Terminology to call various ref-like things are getting
straightened out.
* ps/pseudo-ref-terminology:
refs: refuse to write pseudorefs
ref-filter: properly distinuish pseudo and root refs
refs: pseudorefs are no refs
refs: classify HEAD as a root ref
refs: do not check ref existence in `is_root_ref()`
refs: rename `is_special_ref()` to `is_pseudo_ref()`
refs: rename `is_pseudoref()` to `is_root_ref()`
Documentation/glossary: define root refs as refs
Documentation/glossary: clarify limitations of pseudorefs
Documentation/glossary: redefine pseudorefs as special refs
The SubmittingPatches document now refers folks to manpages
translation project.
* jc/doc-manpages-l10n:
SubmittingPatches: advertise git-manpages-l10n project a bit
Portability updates to various uses of grep and sed.
* mt/openindiana-portability:
t/t9001-send-email.sh: sed - remove the i flag for s
t/t9118-git-svn-funky-branch-names.sh: sed needs semicolon
t/t1700-split-index.sh: mv -v is not portable
t/t4202-log.sh: fix misspelled variable
t/t0600-reffiles-backend.sh: rm -v is not portable
t/t9902-completion.sh: backslashes in echo
Switch grep from non-portable BRE to portable ERE
Expose "name conflict" error when a ref creation fails due to D/F
conflict in the ref namespace, to improve an error message given by
"git fetch".
* it/refs-name-conflict:
refs: return conflict error when checking packed refs
The trailer API has been reshuffled a bit.
* la/hide-trailer-info:
trailer unit tests: inspect iterator contents
trailer: document parse_trailers() usage
trailer: retire trailer_info_get() from API
trailer: make trailer_info struct private
trailer: make parse_trailers() return trailer_info pointer
interpret-trailers: access trailer_info with new helpers
sequencer: use the trailer iterator
trailer: teach iterator about non-trailer lines
trailer: add unit tests for trailer iterator
Makefile: sort UNIT_TEST_PROGRAMS
Windows CI running in GitHub Actions started complaining about the
order of arguments given to calloc(); the imported regex code uses
the wrong order almost consistently, which has been corrected.
* jc/compat-regex-calloc-fix:
compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3)
Updates to symbolic refs can now be made as a part of ref
transaction.
* kn/ref-transaction-symref:
refs: remove `create_symref` and associated dead code
refs: rename `refs_create_symref()` to `refs_update_symref()`
refs: use transaction in `refs_create_symref()`
refs: add support for transactional symref updates
refs: move `original_update_refname` to 'refs.c'
refs: support symrefs in 'reference-transaction' hook
files-backend: extract out `create_symref_lock()`
refs: accept symref values in `ref_transaction_update()`
The 'i' flag for the 's' command of sed is not specified by POSIX so
it is not portable. Replace its usage by different and portable
syntax.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
POSIX specifies that all editing commands between braces shall be
terminated by a <newline> or <semicolon>.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The -v option for mv is not specified by POSIX. The illumos
implementation of mv does not support -v. Since we do not need the
verbose mv output we just drop -v for mv.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The GPGSSH_GOOD_SIGNATURE_TRUSTED variable was spelled as
GOOD_SIGNATURE_TRUSTED and so the grep was used the null RE that
matches everything.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The -v option for rm is not specified by POSIX. The illumos
implementation of rm does not support -v. Since we do not need the
verbose rm output we just drop -v for rm.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usage of backslashes in echo is not portable. Since some tests
tries to output strings containing '\b' it is safer to use printf
here. The usage of printf instead of echo is also preferred by POSIX.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes the grep usage fully POSIX compliant. The ability to
enable ERE features in BRE using backslash is a GNU extension.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The project takes our AsciiDoc sources of documentation and actively
maintains the translations to various languages.
Let's give them enhanced visibility to help those who want to
volunteer find them.
Acked-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a section to explain how to work around other in-flight patches and
how to navigate conflicts which arise as a series is being iterated.
This provides the necessary steps that users can follow to reduce
friction with other ongoing topics and also provides guidelines on how
the users can also communicate this to the list efficiently.
Co-authored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The refs API lost functions that implicitly assumes to work on the
primary ref_store by forcing the callers to pass a ref_store as an
argument.
* ps/refs-without-the-repository:
refs: remove functions without ref store
cocci: apply rules to rewrite callers of "refs" interfaces
cocci: introduce rules to transform "refs" to pass ref store
refs: add `exclude_patterns` parameter to `for_each_fullref_in()`
refs: introduce missing functions that accept a `struct ref_store`
A new global "--no-advice" option can be used to disable all advice
messages, which is meant to be used only in scripts.
* jl/git-no-advice:
t0018: two small fixes
advice: add --no-advice global option
doc: add spacing around paginate options
doc: clean up usage documentation for --no-* opts
The bug went unnoticed because grep with null RE matches everything.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--exit-code" option of "git diff" command learned to work with
the "--ext-diff" option.
