path_recurse.
This leaves one remaining problem, the new inconsistency from commit
df5bcdf83a. That will be addressed in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* hw/doc-in-header:
trace2: move doc to trace2.h
submodule-config: move doc to submodule-config.h
tree-walk: move doc to tree-walk.h
trace: move doc to trace.h
run-command: move doc to run-command.h
parse-options: add link to doc file in parse-options.h
credential: move doc to credential.h
argv-array: move doc to argv-array.h
cache: move doc to cache.h
sigchain: move doc to sigchain.h
pathspec: move doc to pathspec.h
revision: move doc to revision.h
attr: move doc to attr.h
refs: move doc to refs.h
remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.h
sha1-array: move doc to sha1-array.h
merge: move doc to ll-merge.h
graph: move doc to graph.h and graph.c
dir: move doc to dir.h
diff: move doc to diff.h and diffcore.h
When a user uses the sparse-checkout feature in cone mode, they
add patterns using "git sparse-checkout set <dir1> <dir2> ..."
or by using "--stdin" to provide the directories line-by-line over
stdin. This behaviour naturally looks a lot like the way a user
would type "git add <dir1> <dir2> ..."
If core.ignoreCase is enabled, then "git add" will match the input
using a case-insensitive match. Do the same for the sparse-checkout
feature.
Perform case-insensitive checks while updating the skip-worktree
bits during unpack_trees(). This is done by changing the hash
algorithm and hashmap comparison methods to optionally use case-
insensitive methods.
When this is enabled, there is a small performance cost in the
hashing algorithm. To tease out the worst possible case, the
following was run on a repo with a deep directory structure:
git ls-tree -d -r --name-only HEAD |
git sparse-checkout set --stdin
The 'set' command was timed with core.ignoreCase disabled or
enabled. For the repo with a deep history, the numbers were
core.ignoreCase=false: 62s
core.ignoreCase=true: 74s (+19.3%)
For reproducibility, the equivalent test on the Linux kernel
repository had these numbers:
core.ignoreCase=false: 3.1s
core.ignoreCase=true: 3.6s (+16%)
Now, this is not an entirely fair comparison, as most users
will define their sparse cone using more shallow directories,
and the performance improvement from eb42feca97 ("unpack-trees:
hash less in cone mode" 2019-11-21) can remove most of the
hash cost. For a more realistic test, drop the "-r" from the
ls-tree command to store only the first-level directories.
In that case, the Linux kernel repository takes 0.2-0.25s in
each case, and the deep repository takes one second, plus or
minus 0.05s, in each case.
Thus, we _can_ demonstrate a cost to this change, but it is
unlikely to matter to any reasonable sparse-checkout cone.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create an add_path_to_appropriate_result_list() function from the code
at the end of read_directory_recursive() so we can use it elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The DO_MATCH_LEADING_PATHSPEC had a fall-through case for if there was a
wildcard, noting that we don't yet have enough information to determine
if a further paths under the current directory might match due to the
presence of wildcards. But if we have no wildcards in our pathspec,
then we shouldn't get to that fall-through case.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit be8a84c526 ("dir.c: make 'git-status --ignored' work within
leading directories", 2013-04-15) noted that
git status --ignored <SOMEPATH>
would not list ignored files and directories within <SOMEPATH> if
<SOMEPATH> was untracked, and modified the behavior to make it show
them. However, it did so via a hack that broke consistency; it would
show paths under <SOMEPATH> differently than a simple
git status --ignored | grep <SOMEPATH>
would show them. A correct fix is slightly more involved, and
complicated slightly by this hack, so we revert this commit (but keep
corrected versions of the testcases) and will later fix the original
bug with a subsequent patch.
Some history may be helpful:
A very, very similar case to the commit we are reverting was raised in
commit 48ffef966c ("ls-files: fix overeager pathspec optimization",
2010-01-08); but it actually went in somewhat the opposite direction. In
that commit, it mentioned how
git ls-files -o --exclude-standard t/
used to show untracked files under t/ even when t/ was ignored, and then
changed the behavior to stop showing untracked files under an ignored
directory. More importantly, this commit considered keeping this
behavior but noted that it would be inconsistent with the behavior when
multiple pathspecs were specified and thus rejected it.
The reason for this whole inconsistency when one pathspec is specified
versus zero or two is because common prefixes of pathspecs are sent
through a different set of checks (in treat_leading_path()) than normal
file/directory traversal (those go through read_directory_recursive()
and treat_path()). As such, for consistency, one needs to check that
both codepaths produce the same result.
Revert commit be8a84c526, except instead
of removing the testcase it added, modify it to check for correct and
consistent behavior. A subsequent patch in this series will fix the
testcase.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sparse-checkout feature in "cone mode" can use the fact that
the recursive patterns are "connected" to the root via parent
patterns to decide if a directory is entirely contained in the
sparse-checkout or entirely removed.