* rs/external-diff-with-exit-code:
diff: fix --exit-code with external diff
diff: report unmerged paths as changes in run_diff_cmd()
The "whitespace check" task that was enabled for GitHub Actions CI
has been ported to GitLab CI.
* jt/port-ci-whitespace-check-to-gitlab:
gitlab-ci: add whitespace error check
ci: make the whitespace report optional
ci: separate whitespace check script
github-ci: fix link to whitespace error
ci: pre-collapse GitLab CI sections
"git tag" learned the "--trailer" option to futz with the trailers
in the same way as "git commit" does.
* jp/tag-trailer:
builtin/tag: add --trailer option
builtin/commit: refactor --trailer logic
builtin/commit: use ARGV macro to collect trailers
The "test-tool" has been taught to run testsuite tests in parallel,
bypassing the need to use the "prove" tool.
* js/unit-test-suite-runner:
cmake: let `test-tool` run the unit tests, too
ci: use test-tool as unit test runner on Windows
t/Makefile: run unit tests alongside shell tests
unit tests: add rule for running with test-tool
test-tool run-command testsuite: support unit tests
test-tool run-command testsuite: remove hardcoded filter
test-tool run-command testsuite: get shell from env
t0080: turn t-basic unit test into a helper
Pseudorefs are not stored in the ref database as by definition, they
carry additional metadata that essentially makes them not a ref. As
such, writing pseudorefs via the ref backend does not make any sense
whatsoever as the ref backend wouldn't know how exactly to store the
data.
Restrict writing pseudorefs via the ref backend.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ref-filter interfaces currently define root refs as either a
detached HEAD or a pseudo ref. Pseudo refs aren't root refs though, so
let's properly distinguish those ref types.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `is_root_ref()` function will happily clarify a pseudoref as a root
ref, even though pseudorefs are no refs. Next to being wrong, it also
leads to inconsistent behaviour across ref backends: while the "files"
backend accidentally knows to parse those pseudorefs and thus yields
them to the caller, the "reftable" backend won't ever see the pseudoref
at all because they are never stored in the "reftable" backend.
Fix this issue by filtering out pseudorefs in `is_root_ref()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Root refs are those refs that live in the root of the ref hierarchy.
Our old and venerable "HEAD" reference falls into this category, but we
don't yet classify it as such in `is_root_ref()`.
Adapt the function to also treat "HEAD" as a root ref. This change is
safe to do for all current callers:
- `ref_kind_from_refname()` already handles "HEAD" explicitly before
calling `is_root_ref()`.
- The "files" and "reftable" backends explicitly call both
`is_root_ref()` and `is_headref()` together.
This also aligns behaviour or `is_root_ref()` and `is_headref()` such
that we stop checking for ref existence. This changes semantics for our
backends:
- In the reftable backend we already know that the ref must exist
because `is_headref()` is called as part of the ref iterator. The
existence check is thus redundant, and the change is safe to do.
- In the files backend we use it when populating root refs, where we
would skip adding the "HEAD" file if it was not possible to resolve
it. The new behaviour is to instead mark "HEAD" as broken, which
will cause us to emit warnings in various places.
As there are no callers of `is_headref()` left afer the refactoring, we
can absorb it completely into `is_root_ref()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before this patch series, root refs except for "HEAD" and our special
refs were classified as pseudorefs. Furthermore, our terminology
clarified that pseudorefs must not be symbolic refs. This restriction
is enforced in `is_root_ref()`, which explicitly checks that a supposed
root ref resolves to an object ID without recursing.
This has been extremely confusing right from the start because (in old
terminology) a ref name may sometimes be a pseudoref and sometimes not
depending on whether it is a symbolic or regular ref. This behaviour
does not seem reasonable at all and I very much doubt that it results in
anything sane.
Last but not least, the current behaviour can actually lead to a
segfault when calling `is_root_ref()` with a reference that either does
not exist or that is a symbolic ref because we never initialized `oid`,
but then read it via `is_null_oid()`.
We have now changed terminology to clarify that pseudorefs are really
only "MERGE_HEAD" and "FETCH_HEAD", whereas all the other refs that live
in the root of the ref hierarchy are just plain refs. Thus, we do not
need to check whether the ref is symbolic or not. In fact, we can now
avoid looking up the ref completely as the name is sufficient for us to
figure out whether something would be a root ref or not.
This change of course changes semantics for our callers. As there are
only three of them we can assess each of them individually:
- "ref-filter.c:ref_kind_from_refname()" uses it to classify refs.
It's clear that the intent is to classify based on the ref name,
only.
- "refs/reftable_backend.c:reftable_ref_iterator_advance()" uses it to
filter root refs. Again, using existence checks is pointless here as
the iterator has just surfaced the ref, so we know it does exist.
- "refs/files_backend.c:add_pseudoref_and_head_entries()" uses it to
determine whether it should add a ref to the root directory of its
iterator. This had the effect that we skipped over any files that
are either a symbolic ref, or which are not a ref at all.
The new behaviour is to include symbolic refs know, which aligns us
with the adapted terminology. Furthermore, files which look like
root refs but aren't are now mark those as "broken". As broken refs
are not surfaced by our tooling, this should not lead to a change in
user-visible behaviour, but may cause us to emit warnings. This
feels like the right thing to do as we would otherwise just silently
ignore corrupted root refs completely.
So in all cases the existence check was either superfluous, not in line
with the adapted terminology or masked potential issues. This commit
thus changes the behaviour as proposed and drops the existence check
altogether.
Add a test that verifies that this does not change user-visible
behaviour. Namely, we still don't want to show broken refs to the user
by default in git-for-each-ref(1). What this does allow though is for
internal callers to surface dangling root refs when they pass in the
`DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_BROKEN` flag.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename `is_special_ref()` to `is_pseudo_ref()` to adapt to the newly
defined terminology in our gitglossary(7). Note that in the preceding
commit we have just renamed `is_pseudoref()` to `is_root_ref()`, where
there may be confusion for in-flight patch series that add new calls to
`is_pseudoref()`. In order to intentionally break such patch series we
have thus picked `is_pseudo_ref()` instead of `is_pseudoref()` as the
new name.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename `is_pseudoref()` to `is_root_ref()` to adapt to the newly defined
terminology in our gitglossary(7).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Except for the pseudorefs MERGE_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD, all refs that live
in the root of the ref hierarchy behave the exact same as normal refs.
They can be symbolic refs or direct refs and can be read, iterated over
and written via normal tooling. All of these refs are stored in the ref
backends, which further demonstrates that they are just normal refs.
Extend the definition of "ref" to also cover such root refs. The only
additional restriction for root refs is that they must conform to a
specific naming schema.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify limitations that pseudorefs have:
- They can be read via git-rev-parse(1) and similar tools.
- They are not surfaced when iterating through refs, like when using
git-for-each-ref(1). They are not refs, so iterating through refs
should not surface them.
- They cannot be written via git-update-ref(1) and related commands.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Nowadays, Git knows about three different kinds of refs. As defined in
gitglossary(7):
- Regular refs that start with "refs/", like "refs/heads/main".
- Pseudorefs, which live in the root directory. These must have
all-caps names and must be a file that start with an object hash.
Consequently, symbolic refs are not pseudorefs because they do not
start with an object hash.
- Special refs, of which we only have "FETCH_HEAD" and "MERGE_HEAD".
This state is extremely confusing, and I would claim that most folks
don't fully understand what is what here. The current definitions also
have several problems:
- Where does "HEAD" fit in? It's not a pseudoref because it can be
a symbolic ref. It's not a regular ref because it does not start
with "refs/". And it's not a special ref, either.
- There is a strong overlap between pseudorefs and special refs. The
pseudoref section for example mentions "MERGE_HEAD", even though it
is a special ref. Is it thus both a pseudoref and a special ref?
- Why do we even need to distinguish refs that live in the root from
other refs when they behave just like a regular ref anyway?
In other words, the current state is quite a mess and leads to wild
inconsistencies without much of a good reason.
The original reason why pseudorefs were introduced is that there are
some refs that sometimes behave like a ref, even though they aren't a
ref. And we really only have two of these nowadays, namely "MERGE_HEAD"
and "FETCH_HEAD". Those files are never written via the ref backends,
but are instead written by git-fetch(1), git-pull(1) and git-merge(1).
They contain additional metadata that highlights where a ref has been
fetched from or the list of commits that have been merged.
This original intent in fact matches the definition of special refs that
we have recently introduced in 8df4c5d205 (Documentation: add "special
refs" to the glossary, 2024-01-19). Due to the introduction of the new
reftable backend we were forced to distinguish those refs more clearly
such that we don't ever try to read or write them via the reftable
backend. In the same series, we also addressed all the other cases where
we used to write those special refs via the filesystem directly, thus
circumventing the ref backend, to instead write them via the backends.
Consequently, there are no other refs left anymore which are special.
Let's address this mess and return the pseudoref terminology back to its
original intent: a ref that sometimes behave like a ref, but which isn't
really a ref because it gets written to the filesystem directly. Or in
other words, let's redefine pseudorefs to match the current definition
of special refs. As special refs and pseudorefs are now the same per
definition, we can drop the "special refs" term again. It's not exposed
to our users and thus they wouldn't ever encounter that term anyway.
Refs that live in the root of the ref hierarchy but which are not
pseudorefs will be further defined in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Sync with Git 2.45.1
* tag 'v2.45.1': (42 commits)
Git 2.45.1
Git 2.44.1
Git 2.43.4
Git 2.42.2
Git 2.41.1
Git 2.40.2
Git 2.39.4
fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir
core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning
init.templateDir: consider this config setting protected
clone: prevent hooks from running during a clone
Add a helper function to compare file contents
init: refactor the template directory discovery into its own function
find_hook(): refactor the `STRIP_EXTENSION` logic
clone: when symbolic links collide with directories, keep the latter
entry: report more colliding paths
t5510: verify that D/F confusion cannot lead to an RCE
submodule: require the submodule path to contain directories only
clone_submodule: avoid using `access()` on directories
submodules: submodule paths must not contain symlinks
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