In these cases, we can skip hashing the paths within those
directories and simply set the skipworktree bit to the correct
value.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To make the cone pattern set easy to use, update the behavior of
'git sparse-checkout (init|set)'.
Add '--cone' flag to 'git sparse-checkout init' to set the config
option 'core.sparseCheckoutCone=true'.
When running 'git sparse-checkout set' in cone mode, a user only
needs to supply a list of recursive folder matches. Git will
automatically add the necessary parent matches for the leading
directories.
When testing 'git sparse-checkout set' in cone mode, check the
error stream to ensure we do not see any errors. Specifically,
we want to avoid the warning that the patterns do not match
the cone-mode patterns.
Helped-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The parent and recursive patterns allowed by the "cone mode"
option in sparse-checkout are restrictive enough that we
can avoid using the regex parsing. Everything is based on
prefix matches, so we can use hashsets to store the prefixes
from the sparse-checkout file. When checking a path, we can
strip path entries from the path and check the hashset for
an exact match.
As a test, I created a cone-mode sparse-checkout file for the
Linux repository that actually includes every file. This was
constructed by taking every folder in the Linux repo and creating
the pattern pairs here:
/$folder/
!/$folder/*/
This resulted in a sparse-checkout file sith 8,296 patterns.
Running 'git read-tree -mu HEAD' on this file had the following
performance:
core.sparseCheckout=false: 0.21 s (0.00 s)
core.sparseCheckout=true: 3.75 s (3.50 s)
core.sparseCheckoutCone=true: 0.23 s (0.01 s)
The times in parentheses above correspond to the time spent
in the first clear_ce_flags() call, according to the trace2
performance traces.
While this example is contrived, it demonstrates how these
patterns can slow the sparse-checkout feature.
Helped-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt
to dir.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information
beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.
Also documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt is removed because
the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header files.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clean" fixes.
* en/clean-nested-with-ignored:
dir: special case check for the possibility that pathspec is NULL
clean: fix theoretical path corruption
clean: rewrap overly long line
clean: avoid removing untracked files in a nested git repository
clean: disambiguate the definition of -d
git-clean.txt: do not claim we will delete files with -n/--dry-run
dir: add commentary explaining match_pathspec_item's return value
dir: if our pathspec might match files under a dir, recurse into it
dir: make the DO_MATCH_SUBMODULE code reusable for a non-submodule case
dir: also check directories for matching pathspecs
dir: fix off-by-one error in match_pathspec_item
dir: fix typo in comment
t7300: add testcases showing failure to clean specified pathspecs
Commits 404ebceda0 ("dir: also check directories for matching
pathspecs", 2019-09-17) and 89a1f4aaf7 ("dir: if our pathspec might
match files under a dir, recurse into it", 2019-09-17) added calls to
match_pathspec() and do_match_pathspec() passing along their pathspec
parameter. Both match_pathspec() and do_match_pathspec() assume the
pathspec argument they are given is non-NULL. It turns out that
unpack-tree.c's verify_clean_subdirectory() calls read_directory() with
pathspec == NULL, and it is possible on case insensitive filesystems for
that NULL to make it to these new calls to match_pathspec() and
do_match_pathspec(). Add appropriate checks on the NULLness of pathspec
to avoid a segfault.
In case the negation throws anyone off (one of the calls was to
do_match_pathspec() while the other was to !match_pathspec(), yet no
negation of the NULLness of pathspec is used), there are two ways to
understand the differences:
* The code already handled the pathspec == NULL cases before this
series, and this series only tried to change behavior when there was
a pathspec, thus we only want to go into the if-block if pathspec is
non-NULL.
* One of the calls is for whether to recurse into a subdirectory, the
other is for after we've recursed into it for whether we want to
remove the subdirectory itself (i.e. the subdirectory didn't match
but something under it could have). That difference in situation
leads to the slight differences in logic used (well, that and the
slightly unusual fact that we don't want empty pathspecs to remove
untracked directories by default).
Denton found and analyzed one issue and provided the patch for the
match_pathspec() call, SZEDER figured out why the issue only reproduced
for some folks and not others and provided the testcase, and I looked
through the remainder of the series and noted the do_match_pathspec()
call that should have the same check.
Co-authored-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The internal code originally invented for ".gitignore" processing
got reshuffled and renamed to make it less tied to "excluding" and
stress more that it is about "matching", as it has been reused for
things like sparse checkout specification that want to check if a
path is "included".
* ds/include-exclude:
unpack-trees: rename 'is_excluded_from_list()'
treewide: rename 'exclude' methods to 'pattern'
treewide: rename 'EXCL_FLAG_' to 'PATTERN_FLAG_'
treewide: rename 'struct exclude_list' to 'struct pattern_list'
treewide: rename 'struct exclude' to 'struct path_pattern'
Users expect files in a nested git repository to be left alone unless
sufficiently forced (with two -f's). Unfortunately, in certain
circumstances, git would delete both tracked (and possibly dirty) files
and untracked files within a nested repository. To explain how this
happens, let's contrast a couple cases. First, take the following
example setup (which assumes we are already within a git repo):
git init nested
cd nested
>tracked
git add tracked
git commit -m init
>untracked
cd ..
In this setup, everything works as expected; running 'git clean -fd'
will result in fill_directory() returning the following paths:
nested/
nested/tracked
nested/untracked
and then correct_untracked_entries() would notice this can be compressed
to
nested/
and then since "nested/" is a directory, we would call
remove_dirs("nested/", ...), which would
check is_nonbare_repository_dir() and then decide to skip it.
However, if someone also creates an ignored file:
>nested/ignored
then running 'git clean -fd' would result in fill_directory() returning
the same paths:
nested/
nested/tracked
nested/untracked
but correct_untracked_entries() will notice that we had ignored entries
under nested/ and thus simplify this list to
nested/tracked
nested/untracked
Since these are not directories, we do not call remove_dirs() which was
the only place that had the is_nonbare_repository_dir() safety check --
resulting in us deleting both the untracked file and the tracked (and
possibly dirty) file.
One possible fix for this issue would be walking the parent directories
of each path and checking if they represent nonbare repositories, but
that would be wasteful. Even if we added caching of some sort, it's
still a waste because we should have been able to check that "nested/"
represented a nonbare repository before even descending into it in the
first place. Add a DIR_SKIP_NESTED_GIT flag to dir_struct.flags and use
it to prevent fill_directory() and friends from descending into nested
git repos.
With this change, we also modify two regression tests added in commit
91479b9c72 ("t7300: add tests to document behavior of clean and nested
git", 2015-06-15). That commit, nor its series, nor the six previous
iterations of that series on the mailing list discussed why those tests
coded the expectation they did. In fact, it appears their purpose was
simply to test _existing_ behavior to make sure that the performance
changes didn't change the behavior. However, these two tests directly
contradicted the manpage's claims that two -f's were required to delete
files/directories under a nested git repository. While one could argue
that the user gave an explicit path which matched files/directories that
were within a nested repository, there's a slippery slope that becomes
very difficult for users to understand once you go down that route (e.g.
what if they specified "git clean -f -d '*.c'"?) It would also be hard
to explain what the exact behavior was; avoid such problems by making it
really simple.
Also, clean up some grammar errors describing this functionality in the
git-clean manpage.
Finally, there are still a couple bugs with -ffd not cleaning out enough
(e.g. missing the nested .git) and with -ffdX possibly cleaning out the
wrong files (paying attention to outer .gitignore instead of inner).
This patch does not address these cases at all (and does not change the
behavior relative to those flags), it only fixes the handling when given
a single -f. See
https://public-inbox.org/git/20190905212043.GC32087@szeder.dev/ for more
discussion of the -ffd[X?] bugs.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The way match_pathspec_item() handles names and pathspecs with trailing
slash characters, in conjunction with special options like
DO_MATCH_DIRECTORY and DO_MATCH_LEADING_PATHSPEC were non-obvious, and
broken until this patch series. Add a table in a comment explaining the
intent of how these work.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For git clean, if a directory is entirely untracked and the user did not
specify -d (corresponding to DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO), then we usually do
not want to remove that directory and thus do not recurse into it.
However, if the user manually specified specific (or even globbed) paths
somewhere under that directory to remove, then we need to recurse into
the directory to make sure we remove the relevant paths under that
directory as the user requested.
Note that this does not mean that the recursed-into directory will be
added to dir->entries for later removal; as of a few commits earlier in
this series, there is another more strict match check that is run after
returning from a recursed-into directory before deciding to add it to the
list of entries. Therefore, this will only result in files underneath
the given directory which match one of the pathspecs being added to the
entries list.
Two notes of potential interest to future readers:
* If we wanted to only recurse into a directory when it is specifically
matched rather than matched-via-glob (e.g. '*.c'), then we could do
so via making the final non-zero return in match_pathspec_item be
MATCHED_RECURSIVELY instead of MATCHED_RECURSIVELY_LEADING_PATHSPEC.
(Note that the relative order of MATCHED_RECURSIVELY_LEADING_PATHSPEC
and MATCHED_RECURSIVELY are important for such a change.) I was
leaving open that possibility while writing an RFC asking for the
behavior we want, but even though we don't want it, that knowledge
might help you understand the code flow better.
* There is a growing amount of logic in read_directory_recursive() for
deciding whether to recurse into a subdirectory. However, there is a
comment immediately preceding this logic that says to recurse if
instructed by treat_path(). It may be better for the logic in
read_directory_recursive() to ultimately be moved to treat_path() (or
another function it calls, such as treat_directory()), but I have
left that for someone else to tackle in the future.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>